Nicholas W. Minot is a Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Division Director in the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Since joining IFPRI in 1997, he has carried out research on the the impact of trade policy on poverty, agricultural market reform in Africa, fertilizer policy, value chains, income diversification, spatial patterns in poverty, high-value agriculture, market information systems, and food price transmission.
He is currently working on studies of rice price stabilization in Bangladesh, pastoral resilience in Burkina Faso, food and nutrition security in Indonesia, and methods of prioritizing agricultural investments. He is also the co-leader of a research program on Efficient and Inclusive Value Chains within the CGIAR research program Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM).
Before joining IFPRI he taught at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, worked as a policy adviser in Zimbabwe, and served as a survey analyst in Rwanda. He also carried out research on agricultural marketing in Bolivia, Cameroon, and Peru, on small enterprises in Laos, and on household budgets in Paraguay. A U.S. citizen, he received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in agricultural economics from Michigan State University and his B.A. in international development from Brown University.