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Washington D.C. United States
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Director General
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NGO / Public Service
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About
I currently serve as Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), position I have held since December 2009. I joined IFPRI in 1995 as a Research Fellow and led IFPRI's program on public investment before becoming the Director of IFPRI’s Development Strategy and Governance Division. Prior to working at IFPRI, I held positions at the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) in the Netherlands and the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at the University of Arkansas. I received my PhD in applied economics from the University of Minnesota, and bachelor's and master's degrees from Nanjing Agricultural University in Ch
