Karl Pauw is a Senior Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Development Strategy and Governance Division based in Washington DC. He previously led IFPRI’s country programs in Accra, Ghana (2018–2020) and Lilongwe, Malawi (2013–2015), and also served as a regional coordinator for the FAO’s Monitoring and Analyzing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2015–2017). He holds a Ph.D. in development economics from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and his research interests include development and agricultural policy analysis; microeconomic analyses of labor markets, poverty, and dietary outcomes; and policy impact analysis using computable general equilibrium and micro-simulation models.