Vijay Paul Sharma

Prof. Sharma is a Professor in Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA) at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA). Prof. Sharma served as Chairman, Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India, for about 9 years from June 2016 to May 2021 and July 2022 to May 2026. He has held various responsibilities at IIMA including Chairman, Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA) from 2005 to 2008 and 2010 to 2012 and Chairman, MBA in Food and Agribusiness Management (MBA-FABM) from 2002 to 2004 and 2013 to 2015.

Prof. Sharma is an eminent agribusiness management expert and policy maker with over three and half decades of rich and diverse experience. He has been deeply involved in agri-food policy formulation, analysis, and advice. His research and teaching interests include the areas of economic, market and policy issues in agri-food systems, agricultural price policy, food & nutritional security, agricultural marketing and risk management, commodity markets, etc. He has been Chairman/Member of various national and State level Committees.

Prof. Sharma has been a consultant to various national and international organizations in agri-food and development sectors. He was International Consultant for the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Regional Office for Near East, and North Africa, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia during 2015-16 and Advisor to the “USAID’s Economic Reforms Projects in Central Asian Countries” in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 2005.

He has about ten books to his credit on agri-food sector, besides over 150 publications, which include research papers in national and international journals, working papers, lead & keynote papers in national and international conferences, seminars, and workshops.