Our Experts

Asraul Khan is a Research Analyst with the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit.

Soonho Kim is a Senior Data Manager in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. Prior to joining IFPRI, Soonho worked as an Information Management Specialist in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for six years. She holds a BA in Agricultural Biology from Korea University, Seoul, Korea, and […]

Sunny S. Kim is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit who first joined IFPRI as a postdoctoral fellow in 2012. Her key research areas include maternal, adolescent, and child health and nutrition; social and behavior change; and intervention coverage measurement. She has conducted impact and […]

Faith Kimaiyo is a Research Officer in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her research work mostly involves impact evaluation methods and focuses on food and nutrition, agricultural transformation, and social protection. Together with her colleagues, Faith has drafted several reports, blogs, and research papers. She […]

Dickson Kinuthia is a Research Officer in the Agrifood Innovation and Resilience Unit. His research interests are in building resilient agricultural and food systems, participatory approaches to agricultural transformation, value chain development, and digitizing agricultural data. Dickson worked as an agricultural trade researcher at the Finance Trade and Investment Network […]

Oliver Kiptoo Kirui is a Research Fellow and Acting Program Leader for Nigeria in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Abuja, Nigeria, where he supports the development of research-based policy solutions; coalition-building for policy change; co-creating innovative analytical tools in close collaboration with several partners. Oliver conducts and […]

Avinash Kishore is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in IFPRI’s South Asia Office in New Delhi. His research focuses on understanding how public policies and markets affect the adoption and non-adoption of sustainable technologies and practices in agriculture in South Asia. He leads […]

Jawoo Koo is a Senior Research Fellow in the Agrifood Innovation and Resilience Unit, based in Washington, DC. He has more than 20 years of experience in crop modeling, multidisciplinary geospatial analysis, and integrated modeling analyses for assessing climate and technology impacts on agrifood systems. He co-led the CGIAR Platform […]

Josphat Kiplangat Korir is a Research Officer, Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Nairobi, Kenya. He leads and contributes to rigorous research design, mixed-methods impact evaluations, and policy-relevant analyses to inform strategies for resilience, inclusive growth, and rural transformation. Josphat has more than a decade of experience designing and […]

Katrina Kosec is a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit and a Lecturer in Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University. She received her Ph.D. in Political Economics and her M.A. in Economics from Stanford University, where she was […]