Uma Lele

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

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. Her work improved interventions, such as the World Bank's Forest Strategy (2002) and the work of CGIAR. 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.

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