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Prapti Barooah is a Senior Research Analyst with the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. She is an economics and development studies graduate, with research experience across South and Southeast Asia (India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Lao PDR). She has worked on studies across diverse development domains including agriculture, nutrition, rural livelihood, […]

Amina Bashir is a Senior Program Assistant in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Abuja, Nigeria, where she supports both administrative and finance issues. Prior to joining IFPRI, she worked with the International Fertilizer Centre (IFDC) under the Nigeria Agro-dealers Association (NADS) project as an Association Development Officer, […]

Elodie Becquey is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in the West and Central Africa office in Senegal. She has over 15 years of research experience in diet, nutrition, and food security in Africa. At IFPRI since 2013, she has conducted impact evaluation and […]

Ben Belton is a Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Dhaka. He is an applied interdisciplinary social scientist with more than 15 years’ field experience living and working in South and Southeast Asia, in countries including Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam, India, Cambodia, and Malaysia. […]

Rui Benfica is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. Prior to joining IFPRI in  2019, he worked with the Research and Impact Assessment Division at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), where he undertook research in areas relevant for the overarching goal of overcoming […]

Ezaboo Beniwal is a Research Analyst with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.

Anderson Benson is a Project Manager in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in IFPRI’s Malawi office. He supports the IFPRI team in managing complex data collection, analysis, and other research activities to inform development policy. His research interests are in development and agricultural economics. Before joining IFPRI, Anderson […]

Guush Berhane is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. His research focuses on policies and innovations to promote agricultural transformation, rural livelihoods, and well-being, and on the impact of social protection interventions in mitigating food insecurity and vulnerability. Much of his research is based on […]

Lucy Billings is a Senior Project Manager in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, where she provides management and research support to research projects and programs on social protection, nutrition, and gender equity. Lucy joined IFPRI as a Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellow and continued with IFPRI at the conclusion […]

Maggie Biruri is a Head, Resource Mobilization & Partnerships, HarvestPlus with the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit.