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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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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.

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Foresight and Policy Modeling

Valencia Wenqian Xu

Research Analyst

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Valencia Wenqian Xu is a Research Analyst in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC, where she works on computable general equilibrium (CGE) and the Rural Investment and Policy Analysis (RIAPA) models. Her academic interests include value chains, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), impact investment, entrepreneurship, gender, and climate.

Before joining IFPRI, Wenqian worked as a social entrepreneur and impact investor across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. She holds an MPA in economic and political development from Columbia University and a BBA in entrepreneurship, design, and innovation from the University of Hong Kong.

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