Graduate Director for the MPPGA. He brings 27 years of experience with a mix of academia, policy research, advocacy and grassroots level development work with vulnerable segments of the communities across two continents and 3 countries. For fourteen of those years, he held leadership positions in two of the best known non-government development organizations in India. As a World Bank consultant, he analyzed public policies and designed agriculture development programs in India, Tanzania, Mozambique and Nigeria.