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Amanda Wyatt is a Senior Program Manager in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. She is working with the CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT), a multi-partner, multi-country research program aiming to identify transformative innovations and policies and strengthen stakeholders’ capacity toward food system […]

Hua Xie is a Research Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. He specializes in water resources and environmental systems analysis and is interested in developing and applying analytical and modeling tools to address various issues in water resources and environmental management. Topics of his research at IFPRI include […]

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, […]

Futoshi Yamauchi is Senior Research Fellow in the Market, Trade, and Institutions Unit. His areas of specialization include human capital formation, the labor market, agriculture, rural development, social learning, and governance issues in developing countries. He has extensive field experience in Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, Kenya, Malawi, Papua […]

Basma Yassa is a Senior Research Associate with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.

Indira Yerramareddy has been with IFPRI since 2001 and has experience in strategic communications, knowledge management, and web technologies with emphasis on dissemination of research findings and best practices; bibliometrics; capacity strengthening activities; implementation of new developments in information management and innovative tools to support researchers. She has taken leadership […]

Kevin Yongongo is a Finance Officer with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.

Sivan Yosef is a Senior Program Manager in the Director General’s Office. She has worked on Nourishing Millions: Stories of Change in Nutrition, the 2020 Vision Initiative, the Global Food Policy Report, Transform Nutrition, LANSA, the Millions Fed project, the IFPRI 2013–2018 strategy, and the 2020 conferences “Leveraging Agriculture for […]

Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow and theme leader in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on climate resilience, spatial data and analytics, agroecosystems, and agricultural science policy. Gridded crop production data of the world (SPAM) and the agricultural technology evaluation model […]

Sarim Zafar is a Research Analyst with the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit.