Senior Research Fellow
International Food Policy Research Institute
Dr. Mark W. Rosegrant is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). He has 24 years of experience in research and policy analysis in agriculture and economic development, with an emphasis on critical water issues as they impact world food security and environmental sustainability. Rosegrant also developed IFPRI’s International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT), which has become a standard for projecting global and regional food demand, supply, trade and prices to 2020. He continues to lead the team that maintains the model, which has been used to examine key policy options concerning food prices, food security, livestock and fisheries demand, agricultural research allocation, water resources, environment, and trade.
Dr. Rosegrant received a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Michigan. He is the author or editor of 4 books and over 100 professional papers in agricultural economics, water resources and food policy analysis.