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With research staff from more than 70 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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David Spielman is the director of IFPRI’s Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit and has been with the institute since 2004. His research agenda covers a range of topics including agriculture and rural development policy; agricultural science, technology, and innovation; plant genetic resources and seed systems; agricultural extension and advisory services; and community-driven rural development.

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Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.

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IFPRI currently has more than 480 employees working in over 70 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

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  • Sydney Honeycutt

    Research Analyst

    Sydney Honeycutt is a Research Analyst with the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit.


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    May Thet Htar

    Research Analyst

    May Thet Htar holds a Master’s degree specialized in Agribusiness and has previously worked as the head of market research at a leading agribusiness group in Myanmar. She has collaborated with Yezin Agricultural University on several research projects. In 2022, she has won best paper award at Asia Pacific Journal […]


  • Iván Mauricio Hurtado Rivas

    Research Associate

    Iván Hurtado is a Research Associate in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit, and is based at the CIAT campus in Palmira, Colombia. Iván’s primary research focus is on developing and fostering the development of biofortified varieties of beans, rice, maize and cassava, and on statistical […]


  • Lieven Huybregts

    Senior Research Fellow

    Lieven Huybregts is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, and is the acting chair of IFPRI’s Institutional Review Board. He is a nutrition epidemiologist with expertise in maternal and child malnutrition in developing countries. His current research areas include: the impact of prenatal and postnatal […]


  • Elyse Iruhiriye

    Associate Research Fellow

    Elyse Iruhiriye is an Associate Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. At IFPRI, her research has focused on impact evaluations of integrated nutrition and health programs and integrated agriculture and nutrition programs. She has focused on qualitative process evaluation surveys and cost-effectiveness studies of these programs. Elyse […]


  • Nazrul Islam

    Senior IT Specialist

    Nazrul Islam is a Senior Information Technology (IT) Specialist in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He supports the Feed the Future Bangladesh Research Activity project. He has more than 14 years of experience in IT services and joined IFPRI-Bangladesh in 2013. He completed his master’s […]


  • Mir Raihanul Islam

    Research Analyst

    Mir Raihanul Islam is a Research Analyst in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit who joined IFPRI in 2021 under the USAID-funded Bangladesh Agriculture Policy Activity program. His research interests are related to public health, food security, resilience, and WASH (water, sanitation, and health). Before joining IFPRI, he worked as […]


  • Jasmine Jiang

    Research Analyst

    Jasmine Jiang is a Research Analyst with the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit.


  • Eleanor Jones

    Program Manager

    Eleanor Jones is a Program Manager in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit. Prior to her work at IFPRI, she worked as a research consultant at the Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago. She also served as the managing editor for the Journal of Poverty and Public Policy. […]


  • Eliot Jones-Garcia

    Senior Research Analyst

    Eliot Jones-Garcia is a Senior Research Analyst with the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on human-AI interaction, user-centered design, and the ethical and responsible development of AI. At IFPRI, he explores the conceptual and methodological advancements of AI, the skills and governance structures […]