Our Experts

Deboleena Rakshit is a Research Analyst in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit. She works on rigorous evaluation of the gendered impacts of social protection programs on resilience, health, and general well-being, with a regional focus on South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining IFPRI, she worked with Equimundo […]

Josée Randriamamonjy is a Senior Scientist in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit and has been with IFPRI since 2006. Her research topics cover the driving forces affecting the global food system, their links to agricultural production, and related policy options to better achieve the reduction of poverty, food insecurity, […]

Nitesh Ranjan is a Senior Information Technology (IT) Professional in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in the South Asia Regional Office in New Delhi, India. With more than a decade of IT industry experience, he manages and supports IT operations. Before joining IFPRI, he worked for multiple organizations, […]

Shahidur Rashid is the Director for the South Asia Office, part of the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, and is based in New Delhi. He is committed to seeing tangible change take place in South Asia. Dr. Rashid has worked on agriculture and food policy issues in Asia and Africa […]

Thomas Reardon is a University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University. Tom has been at MSU since 1992; IFPRI Research Fellow 1986-1991; Rockefeller Foundation Post-Doc with IFPRI in Burkina Faso 1984-1986; Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1984, and masters from the Université de Nice and Columbia University. Tom researches the […]

Surender Reddymalla is a Coordinator, Seed Systems, in the Agrifood Innovation and Resilience Unit, based in IFPRI’s New Delhi office. Surender coordinates the execution of seed production, storage, and distribution; supports and maintains nurseries and trials records; and monitors partner locations’ trials, seed production, and nurseries, including data collection. He […]

Dr. Danielle Resnick currently is a Senior Research Fellow in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution in the Global Economy and Development Program. Key research areas include the political economy of agricultural policy and […]

Brendan Rice is a Research Specialist in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit with experience in agribusiness, market analysis, and value chain development. He works primarily on food and input price monitoring, food crisis risk, and market intelligence for seed systems development. Before joining IFPRI, he worked at the Food […]

Claudia Ringler is the Director of the Agrifood Innovation and Resilience Unit, where she leads a global research portfolio at the intersection of nature, agricultural innovation, climate, and development. Her work focuses on shaping equitable and climate-resilient food systems through integrated, evidence‑based solutions. Dr. Ringler has 30 years of research-for-development […]

Ricky Robertson is a Research Fellow in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit. His work harnesses GIS and parallelized computation to help with research problems of a spatial nature and/or those which are prohibitively difficult to tackle using conventional computational resources, particularly in regards to the interaction between the land […]