Klaus von Grebmer joined the International Food Policy Research Institute as Director of the Communications Division in 1999.

Von Grebmer worked for over 26 years in the private sector as a consultant, health economist, and senior manager in communications.

During 1998, von Grebmer joined the World Bank Executive Staff Exchange Program as a Principal Operations Officer in rural development.

In 1999, von Grebmer joined the International Food Policy Research Institute as Director of Communication and stayed in that position until 2011.

He encouraged the author Doris Wiesmann who wrote an initial research paper on indexing hunger under the leadership of Joachim von Braun to move in this direction.