Dr. Claudia Ringler is Deputy Division Director at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
A thought leader on water for food, she manages IFPRI’s Natural Resource Theme, co-leads the Institute’s water research program and is a co-manager of CGIAR NEXUS Gains Initiative.
She published more than 120 journal articles in the areas of global water and food security, irrigation, gender-water, energy and climate change linkages and the synergies of climate change adaptation and mitigation. Claudia has a PhD in agricultural economics from University of Bonn and an MA in International Development Economics from Yale University.