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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 […]

Abdul Zabbar Sakil is a Research Analyst with the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit.

Sunil Saroj joined IFPRI as Research Analyst in July 2015. He is currently working in Policy Reform Initiative Project (PRIP) for Agricultural Development and Food Security in Nepal. Prior to joining IFPRI, he worked with IPE Global Pvt. Ltd., Micro Insurance Academy (MIA) and Collaborative Research and Dissemination (CORD). He […]

Emily Schmidt is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. Her research focuses on the intersection of development economics and geographic information systems (GIS) with an emphasis on the dynamic process of rural land transformation, rural employment diversification, and agricultural production outcomes on household welfare. Her […]

Samuel Scott is a Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. With IFPRI since 2016, he conducts applied nutrition research in the South Asia region. He has experience working on iron deficiency and anemia, adolescent health, biofortification, human functional outcomes such as cognition, behavior change communication strategies, women’s […]