Padmakumar Varijakshapanicker
Senior research management coordinator and Country representative Nepal
Padmakumar Varijakshapanicker is an animal production specialist working with ILRI for more than 15 years and currently holding the position of ILRI Country Representative for Nepal. Padmakumar is a post-graduate in Tropical Animal Production & Health, graduated from the Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, U.K. He has been working in the livestock sector for more than three decades, mostly with international organizations. He brings with him an impressive global research for development experience, covering fifteen years in the dairy development sector, during which he designed, led, implemented and monitored multilateral projects funded by various donors. Besides, he has five years of experience in livestock sector policy facilitation and ten years with ILRI in managing dairy animal, small ruminant and pig research for development projects and an NIRS Feed Technology Research Platform. His expertise include: Feed Technologies, Policy Facilitation and Scaling.
