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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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  • Chioma Arum

    Program Associate

    Arum Chioma is the Program Associate in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation, Policy, and Scaling Unit, based in Nigeria. With a background in Food Science and Technology and several years’ experience in the food industry, she is knowledgeable about food quality and safety assurances as well as route-to-market strategy. […]


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    Seth Asante

    Senior Research Officer

    Seth Asante is a Senior Research Officer with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.


  • Timur Ashurov

    Research Assistant

    Timur Ashurov is a Research Assistant with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.


  • Thomas Assefa

    Associate Research Fellow

    Thomas Woldu Assefa is an Associate Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. He is a development economist whose research interests include agricultural technology adoption, rural development, agricultural transformation, behavioral economics, agricultural extension and advisory services, food and nutrition security, and survey methods and measurements. Most of his […]


  • Zin Wai Aung

    Research Analyst

    Zin Wai Aung is a Research Analyst with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.


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    Rasmi Avula

    Research Fellow

    Rasmi Avula is a Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. Her research focuses on understanding processes and determinants that influence program implementation and their impact on nutrition. As part of a large portfolio of work under POSHAN (Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition […]


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    Meseret W. Ayele

    Research Officer

    Meseret W. Ayele is a Research Officer with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit.


  • Carlo Azzarri

    Senior Research Fellow

    Carlo Azzarri is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit, currently based in Rome. His interests include the relationships among poverty, nutrition, food security, agriculture, environment, production, and migration, analyzed at both the micro- and macroeconomic levels, mostly through quantitative methods. He led the evaluation of […]


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    Suresh Babu

    Senior Research Fellow / Head of Capacity Strengthening

    Suresh Babu is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit and is the Head of IFPRI’s program on Learning and Capacity Strengthening. His research includes human and organizational strengthening of food policy systems, policy processes, and agricultural extension in developing countries. Over the past 23 years at […]


  • Fantu Bachewe

    Fantu Bachewe

    Research Coordinator

    Fantu Nisrane Bachewe is a Research Coordinator in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, currently based in Nairobi, Kenya. Fantu primarily coordinates research for the project on Strengthening Food Systems to Promote Increased Value Chain Employment Opportunities for Youth, funded by Mastercard. His research covers a range of topics including productivity […]