Abdullah Mamun, PhD

Education

• PhD in Economics, University of Bordeaux, France (defense completed on 30 July 2025)
• MS (Economics), University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA, 2015
• M.Sc. (Statistics), Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, 2000

Teaching

• Adjunct Professor, University of District of Columbia (UDC), Washington DC, since Aug 2025. Teaching R and Statistics

Certificate in Data Analytics

Completed six months long certificate program on Data Analytics and Visualization, from George Washington University, 2017. Courses include R, Python, JavaScript, Big Data and Machine Learning

Employment Record

• Since Nov 2025 Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Washington DC
• 2017-2025          Senior Research Analyst, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA
• Since 2025         Adjunct Faculty, University of District of Columbia (UDC), Washington DC
• 2016                     Consultant, World Bank, Washington DC
• 2015-2016          Consultant, International Finance Corporation (IFC), Washington DC

Journal Articles

• Martin, W., Mamun, A., and Minot, N. 2026. Food trade policy and food price volatility. Agricultural Economics, forthcoming
• Mamun, A., and Laborde, D. 2025. Role of international price and domestic inflation in triggering export restrictions on food commodities. Agricultural Economics (early view).
•  Mamun, A. 2024. Impact of farm subsidies on global agricultural productivity. Agricultural Economics, 55(2): 346-364.
• Laborde, D., Mamun, A., Martin, W. Piñeiro, V. and Vos, R. 2021. Agricultural subsidies and global greenhouse gas emissions. Nature Communications 12, Article #2601
• Mamun, A., Martin, W. & Tokgoz, S. 2021. Reforming agricultural support for improved environmental outcomes. Appl Econ Perspect Policy, 1-30.
• Jawoo, K., Mamun, A., & Martin, W. 2021. From bad to worse: Poverty impacts of food availability responses to weather shocks in Zambia. Agricultural Economics 52(5), 833-847.

Reports, blogs, and other publications

• Scholtz, L., Eber Rose, M., Laborde, D., Mamun, A., Nhean, S., Olivetti, E., Phanith, C. Phoeuk, R., Smaller, C., Sok, K. and Tung, A. 2025. Transforming Agrifood Systems in Cambodia: What Are the Priorities and How Much Will It Cost? Shamba Centre for Food & Climate. Geneva, Switzerland.

