Sukhpal Singh Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India
Dr. Sukhpal Singh is Professor, Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Former Chairperson, CMA, IIMA; Former Director General, Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID) Chandigarh, and Former Professor and Head, Agricultural Economic Research Unit (AERU), Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), New Delhi. He has been with IIMA for the last 17 years and before that worked with the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) for 12 years as faculty.
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 the Founding Editor, Millennial Asia-an intl. journal of Asian studies, published by Sage.
He has 12 books and more than 150 research papers in international/national journals/edited books.
He has been 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).
He has been a member of various committees/working groups of the Planning Commission of India/NITI Aayog, the National Development Council, the Food Safety Standards Authority of India, and the EC of the Mission on Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH).
He 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.
Areas of expertise: agri value chains, contract farming, agricultural output markets, farmer producer companies, agri input markets, and agricultural policy and reforms
Areas of interest: small producer and worker livelihoods and organisation of such stakeholders in the context of agribusiness value chains and deregulation of agricultural markets in India and the developing world.
