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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.
researcher spotlight
Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow and theme leader in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on climate resilience, spatial data and analytics, agroecosystems, and agricultural science policy. Gridded crop production data of the world (SPAM) and the agricultural technology evaluation model (DREAM) are among his research contributions.
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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.
Durjoy Dey is a Research Analyst in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Dhaka. His research interests are in public health, agriculture, climate change, and machine learning. Before joining IFPRI, Durjoy worked with the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), where he worked on projects related to gender, agrifood systems, climate change, and machine learning. Durjoy is primarily a quantitative researcher who is interested in gathering evidence to aid policy formulation. He received both his BSc and MSc in applied statistics from the Institute of Statistical Research and Training (ISRT), University of Dhaka.