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Prof. Selvaraj Joined in the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India on 17.1.1989 since then he has involved in teaching, research and outreach activities. He obtained post-doctoral FAO and World Bank Fellowships to undergo short time programme in Virginia Tech, USA and IIFT, New Delhi. Based on his expertise developed over the years on international trade, a new department of Trade and Intellectual Property was established in the University during April, 2010 and he was chairing the department for four years. He became Adjunct Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand. He was nominated by the Honourable President of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh and Chancellor of Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh as expert member for the selection committee in appointment of professors and associate professors in the department of Agricultural Economics. He participated several international and national conferences/ seminars as an invitee. He was instrumental in obtaining the Intellectual Property Award among the various institutes in India, 2013 to TNAU from the Ministry Commerce and Industry for filing inventions of social and environmental impact. A Ponni trade mark case was handled by him on behalf of TNAU in association with APEDA and he was instrumental in winning the Ponni rice trade mark for India. He completed more than 30 research projects during his tenure and received research grant to an extent of more than Rs.23 million from the various donors in the field of technology impact assessment, marketing, international trade and IP. Research projects resulted in publication of many research papers and research papers were referred and cited extensively as evident from my H index (12). Acted as one of the expert members for preparation of Agricultural Policy for Tamil Nadu, 11th and 12th Five Year Plans for Tamil Nadu State Government and 11th Five-year Plan for the Country. As a policy advocacy, price policy for pulses, state stand on special products under WTO, report on revised modalities for agriculture for discussion during WTO meeting, the likely impact of CEPA- A comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between India and Canada were prepared by him and submitted to the government for policy decisions. He was one of expert invitees identified by PMO office on Trade and Export Promotion for doubling the Farmers’ income. He was instrumental in identification of Geographical Indications (GI) products for registration under GI. In association with FIEO, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, he organized several seminars/workshops/trainings on export opportunities of agro products for the benefit of farmers and exporters. Apart from contributing to policy directions, outcome of some of the research projects such as (i) adoption of select open pollinated varieties (OPVs) of TNAU and sources of seed procurement of eggplant varieties (ii) a study on the changing structure of supply of agricultural products and Tamil Nadu’s comparative advantage in agriculture, (iii) impact of DT rice varieties and (iv) research priority setting contributed to scientists to undertake breeding based on economically viable varieties of crops and prioritizing the resources allocation for R&D based comparative advantage crops. Outcome of Asian Development Bank funded project on Prioritizing Agricultural Research and Extension aided the government to increase allocation of funds for frontier research to various Agricultural Universities and TNAU is one of the beneficiaries. He served in several editorial boards of the reputed journals and member of several academic bodies (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Selvaraj-Kattery-Nanjundiah)