Catherine Ragasa

Bio

Catherine is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit at IFPRI. She is an agricultural and applied economist, focusing on impact evaluation and mixed-method assessments of agrifood innovations, policies and institutions. Prior to joining IFPRI, Catherine worked in the Agriculture and Rural Development Department at the World Bank, Washington, DC, focusing on gender research and inclusive agricultural innovation systems and value chains. She received her PhD in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University in 2008 and holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of the Philippines Diliman. Catherine has more than 20 years of extensive field work, research, and policy engagements in various countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.