Team Member: Dr. Srinivasulu Rajendran

Srinivasulu Rajendran (Srini) has completed PhD in Agricultural Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India. He is an Agricultural Economist at International Potato Center (CIP), CGIAR and his workstation is based in Kampala, Uganda. At CIP, he is working on several projects focusing on sweetpotato and potato seed systems. Currently he is co-leading WP3 of the CGIAR's Seed Equal Initiative. During these projects, Rajendran is working with National Agricultural Research Institutes (NARIs) and other partners in various countries in the Eastern, Western and Southern African region to strengthen early generation seed production and business. He also provides inputs to the Monitoring & Evaluation team at CIP to develop and implement impact assessments in the field. Prior to joining CIP, he has worked with several other CGIAR centres since 2008. He was also a consultant with UN organizations between 2006-2008. Rajendran specialized in developing sustainable, scalable, gender-inclusive and bankable business models and provide support to entrepreneurs who would like to venture into agribusiness particularly vegetables, vegetatively propagated seed crops and biofortification crops.