Prof. Sukhpal Singh
Ph.D.(Economics), Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, Bangalore University, Bangalore.
M.Phil. (Applied Economics), Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapurum (Kerala), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi
Sukhpal Singh is Professor, and former Chairperson, Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Former Director General, Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID) Chandigarh, and Former Professor and Head, Agril. Eco. Res. Unit, Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), New Delhi.
He is founding co-editor, Millennial Asia-an intl. journal of Asian studies, and a member of the editorial boards of many national and international journals. He has 12 books, the latest being: Institutional innovations in the delivery of farmer services in India (2018, Springer), and more than 140 research papers in international/national journals/edited books, and more than 90 review articles/articles in popular dailies/magazines, to his credit. He has been conferred the title of the Fellow of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics for his contributions to the discipline and the Society in 2018. He is on the boards of many non-profits working in the agri and rural space. He has delivered more than 80 national and international Key Note Addresses/Special/Invited Lectures/Valedictory Addresses/Panel Talks and presented more than 130 papers in various conferences, workshops and seminars in India and abroad.
He was a visiting fellow at the IDS, Sussex (the UK), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (Thailand), the University of Manchester (the UK); and the Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), and a member of various committees/working groups of the Planning Commission of India/NITI, the National Development Council, the Food Safety Standards Authority of India, and the EC of the Mission on Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH). He is a member of the expert group on agriculture and allied activities of the Niti Aayog, and was a member of the standing working group on agri and allied sectors of Chhattisgarh State Planning Commission, and the committee for FPO policy for Punjab and committee on MSP and other mechanisms for farmers in Chhattisgarh. He has provided research support to international agencies like ADB, FAO, ILO, ICCO, IFAD, International Trade Centre of the UN, Traidcraft, and the World Bank.
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