Professor Surinder Saggar is the principal researcher in Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Measurement & Mitigation at the New Zealand Bioeconomy Science Institute and an adjunct professor at the School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University.  He graduated with a BSc (Ag) with honours, followed by an MSc (Soils) from the Punjab Agricultural University, India. His PhD in soil science was at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.  As a soil biogeochemist with over 50+ years of research experience (in India and NZ) since 1972, he specialises in soil organic matter and nutrient dynamics, and soil ecosystem processes under a wide range of land uses and management. He is a fellow of the NZ Society of Soil Science and NZ Institute of Agricultural & Horticultural Science, and a winner of the NZ Science Individual Lifetime Achievement Award. He is among the world’s top 1% of scientists for career-long citation impact in agronomy and agriculture. Surinder has been an editor of Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment, a subject editor of Soil Biology & Biochemistry, an editor and co-editor of three Special Issues, and a peer reviewer for over a dozen research journals. He has worldwide collaborative research contacts and international guest academic positions, including the Teagasc, Ireland, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Universidad De La Frontera, Chile, and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. Google Scholar H-index 61 with  >13,000 citations.