Dan Gilligan is Director of the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). His research addresses the global challenges of poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition. Much of his research is based on rigorous impact evaluations of large-scale programs in social protection, humanitarian assistance, nutrition, education and agriculture to improve their effectiveness and to examine the economics and intrahousehold gender dynamics that shape their impacts. He has conducted more than 25 impact evaluations in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America. From 2013 to 2016, he was Adjunct Professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. He is a member of the Board of The Micronutrient Forum. His research has been featured in The New York Times, the Economist, The Atlantic online, and in blogs at VoxDev, the World Bank, and The Guardian. He holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland.