PROFESSOR Dinesh Marothia, a renowned agriculture and natural resources economist has been elected as the President of Indian Society of Agriculture Economics (ISAE). During the 81st Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics (ISAE), the Annual General Body, which met at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra (Jammu) unanimously elected Professor Marothia as president for a period of three years. Professor Marothia is presently National Co-ordinator National Institute of Ecology, a Centre for Integrated Natural Resource Management and on the Technical Advisory Board as Member of Global Ever Greening Alliance, an international collaborative platform to Restore South Asia (supported by UN Organisations).

 

Among many distinguished positions in academic, Federal and state governments professional societies and international organisations, he was Chairman, Commission for Agriculture Costs and Prices, Government of India, Member Chhattisgarh State Planning Commission (GOCG), Founder Director of India Natural Resource Economics and Management Foundation, Decentralisation Expert and Team Leader of European Commission SPP-Chhattisgarh-India, Senior Fellow at World Agroforestry Centre - South Asia Region, Founder Chair of SRC-CG (MoHRD, GoI), Member/Chair of various committees of erstwhile Planning Commission (GoI), ICAR Institutions, management institutions, academic committees of central and state universities, Founder Professor and Head of Department of Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics (IGKV, Raipur) and two terms President of National Institute of Ecology (New Delhi). He served as team leader, advisor and consultant in many national and international projects and visited Canada, USA, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Thailand, China, Nepal, Maldives, Kenya, Singapore and UK for academic activities. He has extensively researched in the area of natural and environmental resource economics and management, rural development and livelihoods options.