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Ara Go is a Senior Program Manager in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit. She coordinates research, technical assistance, and capacity strengthening activities for projects on gender, women’s empowerment, and nutrition-sensitive social protection. Before joining IFPRI, Ara worked with the United States Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Food Security […]

Mahalingam Govindaraj is a Senior Scientist in the HarvestPlus program, Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. As a crop development specialist, he manages the biofortification crop development research network and builds research capacities for biofortification mainstreaming. His efforts and more than 14 years of experience in crop improvement have been instrumental […]

Zhe Guo is a Senior GIS Coordinator with the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit.

Monali Gupta is a Research Analyst with the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit.

Shweta Gupta is a Senior Research Analyst in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit, working primarily on the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) project. She also works on the CGIAR Research Initiative on Transformational Agroecology across Food, Land, and Water Systems. She previously worked with India’s Ministry of […]

John Hanly is a Head, IT Services with the Finance and Administration Unit.

Faaiqa’s latest article, “Estimating the Distributive Impacts of Climate Mitigation Policies in the Power Sector in Ghana,” has been published in the Energy for Sustainable Development journal. You can read the full article by accessing it through the SHARE link here: [https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1kBKT3TGDq90Xd].

Ganna Hassan is a Research Assistant with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.

Derek Headey is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, where he has worked since 2008. A development economist, his research chiefly focuses on agricultural development and nutrition, though he has also worked on economic growth, food security, and poverty reduction issues. He was the Principal […]

Charlotte Hebebrand is the Director of Communications and Public Affairs. She has extensive experience researching as well as writing and communicating about food and agricultural policy topics. Charlotte served most recently as Director General of the Paris-based International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA), a 500+ member association composed of different companies in […]