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Lawrence Haddad

Lawrence Haddad PhD

Nutrition
London, England, United Kingdom

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Dr Haddad is currently Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in the Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division. He is also the former Director of the world-leading Institute of Development Studies (IDS), where for 10 years he led a team of 250 staff and 100 graduate students. He developed his expertise in global development providing thought leadership on issues and challenges at the intersection of poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition. Prior to this, Dr Haddad was a Division Director at IFPRI and a Lecturer in Development Economics at the University of Warwick in the UK.