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May Wang is a Research Assistant with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Beijing. She mainly supports research and external communication. May is fluent in Japanese and proficient in both English and Mandarin. Prior to joining IFPRI, May interned at Peace Boat, an international organization based in Tokyo, […]

Patrick Ward is a Nonresident Fellow with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.

James Warner is a Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, and is the Program Leader for Rwanda. He first joined IFPRI in 2013 as a Research Coordinator based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He has also been the office head of IFPRI’s Eastern and Southern Africa Office, which […]

Keith Wiebe is a Senior Research Fellow in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit and Lead of the CGIAR Research Initiative on Foresight. In addition to foresight, his areas of particular interest include climate change, natural resource management, agricultural productivity, and food security. Prior to joining IFPRI in 2013, he […]

Amanda Wyatt is a Senior Program Manager in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. She is working with the CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT), a multi-partner, multi-country research program aiming to identify transformative innovations and policies and strengthen stakeholders’ capacity toward food system […]

Hua Xie is a Research Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. He specializes in water resources and environmental systems analysis and is interested in developing and applying analytical and modeling tools to address various issues in water resources and environmental management. Topics of his research at IFPRI include […]

Valencia Wenqian Xu is a Research Analyst in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC, where she works on computable general equilibrium (CGE) and the Rural Investment and Policy Analysis (RIAPA) models. Her academic interests include value chains, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), impact investment, entrepreneurship, gender, […]

Futoshi Yamauchi is Senior Research Fellow in the Market, Trade, and Institutions Unit. His areas of specialization include human capital formation, the labor market, agriculture, rural development, social learning, and governance issues in developing countries. He has extensive field experience in Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, Kenya, Malawi, Papua […]

Basma Yassa is a Research Associate with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.

Sivan Yosef is a Senior Program Manager in the Director General’s Office. She has worked on Nourishing Millions: Stories of Change in Nutrition, the 2020 Vision Initiative, the Global Food Policy Report, Transform Nutrition, LANSA, the Millions Fed project, the IFPRI 2013–2018 strategy, and the 2020 conferences “Leveraging Agriculture for […]