About

Prabhu Pingali is a Professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University, with an appointment in the Department of Global Development (CALS). He is the Founding Director of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI). Prior to joining Cornell, he was Deputy Director for the Agricultural Development Division of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 2008 through May 2013. Previous to that, he was Director of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s Agriculture and Development Economics Division from 2002-2007.

In addition, he worked with the CGIAR for 15 years from 1987 to 2002, first with IRRI in the Philippines and then with CIMMYT in Mexico. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA). He has also served as Chair of the Governing Board of ICRISAT.

He has over four decades of experience as an academic researcher and development practitioner focused on addressing the problems of global hunger, poverty and environmental sustainability. Dr. Pingali has written 14 books and over 200 refereed journal articles and book chapters on agriculture and food policy. His work has been cited approximately 30,000 times in the academic literature and has influenced national food and agricultural policy and donor funding of several developing nations, including India. His latest book, “Transforming food systems for a rising India”, has been downloaded 150 thousand times and has been very influential in India’s food and agriculture community.