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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).

Vartika Singh is a Senior Research Analyst in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit, based in New Delhi, and a Senior Research Officer at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Humboldt University in Berlin and a guest researcher at the Potsdam Institute for […]

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 […]

Edwin Siyame is a Research Analyst in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in IFPRI’s Malawi office, where he supports the IFPRI team in conducting research on various issues to generate evidence to influence policy changes and reviews. Edwin has worked with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the […]

Jenny (Cairns) Smart is a Senior Program Manager in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, based in Washington, DC. She is the Senior Program Manager for the IFPRI-led CGIAR Initiative on Fragility, Conflict and Migration and supports the ILRI-led CGIAR Initiative on Gender Equality. Prior to this, Jenny was Senior […]

Jie Song joined IFPRI in July 2018 as a Research Analyst in the Development Strategy and Governance Division (DSGD). Prior to joining IFPRI, Jie worked with the Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation (gui2de) in Tanzania on the evaluation of Tanzania’s education reform and interned at the World […]