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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.

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Akhter Ahmed

Akhter Ahmed is a Senior Research Fellow in the IFPRI’s Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit and Country Representative for IFPRI Bangladesh. He has worked on strategies for agricultural and rural development, social protection, and women’s empowerment to reduce poverty, food insecurity, and undernutrition in developing countries including Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Malawi, the Philippines, and Turkey.

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Nutrition, Diets, and Health

José Luis Torres Chávez

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José Luis Torres Chávez is a Research Analyst in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in Washington, DC. José Luis currently works on an initiative designed to achieve healthy diets, good nutrition, and health in Tanzania and Sri Lanka. He specializes in quantitative research and has worked on issues related to poverty, social protection, women’s empowerment, and food environments.

José Luis, a Mexican citizen, holds a BA in economics and an MA in applied economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico.

Languages: Spanish, English

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