Claudia Ringler
Deputy Director of Environment and Production Technology Division
Bio
Claudia Ringler is Deputy Division Director of the Environment and Production Technology Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
A thought leader on water for food, Ringler manages IFPRI’s Natural Resource Theme, co-leads the Institute’s water research program and is a co-lead of the CGIAR NEXUS Gains Initiative. She has more than 200 publications in the areas of global water and food security, irrigation, gender-water and gender-climate change linkages, on the synergies of climate change adaptation and mitigation and on the role of energy in transforming agricultural systems.
In 2021, Ringler was awarded honorary life memberships by both the International Water Resources Association and the International Association of Agricultural Economics for her lifelong contributions to the fields of water resources economics and agricultural economics, respectively. Ringler has a PhD in agricultural economics from University of Bonn and an MA in International Development Economics from Yale University.