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Lensa Omune is a Research Officer in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in IFPRI’s Kenya office. Her research centers on the economywide analysis of interactions between policies, environmental risks/climate change, external risks, and agrifood systems using computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and social accounting matrix (SAM) multiplier analysis. […]

Theingi Oo is a Research Analyst with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.

Giordano Palloni is a Nonresident Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit. His current research focuses on three related topics: exploring the determinants of maternal and early childhood health, evaluating health and education programs targeted at children in developing countries, and understanding how childhood experiences evolve into adult outcomes. He […]

Niharika Pandya is a Research Analyst with the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit.

Aklima Parvin is a Senior Project Manager in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in Dhaka. She has more than 19 years of program management experience in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating large-scale, complex, integrated nutrition-sensitive agriculture and social protection projects in Bangladesh. She has worked on nutrition and […]

Himanshu Pathak is a Program Manager in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit and is based in New Delhi. He manages a project that aims to prioritize public expenditure to foster inclusive agricultural transformation. He is interested in studying the impacts of climate change on agriculture, ways to improve resilience […]

Subhransu Pattnaik is a Research Analyst in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. He has experience working in the social sector with a quantitative background, and he is an advanced user of statistical packages like STATA and R. He also has experience working with the Global Development Institute on the […]

Sharvari Patwardhan is a Research Analyst in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit at IFPRI, based in New Delhi. She is a development economist interested in research at the intersection of health, nutrition, and agriculture. Prior to joining IFPRI, Sharvari was a Research Associate in Health Economics and Social Care […]

Karl Pauw is a Senior Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit based in Washington, DC, where he co-leads the country modeling team, and works on a wide range of development and agricultural policy issues. He previously led IFPRI’s country programs in Accra, Ghana (2018–2020), and Lilongwe, Malawi […]

Flor Paz is a Senior Research Analyst with the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit.