Sukhpal Singh is Professor, and Former Chairperson, Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, Gujarat; Former Director General, Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID) Chandigarh; and Former Professor and Head, Agricultural Economic Research Unit (AERU), Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), New Delhi. He has been conferred the title of the Fellow of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics for his contributions to the discipline and the Society in 2018 and is the founding co-editor, Millennial Asia-an intl. journal of Asian studies, published by Sage. He has been visiting faculty/fellow at the IDS, Sussex (the UK), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (Thailand), the University of Manchester (the UK); and the Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), and a member of various committees/working groups of the Planning Commission of India/NITI Aayog, National Development Council, and the FSSAI.