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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 […]

Sherman Robinson is a Research Fellow Emeritus in the Director General’s Office and Professor of Economics (retired), University of Sussex. He served as the Director of  IFPRI’s Trade and Macroeconomics Division from 1993 to 2004, and as an and Institute Fellow. He later rejoined IFPRI as a Senior Research Fellow […]

Mark W. Rosegrant is a Research Fellow Emeritus in the Director General’s Office. He  previously served as Director of IFPRI’s Environment and Production Technology Division. Dr. Rosegrant has extensive experience in research and policy analysis in agriculture and economic development, with an emphasis on water resources and other natural resource and […]

Shalini Roy is a Senior Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit. Her research focuses on the relationship between households’ economic behavior and social protection, nutrition, agriculture, gender, and early childhood development. Much of her work is based on impact evaluations of development programming, with a particular interest […]

Devesh Roy, an Indian national, is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. His areas of expertise include international trade, environment, firm-farm linkages, and food safety. He has recently been involved in research related to the economics of animal disease outbreaks. He also conducts research on issues […]

Marie T. Ruel is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. She was the Director of IFPRI’s Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division from 2004 to 2023, after serving as Senior Research Fellow and Research Fellow in that division beginning in 1996. She led the Multi-Country Program […]

Pascale Sabbagh serves as Special Assistant to IFPRI’s Director General and Secretary to IFPRI’s Senior Management Team. She has held various positions at IFPRI and CGIAR since 2010: Research Analyst, Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI (2010–2011); Senior Program Manager, CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (2011–2021); Special […]

Abdul Zabbar Sakil is a Research Analyst in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit, based in Dhaka. Sakil has expertise in handling large-scale, intricate survey data; survey management and questionnaire development; and in evaluating government policies. His research interests focus on food security, poverty, and labor economics. Before joining IFPRI, […]

Esha Sarswat is a Senior Communications Specialist in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health unit, based in New Delhi. She currently works for South Asia Nutrition Knowledge Network, an initiative to support use of data and evidence for nutrition in South Asia and the communications point of contact for CGIAR initiative […]

Emily Schmidt is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. Her research focuses on the intersection of development economics and geographic information systems (GIS) with an emphasis on the dynamic process of rural land transformation, rural employment diversification, and agricultural production outcomes on household welfare. Her […]