Uma Lele

Uma Lele
Born (1941-08-28) 28 August 1941 (age 83) [1]
Koregaon, Satara, India
EducationPune University, Cornell University
Scientific career
InstitutionsWorld Bank. Institute of Economic Growth
External videos
video icon "Uma Lele: Food for all: International organizations and the transformation of agriculture", Cornell 2022
video icon Responding to water scarcities – Keynote – Dr. Uma Lele, MIT Water Summit, 2020
video icon Does India have an agrarian crisis?, Uma Lele, IFPRI, 22 March 2019

Uma Lele (born 28 August 1941; Koregaon, Satara, India)[1] is an agricultural economist, currently at the Institute of Economic Growth at the University of Delhi, India.[2] She has spent much of her career working with the World Bank and other international organizations.[3][1]

Through her field research and work on operations, policy analysis, and evaluation, Lele has assessed the impact of development assistance; including in China, India and Africa.[3][1] Her work improved interventions, such as the World Bank's Forest Strategy (2002) and the work of CGIAR.[4][2] She has been called “a leader in the world of economic development and a brilliant researcher" who "supports her theories with rigorous empirical analysis" based on rich data sets.[3]

Lele was elected a Fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) in 1999.[5] In July 2018 Uma Lele became president-elect of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE).[6] In 2021 she succeeded to the position of president of the IAAE (a three-year term), the first woman to hold that position.[7][8]

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  7. ^ "Matin Qaim". International Association of Agricultural Economists. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  8. ^ "PRESS RELEASE: NEWLY ELECTED IAAE BOARD OF DIRECTORS". News & Press: IAAE Announcements. July 30, 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2022.