Professor Pramod Kumar Joshi superannuated as the Director-South Asia, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), India. Prior to this post, he held the position of Director, ICAR-National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, and Director of the ICAR-National Centre of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research. He is presently the President of the Agricultural Economics Research Association (AERA); and the Secretary of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), and serves as Policy Advisers to the World Bank, the FAO, Harvest Plus of the CGIAR; ACIAR; and the BAIF Development Research Foundation.

Professor Joshi has extensively been working on agriculture transformation and market integration in India, and many South and Southeast Asian countries. To date, he has published more than ten books and several journal articles in national and international journals of repute. Professor Joshi has received a lot of awards, which include Dr. MS Randhawa Memorial Award of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Dr. RC Agarwal Life Time Achievement Award of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics; 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.