Dr Anjani Kumar is currently a Senior Research Fellow at International Food Policy Research Institute, South Asia Office, New Delhi. He received his Ph.D. (1999) and Masters (1992) in Dairy Economics from National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, India. Before joining to IFPRI, he was Principal Scientist (Agricultural Economics) at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Hyderabad. Earlier, he has served as Principal Scientist at National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, New Delhi and as Senior Agricultural Economist in the Asia Office of International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi. He has also worked as a consultant for many national and international institutions including FAO and World Bank. He has made significant contributions to agricultural economics and policy research. He wrote about 150 research papers in national and international research journals on various agricultural development issues and contributed more than seventy papers/chapters to important books and proceedings. His contributions have been well recognized, and he is a Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) of India and the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics (ISAE). He got several awards from national and international organizations, including the prestigious Rafi Ahmad Kidwai Award (2017), Lal Bahadur Shastri Young Scientist Award (2005); and NAAS Young Scientist Award (2003).