Meet Our Team

The WEAI team is composed of experts from the International Food Policy Research Institute, the Oxford Poverty and Health Development Initiative, and other partner organizations. The transdisciplinary team includes internationally renowned researchers with extensive technical expertise in development, nutrition, agriculture, gender, economics, and quantitative and qualitative research methods.

IFPRI

Principal Investigators

Hazel Malapit

Senior Research Coordinator

Ruth Meinzen-Dick

Ruth Meinzen-Dick

Senior Research Fellow

Agnes Quisumbing

Agnes Quisumbing

Senior Research Fellow

Other IFPRI Team Members

Jessica Heckert

Jessica Heckert

Senior Research Fellow

Ara Go

Senior Program Manager

Emily Myers

Emily Camille Myers

Senior Research Analyst

Flor Paz

Senior Research Analyst

Nathaniel Ferguson

Nathaniel Ferguson

Research Analyst

Partners

Brenda Boonabaana

Brenda Boonabaana

Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin

Cheryl Doss

Professor of Economics at Tufts University

Marlene Elias

Gender Lead at Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Sanjida Hossein

Sanjida Hossein

Development Consultant, Curriculum Development and M&E

Tasokwa Kakota

Senior Lecturer in Mathematics with LUANAR

Cristina Manfre

Cristina Manfre

Global Gender Director at TechnoServe

Md. Zahidul Hassan

Md. Zahidul Hassan

Data Analysis and Technical Assistance Limited (DATA)

Annet Mulema

Senior Program Officer, International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

Director of Cultural Practice, LLC

Ana Vaz

Senior Research Officer at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative

Kathryn Yount

Faculty, Global Health Jointly Appointed, Behavioral Sciences/Health Ed.