Prof. Ramesh Chand is internationally reputed Indian economistand policy expert and strategic thinker with more than four decades of experience in academic research and policy formulation in the area of agri-food and development economics. He was Member of National Institution for Transforming India, NITI Aayog, the apex think-tank of Government of India, from September 2015 to April 2026. Served as Chairman of the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi. He is also member of Integrated Partnership Board of CGIAR and the Policy Advisory Council (PAC) of the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). In the past, he was Member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission of Government of India, Member of Board of Trustees of International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico and Member of Global Future Council on the Future of Food Security and Agriculture, World Economic Forum for 2016-18 term.

Prof. Chand has a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, India. He has worked in senior academic positions like National Professor at National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, New Delhi, and Professor at Institute of Economic Growth and Punjab Agricultural University. He was Visiting Professor at University of Wollongong, NSW Australia and at Institute of Developing Economies, Chiba Shi, Japan. He has also been Consultant with international organizations such as FAO, UNDP, ESCAP, UNCTAD, Commonwealth and World Bank.Prof. Chand has authored seven books and published more than 100 research papers in the areas of agriculture growth and development, demand and supply, food policy, farmers’ issues, agricultural markets and trade.