Purvi Mehta-Bhatt

Personal Information
Full Name: Purvi Mehta-Bhatt
Position: Head –Asia Region
My email address: p.mehta@cgiar.org
Telephone: +254 20 422 3030
Other profile

Purvi joined ILRI on 01 January 2009 as the Capacity Strengthening Officer in Partnerships and Communications’ Capacity Strengthening and Training Programme (CaST).

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Director of Science Ashram working with more than 60,000 farmers in India.

• Country coordinator for South Asia Biosafety Program supported by IFPRI and USAID.

• One of the Global authors for International Assessment for Agriculture Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development.

• One of the three members of the expert committee formed by the CGIAR secretariat to review CGIAR-CSO program.

• Given talks, conducted workshops on capacity development issues, technology transfer and developing country farmers’ issues in over 27 international meetings in 11 countries and several international organizations including the World Bank, CGIAR secretariat, FAO, OECD.
My ILRI office location
ILRI-India