47th Annual Conference and
Future Leaders Forum

June 5-8, 2011

"Building the Capacity to Transform the Food Security Landscape"

Speakers and Panelists

Suresh Babu, IFPRI

Dr. Babu was educated at Agricultural Universities in Tamil Nadu, India (B.S. Agriculture; M.S. Agriculture) and at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (M.S. Economics and PhD Economics). Before joining IFPRI in 1992 as a Research Fellow, Dr. Babu was a Research Economist at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Between 1989 and 1994 he spent 5 years in Malawi, Southern Africa in various capacities. He was Senior Food Policy Advisor to the Malawi Ministry of Agriculture on developing a national level Food and Nutrition Information System; an Evaluation Economist for the UNICEF-Malawi working on designing food and nutrition intervention programs; Coordinator of UNICEF/IFPRI food security program in Malawi; and a Senior Lecturer at the Bunda College of Agriculture, Malawi developing and teaching computer-based policy-oriented post graduate courses.

At IFPRI he has helped implement several capacity strengthening programs through country and regional networks in South Asia, Central Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. He has published several books and monographs and more than fifty peer reviewed journal papers.