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Reza Nia is a Senior Research Analyst with the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit.

Alejandro Nin-Pratt is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit, based in Washington, DC, and has been with IFPRI since 2005. His research topics are development, economic growth and growth linkages and poverty, agricultural productivity, and trade. He has also worked on international trade of livestock […]

Rajalakshmi Nirmal is a Senior Program Manager in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit and manages the Rethinking Food Markets initiative. She is an agricultural policy expert with over 13 years of experience in research, writing, and communications. She has written extensively on agriculture and rural development issues and carried […]

Josue Niyonsingiza is a Senior Research Analyst in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Kigali, Rwanda. Josue contributes to the research work of the Rwanda Strategy Support Program and of the Strengthening Food Systems to Promote Increased Value Chain Employment Opportunities for Youth project. His areas of interest […]

Dr. Ephraim Nkonya is a Nonresident Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. His research is on land resources for poverty reduction. At IFPRI, he led a landmark global study on the economics of land degradation, which uses the broad definition of land degradation as long-term loss of ecosystem […]

Odiche Nwabuikwu is a Research Analyst with the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit.

Chibuzo Nwagboso is a Research Analyst in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Nigeria. Her research focuses on transformation of agrifood systems and participatory agricultural policy processes. Before joining IFPRI, Chibuzo worked as a researcher in a consulting firm, where she specialized in impact evaluations and gender-related studies. […]

Opeyemi Olanrewaju is a Research Analyst in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Abuja. He currently supports IFPRI’s Nigeria Strategy Support Program (NSSP). Opeyemi’s research interests focus on youth employment, technology adoption, agricultural finance, conflict and insecurity, and food security. He seeks to contribute to policy discussions on […]

Dr. Deanna Olney is the Director of the Nutrition, Diets and Health Unit at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and leads the CGIAR Research Initiative: Fruit and Vegetables for Sustainable Healthy Diets (FRESH). She also serves on the leadership team for the Resilient Cities CGIAR Research Initiative. Dr. […]

Steven Were Omamo is Director of the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Nairobi, Kenya. Were worked most recently for New Growth International, where he served as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and President. Previously, he held several leadership positions with the UN World Food Programme (WFP), including as Country […]