A.R. Prasad

A.R. Prasad is a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company. He is a Retired Chief Scientist and Head of the Department of the Centre for Semiochemicals, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad, India.

He has graduated from Prestigious Silver Jubilee Government College (B.Sc.) at Kurnool, S.V. University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh and obtained his Postgraduate degree (M.Sc., Chemistry) from erstwhile University of Roorkee at present IIT Roorkee in 1978.

Later on, he was awarded CSIR Research Fellowship to work for his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at Regional Research Laboratory [RRL(H)] now called IICT, Hyderabad, and thereafter he obtained his Doctorate degree in 1985 from the University of Roorkee ( at present IIT Roorkee).

He then joined CSIR- IICT, Hyderabad [then RRL(H)] in 1984 as Scientist B and grew up to Chief Scientist and lead the R & D group Center for Semiochemicals at IICT.

He has 120 publications and 10 patents to his credit. He has contributed chapters on insect pheromones for two text books. He is the recipient of The Royal Netherlands Fellowship from Ministry of Netherlands in 1990 at TNO and Marie Curie Fellowship from Commission of European Community (CEC) to work in Barcelona, Spain in 1994.

He has also received visiting scientist awards in 2004 from the Ministry of Spain, in 2009 from DST to work in Argentina in Indo Argentine collaborative project, and in 2010 to work at Rutgers University, USA.

For the last two decades as an Advisory Consultant, he has rendered his services to Chemical Industries in the process development of various Organic Intermediates of both Pharmaceuticals and Agrochemicals importance.