Our Experts

Swetha Manohar is a Research Fellow and a nutritional epidemiologist whose research has broadly focused on multisectoral programming and policy to improve nutrition and food security in low-income settings, primarily in South and Southeast Asia. This focus has engaged three thematic areas of study: (1) examining linkages between nutrition and […]

Mohru Mardonova is a Research Assistant in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Dushanbe. Prior to joining IFPRI, Mohru worked with the World Food Programme’s Nutrition/ Research Assessment and Monitoring Unit, and with the Aga Khan Foundation’s Quality of Life project, and the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat […]

Amy Margolies is a Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. She has worked on diverse projects including large-scale impact evaluations of social protection and nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs, cost and cost-effectiveness analyses, and qualitative research. Amy has experience conducting research in Latin America (Brazil, Guatemala, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico), […]

Wim Marivoet is Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Leuven, Belgium. His main research interests involve poverty measurement, spatial typologies, food systems, and food and nutrition security, with a focus on several African countries, particularly the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Senegal. Wim […]

Quinn Marshall is a Associate Research Fellow with the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit.

Will Martin is a Senior Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit, where his main interests are agricultural trade policy, productivity growth, poverty reduction, prioritization of development interventions, and environmental impacts of agricultural support. Prior to joining IFPRI, Martin spent nearly 25 years at the World Bank. While there, […]

Eduardo Maruyama is a Research Coordinator in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. He first joined IFPRI as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Currently, he works on improving market access for smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa through rural producer organizations (RPOs) as well as analyzing how valuable information flows from children to their parents and […]

Ian Masias is a Program Head in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Portland, OR. He currently manages the Feed the Future Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity (MAPSA), which seeks to improve governance in Myanmar’s agriculture sector. Since joining IFPRI, he has also managed the Nigeria Strategy Support […]

Harriet Mawia is a Research Officer in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit who conducts research on socioeconomics and gender policy issues using applied econometric analysis. Her focus is on gender equality and the empowerment of women in agriculture for economic development, food security, and improved livelihoods in Africa. Before […]

Jean Mbagurire is a Research Team Leader with the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit.