Hiroyuki Takeshima is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit in Washington, DC, and has worked in IFPRI’s Nigeria office. His research focuses on agricultural technology adoption including agricultural mechanization, seed and varietal technologies, agrifood system transformation and rural economic transformation, public investments, and agriculture-nutrition linkages. His work covers Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia. Hiroyuki is a co-editor of two IFPRI books, The Nigerian Rice Economy: Policy Options for Transforming Production, Marketing, and Trade and An Evolving Paradigm of Agricultural Mechanization Development: How Much Can Africa Learn from Asia?. He is also the 2018 recipient of the Nils Westermarck Award of the International Association of Agricultural Economics. He obtained a PhD in Agriculture & Consumer Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.