Dr. P K Joshi superannuated as the Director-South Asia, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC. Prior to this he was holding the positions of the Director, ICAR-National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, and the Director of the ICAR-National Centre of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research. After his superannuation, he is serving as the Policy Adviser to the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization, Harvest Plus of the CGIAR; Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research; and the BAIF Development Research Foundation. He is also officiating as Honorary Director of the Agroeconomic Research Centre-Delhi. He has extensively worked towards transforming agriculture and market integration in India, and many south and southeast Asian countries.
Dr Joshi has received the following awards: Dr M S Randhawa Memorial Award of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Dr RC Agarwal Life Time Achievement Award of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics for his outstanding contribution in social science and agricultural economics research and management; the Life Time Achievement Award of the Pantnagar Alumni Almamater Advancement Association; and the Global Leadership Award by the Indian Chambers of Food and Agriculture. He is the Fellow of the (1) National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, (2) Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, (3) Indian Society of Agricultural Engineering, and (4) International Society of Noni Research. He has published more than ten books and several journal articles in national and international journals of repute.
Dr Joshi was President-elect of Indian Society of Agricultural Economics; Conference President of Indian Society of Agricultural Marketing; Conference President of Agricultural Economics Research Association-Indi; Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences; and Secretary-General of the 4th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture. He is presently the President of the Agricultural Economics Research Association (AERA); and the Secretary of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS). Dr Joshi has also served as the chairman of the SAARC Agricultural Centre’s governing board in Dhaka, Bangladesh; chairman of the UN-CAPSA governing board in Bogor; member of the BRICSAgriculture group; and member of the intergovernmental panel on the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development. He served as a member of the International Steering Committee for the Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Challenge Program, led by the ESSP Science Community and the CGIAR. He was a member of the core group of the Indian government’s “Right to Food” National Human Rights Commission. He was also a member of the ‘Speaker’s Research Initiative’, a committee constituted by the Hon’ble Speaker of the Parliament, Government of India to regularly interact with ministers and Members of Parliaments. Recently, he was also nominated as one of the four members committee constituted by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India to provide solutions on Farm Reforms 2020.
Dr. P K Joshi superannuated as the Director-South Asia, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC. Prior to this he was holding the positions of the Director, ICAR-National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, and the Director of the ICAR-National Centre of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research. After his superannuation, he is serving as the Policy Adviser to the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization, Harvest Plus of the CGIAR; Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research; and the BAIF Development Research Foundation. He is also officiating as Honorary Director of the Agro-economic Research CentreDelhi. He has extensively worked towards transforming agriculture and market integration in India, and many south and southeast Asian countries.
Dr. Joshi has been receiving awards from different agricultural economic societies for his outstanding contribution in social science and agricultural economic research and management. He has published more than ten books and several journal articles in national and international journals of repute. He also holds Chairmanship of the SAARC Agricultural Centre’s governing board in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the UN-CAPSA governing board in Bogor, and other committee memberships.