Our Experts

Brian McNamara is a Program Manager in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. He assists in the preparation of publications and presentations related to food security, nutrition, agriculture, rural development, and poverty reduction issues. Prior to joining IFPRI, he researched healthcare financing at the Minnesota Department of Health and worked […]

Ruth Meinzen-Dick is a Senior Research Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. She has extensive transdisciplinary research experience 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 in […]

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, […]

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 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 […]

Nicholas W. Minot is the Deputy Division Director in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. Since joining IFPRI in 1997, he has carried out research on the impact of trade policy on poverty, agricultural market reform in Africa, fertilizer policy, value chains, income diversification, spatial patterns in poverty, high-value agriculture, market […]

Bart Minten, a Belgian citizen, is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. Since 2020, he has been out-posted in Yangon, Myanmar, as the Program Leader of the Myanmar Strategy Support Program, focusing on research, capacity building, and outreach and communication of research related to food […]

Lilas Misenga is a Research Associate – Nutrition with the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit.

Abhijeet Mishra is an Associate Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit. His research interests include future sustainable pathways for the global land-use system and the trade-offs between land-based mitigation, food security, and other sustainable development goals. Prior to joining IFPRI, he worked in the land-use management group […]

Rewa Misra is the Head of National Policy and Innovative Financing in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. She is responsible for supporting the scale-up of biofortification through policy and partnerships with governments and multilateral financial institutions. Through her work, Rewa helps to develop public-private investment […]