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Adnaan Azeez Shah is a Research Analyst, Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in New Delhi, India. He specializes in econometric analysis, impact evaluation, and behavioral economics, with expertise in experimental methodology, policy evaluation, and advanced data analysis using R, Python, and Stata. Adnaan has prior experience analyzing housing policy […]

Nabila Afrin Shaima is a Research Assistant in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. She joined IFPRI in 2018 under the Integrated Food Policy Research Program in Bangladesh. Her research interests focus on environmental development and social sciences. She hopes to function as a change agent and initiate, promote, and […]

Kriti Sharma is a Research Analyst in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit in IFPRI’s South Asia Office in New Delhi, India. Her research interests include growth, development, and agricultural economics. Currently, she is working on adoption and impact of emerging technologies in agriculture in addition to other related topics. […]

Weilun Shi is a Research Analyst with the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit.

Nada is a Research Associate. Before Joining IFPRI, she worked as an Economist at Towson University’s Regional Economic Studies Institute (RESI) in Maryland, USA. She has also worked as a Consultant for both IFPRI and the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES) as well as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in […]

Khalid Siddig is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit and Program Leader for the Sudan Strategy Support Program. He is an agricultural economist with a focus on examining the impacts of potential shocks and the allocation of resources on economic growth, environmental sustainability, and income […]

Ester Jimmy Simfukwe is the project associate at HarvestPlus hosted by Alliance Bioversity International & CIAT Tanzania, working on the commercialization of biofortified crops in the country. Previous to HarvestPlus, she worked with World Vegetable Center as Coordinator – Legume Agronomist; and before that as an agronomist with the One […]

Sonjida Mesket Simi is a Research Analyst in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Before joining IFPRI, she worked with International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B).

Tushar Singh is a Senior Research Analyst in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. He has experience in agricultural research and impact evaluation and most recently worked for Precision Development (PxD), where he was responsible for implementing randomized controlled trials focused on mobile-phone-based agricultural extension systems. He holds a BA […]

Vartika Singh is an Associate Research Fellow in the Agrifood Innovation and Resilience (AIR) Unit.  She works on sustainable food systems, agricultural policy, and equitable climate action with a focus on South Asia. Her research examines pathways for sustainable transformation using integrated assessment modeling to analyze interactions across food, land, […]