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Patrick Ward is a Nonresident Fellow with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.

James Warner is a Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, and is the Program Leader for Rwanda. He first joined IFPRI in 2013 as a Research Coordinator based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He has also been the office head of IFPRI’s Eastern and Southern Africa Office, which […]

Keith Wiebe is a Senior Research Fellow in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit and Lead of the CGIAR Research Initiative on Foresight. In addition to foresight, his areas of particular interest include climate change, natural resource management, agricultural productivity, and food security. Prior to joining IFPRI in 2013, he […]

Amanda Wyatt is a Senior Program Manager in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. She is working with the CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT), a multi-partner, multi-country research program aiming to identify transformative innovations and policies and strengthen stakeholders’ capacity toward food system […]

Hua Xie is a Research Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. He specializes in water resources and environmental systems analysis and is interested in developing and applying analytical and modeling tools to address various issues in water resources and environmental management. Topics of his research at IFPRI include […]

Valencia Wenqian Xu is a Research Analyst in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC, where she works on computable general equilibrium (CGE) and the Rural Investment and Policy Analysis (RIAPA) models. Her academic interests include value chains, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), impact investment, entrepreneurship, gender, […]

Futoshi Yamauchi is Senior Research Fellow in the Market, Trade, and Institutions Unit. His areas of specialization include human capital formation, the labor market, agriculture, rural development, social learning, and governance issues in developing countries. He has extensive field experience in Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, Kenya, Malawi, Papua […]

Basma Yassa is a Senior Research Associate with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.

Indira Yerramareddy has been with IFPRI since 2001 and has experience in strategic communications, knowledge management, and web technologies with emphasis on dissemination of research findings and best practices; bibliometrics; capacity strengthening activities; implementation of new developments in information management and innovative tools to support researchers. She has taken leadership […]

Kevin Yongongo is a Finance Officer with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.