Special Presentation by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
The Margaret A. Gilliam Institute for Global Food Security invites you to a Special Presentation by IFAD's Paul Winter, Associate Vice-President, Strategy and Knowledge Department, IFAD, Rome; and Thouraya Triki, Director of IFAD’s Sustainable Production, Markets and Institutions Division. Everyone is welcome to attend.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Paul Winters is Associate Vice-President, Strategy and Knowledge Department at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome, and has been with IFAD since 2015. From 2004-2015, he was a Professor in the Department of Economics at American University in Washington, DC, where he taught courses on impact evaluation, development economics, and environmental economics. Before American University, he worked at the International Potato Center in Lima Peru, the University of New England in Australia, and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)in Washington, DC. He has published numerous journal articles, working papers, and book chapters in the areas of impact evaluation, migration, cash transfer programs, rural development, and smallholder agriculture. He has conducted field work and managed surveys in the Philippines, Indonesia, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, and Kenya. From 2008 to 2015, he provided technical support to the Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness at the Inter-American Development Bank, helping design impact evaluations for IDB-funded projects.
Thouraya Triki is the Director of IFAD’s Sustainable Production, Markets and Institutions Division. Before joining IFAD, Triki worked at the African Development Bank (AfDB) as Manager in the Microeconomics, Institutions and Development Impact Division, Chief Economist Complex, at its headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. She managed the division’s knowledge products as well as a team providing support to AfDB’s non-sovereign lending operations. From 2013 to 2017, she was Chief Country Economist at AfDB North Africa Regional Department based in Tunis, Tunisia, with a particular focus on entrepreneurship, public-private partnerships and financial sector development. She also played a leading role in setting up the AfDB PPP Hub for North Africa. From 2008 to 2013 Triki held a senior and then principal economist position at AfDB’s research department where she was part of the Additionality and Development Outcome Assessment (ADOA) team. Before joining the AfDB, Triki spent about 10 years in various positions in academia – teaching finance in Canada, France and Tunisia, and managing and consulting with private sector businesses. Triki holds a PhD in finance from HEC Montréal.