Aslihan Arslan is a senior research economist at the Research and Impact Assessment Division of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
She leads multiple research projects related to agricultural productivity, climate resilience, rural migration and the climate change mitigation potential of
agricultural practices promoted by IFAD and others.

She also leads selected impact assessments of IFAD projects related to these themes. She is one of the
co-leads of the 2019 Rural Development Report on “Creating Opportunities for Rural Youth.” Prior to joining IFAD in 2017, Aslihan worked as a natural resource
economist for FAO, focusing primarily on climate-smart agriculture.

She holds a PhD and an MSc in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California at Davis.