Claudia Ringler

Deputy Division Director, Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute

Claudia Ringler is Deputy Division Director of the Environment and Production Technology Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute. She co-leads the Institute’s water research program and is also a flagship leader of the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Lands and Ecosystems. Her research interests are water resources management–in particular, river basin management–and agricultural and natural resource policies for developing countries. Over the last 10 years she has also undertaken research on the impacts of global warming for developing country agriculture and on appropriate adaptation and mitigation options. She recently completed two research projects on gender, collective action and climate change and how to increase women’s resilience to climate change.