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Cynthia Paz is a Senior Research Analyst with the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit.

Nicostrato Perez is a Research Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. His research interests are water and food security, adaptation to climate change, sustainable intensification, and economy-environment policy modeling. He is part of the team that developed and currently maintains and applies IFPRI’s IMPACT model in policy research […]

Dellings Phiri is the Country Manager for the HarvestPlus Malawi Program. He has worked in the agriculture sector for 20 years, with a focus on seeds.  Before joining HarvestPlus, he worked for several years with Seed Co Mw Ltd as Managing Director, and for Monsanto Malawi (now Bayer Malawi) as […]

Valeria Piñeiro is the Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. Her recent work includes modeling the impacts of agricultural support policies on emissions from agriculture and reviewing the evidence on incentives for the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices and their […]

Frank Place is a Senior Advisor in the Director General’s Office. Until 2022, he was Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM). Before being appointed PIM Director, Frank served for four years as a Senior Research Fellow in the PIM Program Management Unit. His primary […]

Olufemi Popoola is a Research Analyst with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.

Angga Pradesha is a Senior Scientist in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit. His research interests center around the application of economywide models on issues related to international trade, climate change, natural resources, poverty, and food security. Prior to joining IFPRI, he worked as a Research Associate at the Asian […]

Mamata Pradhan is a Research Coordinator in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in India. She is a scholar in development researching social protection programs. Her work portfolio involves large-scale multi-country and multi-stakeholder projects in the South Asia Region. She helped develop an integrated framework for trade, environment, and […]

Suyashi Purwar is a Program Manager in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. She has more than six years of experience in data analytics and program and partnership management. She has worked on a variety of projects across India and has led many large-scale engagements with […]

Wahidur Quabili is a Senior Research Analyst in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit. He first joined IFPRI as a Senior Research Assistant. His work focuses on urban challenges to food and nutrition security. In 1986, Quabili earned his bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from the Bangladesh Agricultural University in Mymensingh, […]