Post-Doctoral Fellow
International Food Policy Research Institute
Dr. Claudia Ringler has been working with the Environment and Production Technology Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute since 1996. She was outposted in 2000 to the Sub-Institute for Water Resources Planning in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. There she focuses on the development of an integrated economic-hydrologic model for water allocation and use in the Dong Nai River Basin in South Vietnam.
Dr. Ringler, a citizen of Germany, received a B.A. in business management (ESB) from the Fachhochschule fuer Technik und Wirtschaft in Reutlingen, Germany, and from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE) in Madrid, Spain. She received an M.A. in international and development economics from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Bonn University. Her research interests are water resources management, in particular, river basin management and agricultural and natural resource policies for developing countries.