Host - Sanat Shrivastava (CEO, Ecoholics)

Prof. Ramesh Chand is currently Member of NITI Aayog & the Fifteenth Finance Commission (in the rank and status of Union Minister of State).  He has a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi.  He is Fellow, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Indian Society of Agricultural Economics. Prof. Chand has over three decades of experience in research and teaching in the field of agricultural economics and policy. He has been involved in policy formulation for the agriculture sector for the last two decades.   Prior to joining NITI Aayog, he was Director National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, New Delhi. In addition, Prof. Ramesh Chand is also Member of: Board of Trustees (BOT) of CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center), Mexico and The Policy Advisory Council (PAC) of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Canberra, Australia.