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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.

Rock Romaric Zagré is a Senior Research Analyst in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in Dakar. He works on organization, cleaning, manipulation, and analysis of large household datasets and assists with the development and implementation of quantitative surveys, including questionnaire development, field team training, and development of software […]

Sediqa Zaki is a Research Analyst in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. Her research interests center on poverty alleviation, international trade and food price monitoring, gender-responsive policymaking, and public sector analysis. Before joining IFPRI, Sediqa worked in Afghanistan with the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), the Ministry of […]

Patricia Zambrano is a Senior Program Manager in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. She works on themes related to the economic evaluation of biotechnologies and their regulation. Previously she supported work on gene bank evaluation, genetic resources, biodiversity, intellectual property rights, R&D expenditures, and other related themes. Patricia holds […]

Tamsin Zandstra is a Research Analyst with the Director General’s Office (DGO) Unit.

Nicholus Zaw is a Research Analyst with the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit.

Solange D. Zawadi is the Country Program Manager for the IFPRI Rwanda Strategy Support Program, based in Kigali. She has over 10 years’ experience in non-profit organization leadership and project management including multistakeholder processes, capacity building, operations, and human resources management. Before joining IFPRI, Solange worked for the International Institute […]

Taddese Zerfu is a Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Together with the Ethiopian team, he coordinates the Ethiopia National Information Platforms for Nutrition (NIPN) Technical Advisory Project (ENTAP). He has conducted a modeling study using the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) software, […]