Dr. Will Martin is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington D.C. He is also the former President of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE). He was trained in economics and agricultural economics at University of Queensland, Australian National University and Iowa State University, and had been worked at Australian Bureau of Agricultural Economics and Australian National University in early years. He was also appointed as the World Bank’s research manager for agricultural and rural development before joining IFPRI in 2015.

Dr. Martin has a wide range of research interests, and in particular, his recent research has focused the impacts of changes in trade policies and food prices on poverty and food security in developing countries; and on the impacts of productivity growth on poverty. Over the past decade, he has published a large number of research works on “high-value agricultural exports from Africa” and “food trade policy and the dietary transition”. The most recent two influential reports are published in 2008.