Our Experts

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

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 […]

Mark W. Rosegrant is a Research Fellow Emeritus in the Director General’s Office. He  previously served as Director of IFPRI’s Environment and Production Technology Division. Dr. Rosegrant has extensive experience in research and policy analysis in agriculture and economic development, with an emphasis on water resources and other natural resource and […]

Shalini Roy is a Senior Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit. Her research focuses on the relationship between households’ economic behavior and social protection, nutrition, agriculture, gender, and early childhood development. Much of her work is based on impact evaluations of development programming, with a particular interest […]

Devesh Roy, an Indian national, is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. His areas of expertise include international trade, environment, firm-farm linkages, and food safety. He has recently been involved in research related to the economics of animal disease outbreaks. He also conducts research on issues […]

Marie T. Ruel is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. She was the Director of IFPRI’s Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division from 2004 to 2023, after serving as Senior Research Fellow and Research Fellow in that division beginning in 1996. She led the Multi-Country Program […]

Moe Sabai is a Research Analyst with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.

Pascale Sabbagh is a Senior Program Manager for Mitigate+, the CGIAR Initiative on Low-Emission Food Systems, co-led by IFPRI. She has held various positions at IFPRI since 2010: Research Analyst, Environment and Production Technology Division; Program Manager for the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM); and Special […]