Email: M.Bakhtiar AT cgiar.org
I am a development economist from Bangladesh. I work as a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), where I am based at the Washington DC headquarters but divide my time between there and IFPRI’s Bangladesh office.
Based on large-scale surveys, field and lab experiments in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, my research explores agriculture, social protection, nutrition and skills training with a particular focus on intra-household decision-making. My work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals spanning the fields of development economics, agricultural economics, and nutrition.
I received my PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from University of Maryland – College Park. Earlier, I worked as a Research Analyst at the Africa Gender Innovation Lab at the World Bank, where I was also selected in the Young Professionals Program (YPP) (declined) in 2019. Before graduate school, I was a Research Coordinator at Innovations for Poverty Action.
Mehrab Bakhtiar 