Kwaw Andam is the Country Program Leader of the Nigeria Strategy Support Program in Abuja. He is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. Before leading the IFPRI Nigeria team, Kwaw worked as a Research Fellow in the IFPRI program in Ghana. His research has included analyses of the competitiveness of agricultural production in Ghana and the causal linkages between regulatory protection, land use, and socioeconomic outcomes. Prior to joining IFPRI, Kwaw served as an agricultural economist at the World Bank in Washington, DC, where he led analytical work on rural development in Yemen and worked on lending operations in agriculture in Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand, and Yemen, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow based in the IFPRI office in Ethiopia. He holds a PhD in Public Policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University.