Ajit Govind is a broadly trained Environmental Physicist who is interested to study various biophysical interactions on the Earth’s surface. Currently, he is working as a ICARDA Climatologist based in Egypt. He is also a senior scientist at the French National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA). He has developed two numerical models that can simulate terrestrial carbon, water, nitrogen and energy cycles in a coupled manner. At ICARDA, he is responsible for all climate research initiatives in the dryland contexts in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Central Asia, India, and China. He is serving as the CCAFS (Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security) focal point of ICARDA. He is currently leading the Iraq Climate Change project funded by UNEP where he is an advisor on climate adaptation and mitigation interventions to the Govt of Iraq. Similarly, he also worked in Jordan under the World Bank-funded Climate Smart Agriculture Initiative. He works with FAO in establishing an Evapotranspiration Monitoring Network in the MENA region under the Regional Water Scarcity Initiative funded by Sweden. He was born and raised in Kerala, India. His academic training consists of a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Sciences (TNAU, India, 1998), Master’s degree in Agricultural Physics (IARI, India, 2001), and Doctoral degree in Ecohydrological–Biogeochemical Modeling (University of Toronto, Canada, 2008).