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Who we are

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. 

Where we work

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Where we work

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


Monica Dourado

Director of Human Resources

Bio

Monica Dourado is the Human Resources Director at IFPRI. She has over 15 years of international human resources experience in the nonprofit environment. She has significant experience in talent acquisition, field office HR operations, employee relations, onboarding, performance management, hosting agreements, labor law compliance, and HR management. She has also developed HR policy manuals, worked on gender, diversity, and inclusion, and conducted various trainings. Monica holds an MBA from Salisbury University and serves as a Board Member to the Rose Women’s Foundation.