Dr. A Amarender Reddy is working as the Joint Director, ICAR National Institute of Biotic Stress Management (ICAR-NIBSM), Raipur, India. He completed his Ph.D. (Agricultural Economics) at the ICAR Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-IARI), New Delhi. Then, he joined the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in the year 2001, with his first posting at ICAR-IIPR, Kanpur. From then onwards, he has mostly engaged in agricultural and rural policy research, consultancy, and trainings at various premier institutions. He also has hands-on experience in heading training centers, as he worked as the Director (Monitoring and Evaluation) and i/c Director of the Center for Knowledge Management, ICT, and Mass Media in Agricultural Extension at the National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad. Earlier, he worked as an Associate Professor (public policy) at the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Hyderabad; as a Scientist (Economics) at ICRISAT, Hyderabad; as a Senior Research Officer at the Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD), Lucknow, and as the Principal Scientist (Agricultural Economics) at ICAR-IARI, New Delhi. He also worked for a short period at the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi, and the National Council of Applied Economics and Policy Research (NCEAR), New Delhi. He has more than 3200 citations, with an H-index of 30 and an i10 index of 91.