Naveen Sridhar Kottayil is an MPS student in the Department of Global Development at Cornell. His primary interests lie in creating forward and backward linkages for farmers and producers in order to formulate sustainable agriculture solutions and improve the incomes of Indian farmers. Naveen previously worked as a program officer for TCI in New Delhi….

Manoj Kumar is an administrative assistant for TCI in India, providing overall office management, organizing travel logistics, preparing budgets, and tracking expenses. He earned his MBA in hotel management from Punjab Technical University.

Satish Kumar is a Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Doctoral Fellow at TCI. He is a PhD student in public policy at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Satish’s PhD projects examine agriculture-nutrition linkages via agricultural diversification in semi-arid climates. His research interests span a wide range, including agriculture-nutrition linkages, sustainable agriculture, peri-urban agriculture, and rural development. Before…

Jialu Li is a research support specialist in TCI. Her primary research interest is exploring technological and innovative strategies that help accelerate the global sustainable agriculture transformation. She is also interested in the gender dimension of the transformation phase. Before joining TCI, Jialu earned her Master of Public Administration at Cornell University with a concentration…

Andrew McDonald is an associate professor in the Soil and Crop Science Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science. As a cropping systems ecologist, he addresses global challenges to agricultural sustainability and food security through process-based agronomy, integrated systems analysis, development of decision frameworks, and by fostering alliances for technology scaling. Much of Andy’s…

Dr. Ting Meng is an associate professor at the Academy of Global Food Economics and Policy (AGFEP) in the College of Economics and Management at China Agricultural University in Beijing, China. She obtained her PhD in agricultural economics from the University of Georgia and conducted postdoctoral research on environmental policy and economics at the Massachusetts…

Terry provides administrative support to TCI. She first began working at Cornell University in 1988 and has held a number of positions in various departments and colleges since then. She holds a bachelor’s degree in music/business/marketing (music merchandising). She has moonlighted as a DJ on Ithaca-area radio and has played various musical instruments in local…

Sumedha Minocha is a PhD student in the field of applied economics and management. She is interested in studying the complex ways in which food systems work in developing countries, particularly their impact on nutrition and health-related outcomes and the role of public policies in shaping these outcomes. Her research interest is motivated by five…

Dr. Bhaskar Mittra is the associate director of TCI and teaches at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). He is responsible for managing India-based operations for TCI and is the TISS Representative to the Technical Assistance and Research for Indian Nutrition and Agriculture (TARINA) Steering Committee. Dr. Mittra’s work focuses on a variety of…

Maya Nair provides administrative support to the TCI office located in the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India. She has been working with TCI since 2013. Maya earned her Bachelor of Commerce from Mumbai University.