Akhter U. Ahmed is a Senior Research Fellow, Country Representative for Bangladesh, and led the Policy Research and Strategy Support Program (PRSSP) in Bangladesh under the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). He works on strategies for agricultural and rural development, social protection, and women’s empowerment, food insecurity, and undernutrition of the poor in developing countries. He received a PhD from Colorado State University and an MS from Cornell University in Agricultural Economics.