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Shahidur Rashid is the Director for the South Asia Office, part of the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, and is based in New Delhi. He is committed to seeing tangible change take place in South Asia. Dr. Rashid has worked on agriculture and food policy issues in Asia and Africa […]

Soumyajit Ray is a Senior Research Analyst in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. He is a quantitative researcher with research interests in political economy, public finance, health economics, and econometrics. Prior to joining IFPRI, Soumyajit worked as a researcher with various governmental agencies such as NITI Aayog, the Reserve […]

Thomas Reardon is a University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University. Tom has been at MSU since 1992; IFPRI Research Fellow 1986-1991; Rockefeller Foundation Post-Doc with IFPRI in Burkina Faso 1984-1986; Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1984, and masters from the Université de Nice and Columbia University. Tom researches the […]

Md. Redoy is a Field Research Officer in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit. With IFPRI since 2011, his field research contributions have focused on food security, nutrition, and climate change. He is currently working on the Bangladesh Agriculture Policy Activity Project: Component 2. Before coming to IFPRI, Redoy worked […]

Dr. Danielle Resnick currently is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution in the Global Economy and Development Program. Key research areas include the political economy of agricultural policy and […]

Brendan Rice is a Research Specialist in IFPRI’s Markets, Trade, And Institutions Unit with experience in agribusiness and value chain development. He works primarily on food and input price monitoring, food crisis risk, and market intelligence for seed systems development. Prior to IFPRI, he worked at the UN Food and […]

Claudia Ringler is the Unit Director for Natural Resources and Resilience in the Transformation Strategies Department. She coordinates research at the intersection of nature, agriculture, and development for tangible progress toward more equitable and resilient food systems. As co-lead of the CGIAR NEXUS Gains initiative, she drives research on the […]

Ricky Robertson is a Research Fellow in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit. His work harnesses GIS and parallelized computation to help with research problems of a spatial nature and/or those which are prohibitively difficult to tackle using conventional computational resources, particularly in regards to the interaction between the land […]

Sherman Robinson is a Research Fellow Emeritus in the Director General’s Office and Professor of Economics (retired), University of Sussex. He served as the Director of  IFPRI’s Trade and Macroeconomics Division from 1993 to 2004, and as an and Institute Fellow. He later rejoined IFPRI as a Senior Research Fellow […]

Loraine Ronchi serves as CGIAR Senior Policy Advisor in the Director General’s Office, with a focus on climate, on a two-year secondment from the World Bank Group (WBG). Housed within the Systems Transformation Science Group and based at IFPRI, she works to amplify the impact of CGIAR research on agriculture […]