Dr Ravi Khetarpal
Dr Ravi Khetarpal has been appointed as Executive Secretary, APAARI and he will
take up this challenging assignment effective first week of August 2017. He served CABI – South Asia (India) as Regional Director and also as its Regional Advisor on Strategic Science Partnerships over a span of seven years. Prior to this he worked for
National Agricultural Research System in India for three decades. He holds PhD in Life Sciences (Virology) from University of Paris and was a isiting Scientist in an EU Collaborative Project at INRA, Versailles, France for three years.
His areas of interest includes research, development, policy issues and capacity building in areas of
biosecurity, biosafety, seed certification and biodiversity. He has worked as
consultant of twelve FAO/World Bank Projects notably in Indonesia (as Team
Leader), India, Nepal, Mauritius and Cambodia. He represents Asia as Developing
Country SPS Expert in STDF Working Group in WTO. He has published 110 research
papers, 19 books, 56 book chapters, 12 review articles and 3 policy papers. APAARI
welcomes him and looks forward to enhanced APAARI progress under his dynamic
leadership.
