Prof Kadambot H.M. Siddique is Hackett Professor of Agriculture and Chair and Director of The UWA Institute of Agriculture. After completing his Ph.D. at The University of Western Australia (UWA) in 1985, he joined the Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia (DAFWA), as a cereal crop physiologist and worked his way up to principal scientist and leader of DAFWA's Pulse Program.  He became the Director of the Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture (CLIMA) at UWA in 2001 and remained in this position until 2006 when he was appointed to establish and lead The UWA Institute of Agriculture. He has more than 35 years’ experience in agricultural research, teaching and management in Australia and overseas. He has developed a national and international reputation in agricultural science, especially in the fields of crop physiology, production agronomy, farming systems, genetic resources, breeding research in cereal, grain and pasture legumes and oilseed crops. Professor Siddique’s publications are considered as key papers in the above fields and are widely cited.