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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Kalyani Raghunathan

Kalyani Raghunathan is Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, based in New Delhi, India. Her research lies at the intersection of agriculture, gender, social protection, and public health and nutrition, with a specific focus on South Asia and Africa. 

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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

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  • Juneweenex Mbuthia

    Research Officer

    Juneweenex Mbuthia is a Research Officer in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. Her research interests include agricultural economics, gender, and climate change policy research and analysis, with a specific focus on food systems transformation, economywide analysis, computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling, social accounting matrices (SAM), and multiplier analysis. Juneweenex […]


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    Dedrick McCord

    Research Analyst

    Dedrick McCord is a Research Analyst with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.


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    Margaret McMillan

    Nonresident Fellow

    Margaret McMillan is a Nonresident Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit and an Associate Professor of Economics at Tufts University. She has published widely in the areas of international trade and investment focusing primarily on developing countries. Understanding the distributional consequences of international economic integration is the key focus of her […]


  • Brian McNamara

    Program Manager

    Brian McNamara is a Program Manager in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. He assists in analyzing and managing projects related to food security, nutrition, agriculture, rural development, and poverty reduction, with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. Before joining IFPRI, he researched healthcare financing at the Minnesota […]


  • Ruth Meinzen-Dick

    Senior Research Fellow

    Ruth Meinzen-Dick is a Senior Research Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. She has extensive transdisciplinary research experience in using qualitative and quantitative research methods. Her work focuses on two broad (and sometimes interrelated) areas: how institutions affect how people manage natural resources, and the role of gender […]


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    Dawit Mekonnen

    Nonresident Fellow

    Dawit Mekonnen is a Nonresident Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. His research interests include productivity and efficiency analysis, water economics, agricultural input systems, and impact evaluation of development projects. Dawit’s current work in sub-Saharan Africa focuses on understanding the impact of irrigation on agricultural productivity, nutrition, health, […]


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    Yalew Mekonnen Marilign

    Research Officer

    Yalew Mekonnen is a Research Officer in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. His research interests cover rural development, agriculture value chains, women’s empowerment, and welfare. Yalew holds an advanced master’s degree in international and development economics from the University of Namur, Belgium, and a […]


  • Mahlet Mekuria

    Communications Officer

    Mahlet Mekuria is a Communications Officer and Acting Program Management Officer for the Ethiopia Strategy Support Program (ESSP) of the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. As Communications Officer, Mahlet develops posts for the ESSP blog and the Preparing Quarterly Newsletter and performs other communication tasks, […]


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    Biren Mendali

    Senior Project Manager, HarvestPlus

    Birendra Mendali is a Senior Project Manager in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. He is based in Patna, Bihar, and leads the project “High Zinc Wheat and Rice and High Iron/Zinc Lentils to Improve Nutrition in Bihar and Odisha” funded by the Bill & Melinda […]


  • Purnima Menon

    Purnima Menon

    Senior Director, Food and Nutrition Policy, CGIAR and IFPRI

    Purnima Menon is the Senior Director for Food and Nutrition, where she oversees three units within IFPRI/CGIAR: Nutrition, Diets, and Health (NDH), Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion (PGI), and Markets, Trade, and Institutions (MTI) and is based in New Delhi, India. In her work in India, Dr. Menon directs POSHAN (Partnerships […]