• Maminiaina, L., Eber-Rose, M., Laborde, D., Mamun, A., Olivetti, E., Picard, F., Pineiro, V., Scholtz, L., and Smaller, C. 2025. Madagascar’s National Roadmap to Support the Transformation of Food Systems: What Are the Priorities and How Much Will it Cost? Shamba Centre for Food & Climate. Geneva, Switzerland
•  Chikolwa, K., Eber-Rose, M., Laborde, D., Mamun, A., Mwale, L., Olivetti, E., Picard, F., Pineiro, V., Scholtz, L., Siwale, C., and Smaller, C. 2025. Transforming Agrifood Systems in Zambia: What Are the Priorities and How Much Will It Cost? Shamba Centre for Food & Climate. Geneva, Switzerland.
•  Picard, F., Eber Rose, M., Gbedomon, R.C., Kpanou, B.V., Lukanda Lukusa, M., Maminiaina, L., Mamun, A., Olivetti, E., & Smaller, C. (2025). Feuille de Route des Systemes Alimentaires en Republique Democratique du Congo: Quelles sont les priorites ? Shamba Centre for Food & Climate. Geneve, Suisse.
• Mamun, A., and Glauber, J. 2025. How countries have coped with recent agricultural trade disruptions. IFPRI Issue Post. IFPRI, Washington DC.
• Glauber, J., and Mamun, A. 2024. Global rice markets: current outlooks and future prospects. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2310. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.
• Glauber, J., and Mamun, A. 2024. India lifts export restrictions on rice. IFPRI Issue Post. IFPRI, Washington DC.
• Glauber, J., and Mamun, A. 2024. After a year, India’s rice export restrictions continue to fuel high prices. IFPRI Issue Post. IFPRI, Washington DC.
• Martin, W., Mamun, A., Minot, N., and Vos, R. 2024. Trade policy and food price volatility: Beggar thy neighbor or beggar thyself? IFPRI Research Post. IFPRI, Washington DC.
• Martin, W., Mamun, A., and Minot, N. 2024. Food trade policy and food price volatility. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2253. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute
• Mamun, A., and Laborde, D. 2024. Role of international price and domestic inflation in triggering export restrictions on food commodities. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2246, Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute
• Mamun, A. 2024. Farm subsidies and global agricultural productivity. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2245, Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute
• Glauber, J., and Mamun, A. 2024. Global cocoa market sees steep price rise amid supply shortfall. IFPRI Issue Post. IFPRI, Washington DC.
• Underwood, A., Dimaranan, B., Mamun, A., and Vos, R. 2024. Shaping global agendas: The IFPRI Food Security Portal’s pathways to impact. IFPRI Issue Post. IFPRI, Washington DC.
• Glauber, J., and Mamun, A. 2024. India’s export restrictions on rice continue to disrupt global markets, supplies, and prices. IFPRI Issue Post. IFPRI, Washington DC.
• Glauber, J., and Mamun, A. 2024. Impacts of Red Sea shipping disruptions on global food security. IFPRI Issue Post. IFPRI, Washington DC.
• Glauber, J., and Mamun, A. 2023. Déjà vu all over again: Global sugar markets roiled by El Niño, biofuels and trade policies. IFPRI Issue Post. IFPRI, Washington DC.
• Glauber, J., and Mamun, A. 2023. Global rice markets face stresses from El Niño, India export restrictions. IFPRI Issue Post. IFPRI, Washington DC.
• Glauber, J., and Mamun, A. 2023. India’s new ban on rice exports: Potential threats to global supply, prices, and food security. IFPRI Issue Post. IFPRI, Washington DC.
• Laborde, D., Lallemant, T., Majeed, F. Mamun, A., Martin, W., and Tokgoz, S. 2023. Introducing the updated AgIncentives Database. AgIncentives Working Paper, IFPRI, Washington DC. https://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/136729
• Laborde, D. and A. Mamun. 2023. “When policy responses make things worse: The case of export restrictions on agricultural products” in ‘Fostering Resilient Global Supply Chains Amid Risk and Uncertainty’. Tokyo: Asian Development Bank Institute. Available: https://doi.org/10.56506/ATQY8548
• Mamun, A., and Glauber, J. 2023. Rice markets in South and Southeast Asia face stresses from El Niño, export restrictions. IFPRI Issue Post. IFPRI, Washington DC.
• Glauber, J., Laborde, D., and Mamun, A. 2023. Food export restrictions have eased as the Russia-Ukraine war continues, but concerns remain for key commodities. IFPRI Issue Post. IFPRI, Washington DC.
• Glauber, J., Laborde, D., Mamun, A., Olivetti, E., and Piñeiro, V. 2022. “MC12: how to make the WTO relevant in the middle of a food price crisis”. IFPRI Issue Post. IFPRI, Washington DC.
• Glauber, J., Laborde, D., and Mamun, A. 2022. The impact of the Ukraine crisis on the global vegetable oil market. IFPRI Issue Post. IFPRI, Washington DC.
• Mamun, A., Glauber, J., and Laborde, D. 2022. How the war in Ukraine threatens Bangladesh’s food security. IFPRI Issue Post. IFPRI, Washington DC.
• Glauber, J., Laborde, D., and Mamun, A. 2022. From bad to worse: How Russia-Ukraine war related export restrictions exacerbate global food security. IFPRI Issue Post. IFPRI, Washington DC.
• Laborde, D., and Mamun, A. 2022. Documentation for food and fertilizers export restriction trackers: Tracking export policy responses affecting global food markets during crisis. IFPRI Working Paper 2. IFPRI, Washington DC.
• Martin, W., Ivanic, M., and Mamun, A. 2021. “Modeling development policies with multiple objectives”. Mimeo, IFPRI.
• Gautam, M., Laborde, D., Mamun, A., Martin, W. Piñeiro, V. and Vos, R. 2022. ‘Repurposing agricultural policies and support: options to transform agriculture and food systems to better serve the health of people, economies and the planet’.  World Bank, Washington DC
• Vos, R., Mamun, A., Traore, F., and Laborde, D. 2021. “Agricultural transformations in Asia: An overview of recent experiences” in Agricultural transformation in Asia – Policy and institutional experiences. FAO. 2021. Bangkok.
• Laborde, D., Mamun, A., Martin, W., Piñeiro, V. & Vos, R. 2020. ‘Modeling the Impacts of Agricultural Support Policies on Emission from Agriculture’. NBER Working Paper No. w27202. Massachusetts.
• Laborde, David; Mamun, Abdullah; Martin, Will; Pineiro, Valeria; Vos, Rob. 2020. ‘Modeling the Impacts of Agricultural Support Policies on Emissions from Agriculture’. Agriculture and Food Discussion Paper; World Bank, Washington, DC.
• Jawoo, K., Mamun, A., & Martin, W. 2020. From bad to worse: Poverty impacts of food availability responses to weather shocks in Zambia. IFPRI Discussion Paper 01923, Washington DC.
• Mamun, A., Martin, W. and Tokgoz, S. 2019. ‘Reform­ing Agricultural Subsidies for Improved Environmental Outcomes’. IFPRI Discussion Paper 01891, Washington DC.
• Mamun, A. Chapoto, A., Chisanga, B., D’Alessandro, S., Koo, J., Martin, W. and Samboko, P. 2018. Assessment of the Impacts of El Niño and Grain Trade Policy Responses in East and Southern Africa to the 2015–16 Event, World Bank.
• FAO and IFPRI. 2020. Progress towards ending hunger and malnutrition. A cross-country cluster analysis. FAO, Rome.
• Apell, D., Laborde, D., Mamun, A. and Martin, W. 2021. Prioritizing Agriculture-Related Research and Innovation for Growth and Poverty Reduction in Rwanda, Mimeo, IFPRI.
• Laborde, D., Mamun, A., and Parent, M. 2020. Documentation for the COVID-19 food trade policy tracker: Tracking government responses affecting global food markets during the COVID-19 crisis. IFPRI Working Paper 1. Washington DC.

