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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 […]

Samuel Scott is a Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. With IFPRI since 2016, he conducts applied nutrition research in the South Asia region. He has experience working on iron deficiency and anemia, adolescent health, biofortification, human functional outcomes such as cognition, behavior change communication strategies, women’s […]

Sokhna Sall Seck is a Senior Communications Specialist in the within the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in the IFPRI Dakar office. She plays a leading role in supporting communications for the office, contributing to the design and implementation of strategic communication and outreach initiatives to enhance the visibility […]

Debdatta Sengupta is a Program Manager with the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit.