Dr. Prabhu Pingali

Biography

Prabhu Pingali is a professor at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University, holding an appointment in the Department of Global Development within the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS). He is the founding director of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI). Before joining Cornell, he served as deputy director of the Agricultural Development Division at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 2008 to 2013 and director of the Agriculture Development Economics Division at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization from 2002 to 2007. His background includes 15 years of work with CGIAR centers such as IRRI in the Philippines and CIMMYT in Mexico. Pingali is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, as well as a fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association. He has chaired the Governing Board of ICRISAT and has four decades of experience as an academic researcher and development practitioner, focusing on global hunger, poverty, and environmental sustainability. He has written 14 books and more than 200 refereed journal articles and book chapters in agriculture and food policy, with his work cited 30,000 times in academic literature, significantly influencing national food and agricultural policy and donor funding in developing nations, especially India. His latest book, 'Transforming Food Systems in Rising India,' has been downloaded 150,000 times and is influential among India’s food and agriculture community.

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