Biography:

A multi-disciplinary academic post-graduate and Doctoral Degree holder from World-class Madras University, across his career in Spices Board of India, he has handled myriad roles as Editor and Deputy Marketing Director and gained insightful experience in Marketing, Export Promotion, New Product Development, Quality and Safety of spices and spice products spanning over three decades. He gained hands on experience in policy formulation related to marketing, export promotion and export development including market access initiative projects in overseas markets, up-gradation of technology, and organised several National Seminars and Buyer-seller meets of Spices Board. Besides a Master trainer and Resource Person for various programmes on marketing and post-harvest improvement of spices, he presented several Papers in National and International Conference, Seminars and Workshops. He had also officiated as Chief Rapporteur in International Conferences including that organised by FAO and WHO.

Suresh has gained rich cross-cultural experience from his travel to Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Singapore, USA, Brazil, China, Tokyo, UAE and Bahrain. He has been teaching at prestigious universities like IGNOU, Government of India and Pondicherry University as a Guest Faculty over the last 25 years in multi-disciplinary subjects at Bachelor and Master Level and as a media personnel, he did programmes over Television and also covered national and international events for print media with credit for over 300 articles in leading English publications on a variety of topics. He is a recipient of Fellowship under UNDP Programme.