Book chapters

• Five Issue Posts are published in various chapters in the book by Glauber, Joseph W.; and Laborde Debucquet, David, eds. 2023. The Russia-Ukraine conflict and global food security. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294394

Data and Evaluation Works

• POVANA – a multi-country household survey database in MySQL, named POVANA. The database contains processed data of household income, production, and consumption expenditure for 35 countries, with 600,000 households.
• Worked on building household accounts in the Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Honduras in 2024.
• Conducted ex-ante impact assessment of IFC’s investment projects in Philippines and Nigeria based on Input-Output model. The assessment was done on computing SAM multipliers of investment in power and chemical sector on output and job creation (mainly induced jobs).
• AgIncentives Consortium (2023). https://www.agincentives.org/nominal-rate-of-assistance-nra/(Accessed on: <date>) based on data from OECD, FAO, IDB and World Bank compiled by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• Laborde, D., & Mamun, A. (2022). Global database on Nominal Rate of Assistance (NRA) in Agriculture: 1961-2018. IFPRI, Washington DC.
• Lead IFPRI’s Food and Fertilizer Export Restriction Tracker https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/ifpri.food.security.portal/viz/shared/2CPYTB4G8
• Laborde, D. & Mamun, A. (2022). Food and fertilizer export restrictions during the Ukraine-Russa crisis. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTBH0AbRa8aL-E6uHtsiRBwx5-ZuGUExikKSaQoxh7sYYJFtekOGQClUPblyUZpqyW27USuyqzCQNf6/pub?gid=296608313&single=true&output=csv
• Prepared database of countries’ COVI19 response by web scraping in Python from ‘https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/imf-and-covid19/Policy-Responses-to-COVID-19’. The task was done for data visualization in Tableau to track policy responses in the area of trade, macro monetary and fiscal space.

Workshop/Conference Presentation

• Presented ‘Tariff war: lessons from the past retaliation and implications of currents measures for food security in Southeast Asia’ at webinar titled ‘Will the Tariff War Lead to Another Global Food Crisis?’ organized by RSIS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, 29 May 2025.

