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Jean Mbagurire is a Research Team Leader with the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit.

Juneweenex Mbuthia is a Research Officer in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. Her research interests include agricultural economics, gender, and climate change policy research and analysis, with a specific focus on food systems transformation, economywide analysis, computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling, social accounting matrices (SAM), and multiplier analysis. Juneweenex […]

Julia McGirr is a Senior Resource Mobilization Specialist with the Director General’s Office (DGO) Unit.

Brian McNamara is a Program Manager in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. He assists in analyzing and managing projects related to food security, nutrition, agriculture, rural development, and poverty reduction, with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. Before joining IFPRI, he researched healthcare financing at the Minnesota […]

Ruth Meinzen-Dick is a Research Fellow Emeritus in the Director General’s Office. She has extensive transdisciplinary research experience in using qualitative and quantitative research methods. Her work focuses on two broad (and sometimes interrelated) areas: how institutions affect how people manage natural resources, and the role of gender in development […]

Dawit Mekonnen is a Nonresident Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. His research interests include productivity and efficiency analysis, water economics, agricultural input systems, and impact evaluation of development projects. Dawit’s current work in sub-Saharan Africa focuses on understanding the impact of irrigation on agricultural productivity, nutrition, health, […]

Mahlet Mekuria is a Communications Officer and Acting Program Management Officer for the Ethiopia Strategy Support Program (ESSP) of the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. As Communications Officer, Mahlet develops posts for the ESSP blog and the Preparing Quarterly Newsletter and performs other communication tasks, […]

Dr. Purnima Menon is Senior Director for Food and Nutrition Policy.  She also serves as Acting Director for Transformation Strategies (as of January 2025).  In this dual role, Dr. Menon works closely with IFPRI’s Director General and IFPRI’s research unit directors to manage IFPRI’s global research strategy. Dr. Menon has […]

Ryan Miller is a Senior Digital Information Specialist in the Communication and Public Affairs Unit in Knowledge Management. He has worked on managing the DSpace institutional repository and as a library tools systems administrator.

Nicholas Minot is a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. Since joining IFPRI in 1997, he has conducted research on the impact of trade policy on poverty, agricultural market reform in Africa, value chains, income diversification, spatial patterns in poverty, high-value agriculture, food price transmission, and […]