29 October 2013

Two-chord wonder: from IDS to IFPRI

I am a company man. None of this jumping around from organisation to organisation every 2 years for me. Keep it simple, as the late great Lou Reed (right) said: one chord is OK, two is pushing it and three is jazz. So I am sticking to two.

In other words, I am delighted to be re-joining IFPRI in April next year after I step down from my 10 year role as Director of IDS.

Both organisations are wonderful in their own way and I feel very fortunate to have worked at each. IFPRI has given me the passion of my life and IDS has helped me broaden the tools and context within which that passion is situated, and helped me look at it from new angles and make new connections.

I will be a Senior Research Fellow at IFPRI, continuing working on all things at the intersection of poverty, agriculture and nutrition, with a dash of politics thrown in to complement the economic approaches.

I will continue to be based in Brighton, and will have an office at the University of Sussex's Economics Department as a visiting researcher. I will continue to work with IFPRI and IDS colleagues and look forward to meeting a whole host of new IFPRI colleagues and staying in touch with my IDS friends.

As for Development Horizon readers, you will hardly notice the change!

5 comments:

Miriam said...

Congratulations on the new posting Lawrence! Great to hear that you'll be returning to IFPRI.

Tony Simons said...

Larry came from out on the Brighton
In the boardroom he was everybody's darling
But he never lost his thread
even when he was blogging dead
He says hey baby take a walk on the wild side
Said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
and the IFPRI girls go ...
ooh, ooh , ooh, ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ...

Anonymous said...

Nice poem...

Anonymous said...

Thank goodness... The blog lives- congratulations Lawrence

Lawrence Haddad said...

Tony, you have missed your calling. Brilliant. My favourite Lou song is Street Hassle....