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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.

Ahmed Akhter

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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What we do

Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.

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.


Sharanya Rajiv

Research Analyst

Bio

Sharanya Rajiv is a research analyst in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. Her research focuses on governance, climate resilience, food security, and development issues in Central Asia. Prior to IFPRI, she managed grants and special projects at Atalan Tech, a startup that provides predictive analytics to mitigate burnout and turnover among providers and other healthcare workers. Previously she was a social development consultant at the World Bank office in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and worked at the New Delhi center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Sharanya holds a Master in Public Policy in Global Affairs from Yale University and a Bachelors with honors in Political Science from the University of Delhi. She also speaks Hindi, Tamil, and Russian.