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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Ruth Meinzen-Dick

Ruth Meinzen-Dick is a Senior Research Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. She has extensive transdisciplinary research experience in using qualitative and quantitative research methods. Her work focuses on two broad (and sometimes interrelated) areas: how institutions affect how people manage natural resources, and the role of gender in development processes. 

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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.


Jawoo Koo

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Jawoo Koo is a Senior Research Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit, part of the Transformation Strategies Department, based in Washington, DC. He has more than 20 years of experience in crop modeling, multidisciplinary geospatial analysis, and integrated modeling analyses for assessing climate and technology impacts on agrifood systems. He leads the CGIAR Research Initiative on Digital Innovation, researching pathways to bridge the digital divide, improve the quality of information systems, and strengthen local digital ecosystem capacities to realize the potential of digital technologies.

Jawoo holds a BA in agricultural biology from Korea University, Seoul, and an MS and a PhD in agricultural and biological engineering from the University of Florida.

Languages: English, Korean


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