Kamiljon Akramov is a Senior Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Development Strategies and Governance Unit. He conducts research on agriculture, food security, and development policy issues using applied econometric analysis. His primary areas of interest are institutional change, agricultural development, and food security in Central Asia. His research also focuses on governance, aid effectiveness, decentralization, and efficiency of service delivery in transitional and developing countries.

Before joining IFPRI, Kamiljon was a doctoral fellow at the Pardee RAND Graduate School where he obtained his PhD in Economic Policy Analysis, a consultant for the Asian Development Bank on governance and regional cooperation, and a director of the Monetary Policy Research Center at the Central Bank of Uzbekistan. He also holds a master’s degree in Development Economics from Williams College, Massachusetts.