• Presented ‘When policy responses make things worse: The case of export restrictions on agricultural products’ at 32^nd International Conference of Agricultural Economists, New Delhi, India
• Presented IFPRI’s Food and Fertilizer Export Restriction Tracker and Effect of Rice Export Restrictions on Trade and Price in a seminar titled ‘Asia and the Pacific Food Security Forum 2024’, organized by Asian Development Bank on 12 April 2024.
• Presented research paper ‘Role of international price and domestic inflation in triggering export restrictions on food commodities’ at RISE Conference 2023, organized by IFPRI
• Presented ‘Global Rice Market and Export Restrictions’ in a seminar titled ‘Strengthening Food Security in Southeast Asia: Regional Cooperation, Market Development and Policy Reforms’, organized by Asian Development Bank (ADB), Philippines, on 20 Oct 2023.
• Presented ‘Impact of Export Restrictions in Rice Market’ in the IFPRI – AMIS seminar series “A Look at Global Rice Markets: Export Restrictions, El Niño, and Price Controls” event held on October 18, 2023
• Presented IFPRI’s Food and Fertilizer Export Restriction Tracker to WTO Delegates in a webinar titled ‘Export Restrictions Rules to Promote Global Food Security in the Context of Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events’, organized by IISD and IFPRI on 29 September 2023.
• Mamun, A. (2022). ‘Incidence of Farm Subsidy in Global Agricultural Productivity’. RISE Conference 2022. IFPRI, Washington DC.
• Martin, W., Ivanic, M., and Mamun, A. (2021). ‘Modeling Development Policies with Multiple Objectives’. Presentation at RISE Conference, IFPRI, 2021.
• Laborde, D. and Mamun, A. (2019), ‘Global Database on Nominal Rate of Protection in Agriculture: 1955-2017’, PowerPoint Presentation, at Annual Meeting of International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC), 10 December.
• Koo, J., Mamun, A., and Martin, W. (2019). “Food Availability Policies, Output Shocks & Poverty: Zambia and 2015/16 El Niño”. RISE Conference, IFPRI, Washington DC.

Media Coverage of Research Works

• Spoked to Anne-Sophie of Deutsche Welle about basmati rice seed piracy, and trade war between India and Pakistan https://x.com/dwnews/status/1779410510586524131
• Spoke with Deutsche Welle on Suez Canal shipping disruption caused by Houthi attack and the implications on food security and trade cost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfM0vorFlw
• Spoke with BBC World Service about global rice market, export restrictions and food security https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct4mv6
• Spoke with NPR host Scott Simon for the Weekend Edition Saturdayabout Indian export policies and what prompted the disruption in rice crops in 2023. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1196170840
• Interviewed by AP News about the global rice market and the likely impact of El Nino. AP published a news article where they quoted me directly. https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-el-nino-rice-ukraine-c094d60a613a9bb861505130fb4958c4

Education

• PhD in Economics, University of Bordeaux, France (defense completed on 30 July 2025)
• MS (Economics), University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA, 2015
• M.Sc. (Statistics), Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, 2000

Teaching

• Adjunct Professor, University of District of Columbia (UDC), Washington DC, since Aug 2025. Teaching R and Statistics

Certificate in Data Analytics

Completed six months long certificate program on Data Analytics and Visualization, from George Washington University, 2017. Courses include R, Python, JavaScript, Big Data and Machine Learning

Employment Record

• Since Nov 2025 Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Washington DC
• 2017-2025          Senior Research Analyst, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA
• Since 2025         Adjunct Faculty, University of District of Columbia (UDC), Washington DC
• 2016                     Consultant, World Bank, Washington DC
• 2015-2016          Consultant, International Finance Corporation (IFC), Washington DC

Computing Skills

• Programming:                            R, Python, STATA, GAMS
• Data Visualization:                     Tableau, Datawrapper
• Database Management:            MySQL

Training & Certificates

• Attended 12 weeks long training on Introduction to CGE modelling and MIRAGRODEP, a global CGE model, IFPRI, 2019.
• Attended a training ‘Introduction to Poverty Analysis and STATA’ jointly organized by the World Bank Institute (WBI) and BIDS, Dhaka, 2002.

Countries of experience

• Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, United States
   

Other Activities and Awards

• Member, Agricultural and Applied Economic Association (AAEA)
• Member, International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE)
• Member, American Economic Association (AEA)