Mangi Lal Jat

Dr. ML Jat is a well-recognized Systems Agronomist with over 25 years of rich experience in Systems Science across the developing world. As a Global Research Program Director for Resilient Farm and Food Systems (RF & FS) program of ICRISAT, Dr Jat leads and provides scientific, strategic and partnership guidance to dynamic and vibrant research teams of the program across five clusters – Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Science, Geo-spatial and Big Data Sciences, Digital Agriculture, Landscapes, soil health and water science and ICRISAT Development Center. In addition, he also catalyzes cross program linkages. Dr Jat has served CGIAR for 13 years; over 12 years at CIMMYT as Principal Scientist/System Agronomist and System Science Strategy Lead and one year at the IRRI and for 12 years at Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) as Systems Agronomist.