IFPRI AFRICA BROWN BAG SEMINAR SERIES: ‘’MENTORING YOUNG AFRICAN POLICY RESEARCHERS: LESSONS FROM IFPRI APPROACHES’’

IFPRI Africa cordially invites you to a Brown Bag Seminar on

‘’Mentoring Young African Policy Researchers: Lessons from IFPRI Approaches’’

Tuesday, October 11 , 2022

10:00 – 11:00 AM (EST) | 14:00-15:00 PM (GMT)

Presented by:

Babu Suresh

Senior Research Fellow| Head of Capacity Strengthening| DSGD-IFPRI

Abstract:

Mentorship is an important process for developing future agricultural and policy researchers. In this seminar, we reflect on the process of mentorship in food policy research and derive specific lessons from IFPRI’s experience in the last three decades. We will discuss various models of mentorship and their contribution to developing policy research capacity in the national research and policy systems. As we embark on new research initiatives and the associated sharing of the capacity, it is useful to understand how mentorship could be an effective approach to bringing technical knowledge and practical applications to solving research and policy problems in the economic development process.

Presenter:

Suresh Babu is  a Senior Research Fellow and Head of Capacity Strengthening at IFPRI. Before joining IFPRI in 1992 as a Research Fellow, Dr. Babu was a Research Economist at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

At IFPRI, he has been involved in institutional and human capacity strengthening for higher education and research in many countries in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, including, Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa for the past 23 years. He leads IFPRI program on Learning and Capacity Strengthening.

Moderator:
Samuel Benin Deputy Division Director, IFPRI AFR