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A.Gulati@cgiar.org

Dr. Ashok Gulati is currently IFPRI Director in Asia based in IFPRI's New Delhi Office. During January 2001 to February 2006, he was Director of the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division of IFPRI in Washington D.C. Before joining IFPRI, Ashok Gulati was a NABARD Chair Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth in Delhi ; Chief Economist at the National Council of Applied Economic Research, Delhi.

Dr. Gulati has also been a member of the Economic Advisory Council of the Prime Minister of India; a member of the State Planning Board of Karnataka; a member of the Economic Advisory Council of the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh; a member of the Board of Directors of ICICI Banking Corporation; and many other such positions. Dr. Gulati has done Masters in Economics and Ph.D. from Delhi School of Economics.

His special areas of research include analysis and policy advice on issues related to agricultural markets and development of value chains; agriculture trade liberalization and negotiations in WTO with a focus on the likely implications on developing country interests; etc.

Dr Gulati has published widely in national and international research journals, rendered policy advice to the Government of India, and interacted closely with the corporate sector involved in agri-business, the farmer groups, and the civil society organizations.

• South Asia Initiative
• Agricultural Diversification and Vertical Coordination in South Asia
• Grain Marketing Parastatals in Asia
• The Dragon and the Elephant: A Comparative Study of Economic and Agricultural Reforms in China and India
• WTO, Agricultural Negotiations and Developing Countries

• Asia with focus on South Asia

• Parastatals to Private Trade: Lessons from Asian Agriculture
  Forthcoming, 2008. Rashid, Shahidur; Gulati, Ashok; Cummings, Jr., Ralph, eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, USA.
• Maize in Asia
  Forthcoming, 2008. Ashok Gulati and John Dixon, eds. Academic Foundation, New Delhi.
• WTO Negotiations on Agriculture and Developing Countries
  2007/08. Hoda, Anwarul; Gulati, Ashok. Johns Hopkins University Press (2007), USA, also published by Oxford University Press (2008)
• The Dragon and the Elephant: Rural Development and Agricultural Reforms in China and India
  2007/08. Gulati, Ashok; Fan, Shenggen, eds. Johns Hopkins University Press (2007), USA, also published by Oxford University Press (2008)
• Agricultural Diversification and Smallholders in South Asia
  2007. Joshi, P.K.; Gulati, Ashok; Cummings, Ralph, eds. Academic Foundation, New Delhi.