KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

1st ASIA-PACIFIC CONGRESS ON ALTERNATE CROPS - 2024

# Name Designation & Institution
1Prof. Ashwani Pareekh,Director, DBT-NABI, Punjab & Adjunct Professor, University of Western Australia, Australia
2Prof. Manoj Prasad,Delhi University, Delhi & Adjunct Professor, University of Hyderabad, India 
3Dr. J. C. Rana,National Coordinator (India), Biodiversity International, New Delhi, India
4Dr. ArunavaPattanayakEx-Director, ICAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Ranchi, India
5Prof. Bidyut SharmaDirector, DBT Centre for Agricultural Biotechnology, AAU, Jorhat, India
6Dr. J.L. KarihalooFormer Coordinator, Asia Pacific Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology (APCoAB), APAARI.New Delhi, India
7Prof. Manoj DharDirector, CSIR- AcCSIR, New Delhi
8Prof. KadambotSidiqueHackett Professor of Agriculture Chair and Director, The UWA Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
9Dr. T. SatyavathiDirector, ICAR-National Millets Research Institute, Hyderabad
10Prof. Meilliang ZhouInstitute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
11Prof. S. K. BarikDept of Botany, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India
12Prof Sun He WooChungbak National University, South Korea
13Dr Avtar MaltooBeltsville Agricultural Research Center, USDA, USA
14Prof Chittaranjan KoleFormer VC, CKV, Kolkata; Ex-Director of Research, Institute of Nutraceutical Research, Clemson University, USA
15Dr Dipak SantraDept of Agronomy & Horticulture University of Nebraska, USA
16Dr P Jeff MaughanBringham Young University, USA
17Padma Shree Prof. S. K. SoporyFormer Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
18Dr. Jawaharlal KarihalooFormer Coordinator, Asia Pacific Consortium onAgricultural Biotechnology.New Delhi, India
19Dr. Subash BabuICAR-IARI, PUSA, New Delh
20Prof. Ivan Kreft, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
21Prof. Umesh ReddyWest Virginia State University, USA
22Prof. Tatsuro SuzukiNARO, Tsukuba, Japan
23Dr. Bal Krishna JoshiNAGRC, Kathmandu, Nepal
24Prof. Wricha TyagiInternational Crops Research Inst. for Semi Arid Tropics, Hyderabad 
25Prof. Mateja GermUniversity of Ljubljana, Slovenia
26Dr. Blanka VombergerCentre for Food Technology, Maribor, Slovenia
27Dr. Sushil Subedi, Agriculture Research Station, Vijaynagar, Nepal
28Prof. Rakhee ChaturvediIIT, Guwahati