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Mohammad Riad Uddin is a Research Analyst in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. His research interests include regional economic development, education policy, and agricultural economics. Prior to joining IFPRI, he worked as a consultant at the World Bank. Through his work at the World Bank and Innovations for Poverty […]

John Ulimwengu is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit who currently works on food systems mapping in selected African countries. His research interests include food systems dynamics, resilience, and spatial typology for food and nutrition security. Since 2007, John has been involved in strategic research […]

Rowena Andrea Valmonte-Santos is a Senior Research Analyst in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit. Her current work focuses on natural resource management with emphasis on food security in developing countries, participatory approaches to community-based fisheries management and gender, threats and opportunities of climate change, and to some extent biosafety and […]

Joanna van Asselt is an Associate Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. Her current research focuses on food security in Myanmar. Her previous research focused on improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in rural Africa, Asia, and Central America, and assessing whether government policies ensure food and […]

Bjorn Van Campenhout is a Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. He is also an Associate Research Fellow at the LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance of the KU Leuven, Belgium.  His research focuses on smallholder agriculture, especially in East Africa. He has published on food […]

Teunis van Rheenen is the Director of Business Development and External Relations in the Director General’s Office, based in Washington, DC. He is also the Senior Director, Science Group Innovative Finance and Resource Mobilization for CGIAR. Dr. Van Rheenen has over 15 years of experience working in CGIAR developing and […]

Ndayizeye Viateur is a Research Support with the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit.

Vandana Vidhani is a Research Analyst in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Her current work focuses on inclusive agriculture transformation (IAT) indicators. Before joining IFPRI, Vandana worked as a research analyst in the Sustainable Mobility Team at the Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW), […]

Rob Vos is a Senior Research Fellow in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit and previously led the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division (MTID), beginning in 2017. Previously, he was Director of Agricultural Development Economics at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), responsible for economic analysis […]

Julia Wagner is a Research Analyst with the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit.