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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.

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Khalid Siddig

Khalid Siddig is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit and Program Leader for the Sudan Strategy Support Program. He is an agricultural economist with a focus on examining the impacts of potential shocks and the allocation of resources on economic growth, environmental sustainability, and income distribution through the lens of economywide and micro-level tools. 

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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.


Johan Swinnen

Director General, IFPRI; Managing Director, Systems Transformation, CGIAR; Member, Advisory Committee On Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA), USAID

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Johan Swinnen has served as the Director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) since January 2020 and Managing Director, Systems Transformation, CGIAR, since July 2022. He is a member of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA), USAID; Commissioner in the Food Systems Economics Commission; Representative in the High-Level Executive Committee of the IPC; Co-chair of the Think20 (T20) Task Force on Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture; and also a member of the Champions 12.3 Leadership Group to Reduce Food Loss and Waste (SDG Target 12.3) and of the Africa Europe Strategic Task Force on Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems. Prior to joining IFPRI, Dr. Swinnen was professor of economics and Director of the LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels.

Dr. Swinnen was a Lead Economist at the World Bank from 2003 to 2004 and economic adviser to the European Commission from 1998 to 2001. Over the course of his career, Dr. Swinnen has been a visiting professor at various universities, including at Stanford University’s Center on Food Security and the Environment, and a frequent adviser to institutions such as the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Dr. Swinnen earned his PhD from Cornell University (USA) and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Göttingen (Germany) and the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra (Slovakia). He is a fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association and the European Association of Agricultural Economists, and he served as President of the International Association of Agricultural Economists from 2012 to 2015.

Dr. Swinnen has published extensively on agricultural and food policies, international development, political economy, institutional reforms, trade, and global value chains, and his body of work has been widely cited. His recent book, The Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), received the Book Award from the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE). A co-authored paper on “Trade, Standards, and Poverty: Evidence from Senegal” received the 2023 Publication of Enduring Quality Award from the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA). His other books include Quality Standards, Value Chains and International Development (Cambridge University Press 2015); Political Power and Economic Policy: Theory and Empirical Applications (Cambridge University Press 2011); and From Marx and Mao to the Market: The Economics and Politics of Agricultural Transition (Oxford University Press 2006).


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