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Theingi Oo is a Research Analyst with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.

Antonate Owuor is a Research Officer at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), based in Nairobi, Kenya. She holds an MSc in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Nairobi. Her work focuses on supporting research on climate resilience and the adoption of agricultural innovations and digital services, […]

Vanshika Pahwa is a Research Analyst with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.

Aklima Parvin is a Senior Project Manager in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in Dhaka. She has more than 19 years of program management experience in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating large-scale, complex, integrated nutrition-sensitive agriculture and social protection projects in Bangladesh. She has worked on nutrition and […]

Karl Pauw is a Senior Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit based in Washington, DC, where he co-leads the country modeling team, and works on a wide range of development and agricultural policy issues. He previously led IFPRI’s country programs in Accra, Ghana (2018–2020), and Lilongwe, Malawi […]

Flor Paz is a Senior Research Analyst with the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit.

Cynthia Paz is a Senior Research Analyst with the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit.

Valeria Piñeiro is the Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Senior Research Fellow in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. Her recent work includes modeling the impacts of agricultural support policies on emissions from agriculture and reviewing the evidence on incentives for the adoption of sustainable […]

Leigh Plummer is a Senior Library and Information Specialist in the Communications and Public Affairs Unit based in Washington, DC. She manages the CGSpace-IFPRI Repository and the research outreach efforts. She tracks usage of IFPRI’s research and reports this information internally. She received a Bachelors of Art degree from DePauw […]

Olufemi Adebola Popoola is a Research Analyst in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Abuja, Nigeria. He is also a member of the African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE).He is skilled in research design, data collection and analysis, report writing, and research-policy linkages. His research interests focus on […]