Ousmane Badiane is the Africa director for the International Food Policy Research Institute. He oversees the institute’s two regional offices for West and Central Africa in Dakar and Eastern and Southern Africa in Addis Ababa. He coordinates IFPRI’s work program in the areas of food policy research, capacity strengthening, and policy communications in Africa. Ousmane Badiane received a master’s degree and Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of Kiel in Germany. He is the chair of The African Agricultural Technology Foundation Board of Trustees.