Stanley Wood is a Senior Program Officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to that he was a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC, where he worked on or led a variety of intiatives, including impact assessment studies for agricultural research, spatial analysis in a policy context, generating knowledge products to help guide strategic investments in improving cropping system productivity and profitability in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. A British citizen, Stanley earned his M.Sc. in water resources development from the University of Birmingham, his M.Sc. in agricultural development from the University of London, and his Ph.D. in economics, also from the University of London.