Yan Bai is a consultant to the Development Data Group of the World Bank and an assistant professor in the School of Public Affairs at Zhejiang University in China. He is specialized in food and nutrition security and food price research and is a core member of the Food Prices for Nutrition project. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Tufts’ Friedman School of Nutrition. Before joining the Friedman…
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Will Masters is a Professor in the Friedman School of Nutrition, with a secondary appointment in Tufts University's Department of Economics. From 2011 to 2014 he served as chair of the Friedman School’s Department of Food and Nutrition Policy, and before coming to Tufts was a faculty member in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University (1991-2010), and also at the University of Zimbabwe (1989-90…
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Enock Chikava leads the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s work to reduce poverty for millions of farming families in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia by promoting inclusive agricultural innovations that drive productivity and income growth for smallholder farmers in a sustainable way. He joined the foundation in April 2015 as a senior program officer focusing on crop innovations. Enock…
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Malinda Seneviratne is a sociologist by training, educated at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka and then Harvard University, the University of Southern California, and Cornell University. Prior to taking up this position at Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI) in February 2021, he spent over 20 years as a journalist working for or contributing to many…
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Masresha Tessema directs the food and nutrition portfolio of the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), where he has led a variety of initiatives related to the country’s food and nutrition policy and strategy, Ethiopian food system transformation plan, particularly in regard to the new country’s food based dietary guidelines launched in 2022. He holds a PhD in Human Nutrition and Health from…
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Adeyinka Onabolu is a Senior Advisor on Food Security and Nutrition at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and provides policy advisory support to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Nigeria, a role she has held since June 2016. Her role harnesses Government, private sector, and development partners’ efforts to reduce malnutrition and food insecurity in the…
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Anna Herforth is a senior researcher leading initiatives to improve global food measurement toward food systems for healthy diets. In addition to her role in the Food Prices for Nutrition project at Tufts, she is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, and a Visiting Senior Researcher at Wageningen University & Research. Dr. Herforth’s work provides…
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Dorothe Singer is a Senior Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia Region at the World Bank. Her research interests include access to finance and the role of institutions in international finance. She is part of the team producing the Global Findex database, which measures how adults around the world save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk, and a lead author…
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Nadine Chehade is a Senior Financial Sector Specialist and CGAP Representative in the Arab world. She works to deepen CGAP’s engagement in the region, collaborating with regulators, policy-makers, donors, investors, regional associations, and businesses, with the overarching goal of advancing financial inclusion. She has led CGAP’s global work on financial services in humanitarian crises and now…
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Kwame Oppong is the Head of FinTech and Innovation at Bank of Ghana. His background spans Technology, Digital Financial Services (DFS) operations, policy development, and regulation. He has consulted for several governments, public sector institutions, international development organizations and private corporations globally. Prior to joining the Bank, Kwame worked with CGAP, Millicom, Hewlett…
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