DR. Jauhar Ali

Jauhar Ali is a Principal Scientist and a Hybrid Rice Breeder at the International Rice Research Institute.

He finished his BS degree in Agriculture (with honors) from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India in 1988. He took up his Master (1990) and Doctoral (1993) degrees in the field of genetics from India’s premier Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi. He did his post-doctoral fellowship at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) on two occasions, one in 1994-1995 and the other between 2000-2003. He has been serving IRRI since 2009 as a Globally Recruited Scientist (GRS). He is currently the Leader of the Hybrid Rice Technologies for Seed Industry (HRTSI) and the Head of the Hybrid Rice Development Consortium (HRDC), with 60 NARES and 28 private seed company members. He has been a demonstrative and successful breeder who directly bred and released 73 rice inbred and 22 hybrid rice varieties and deployed them over 44 m ha (cumulative) across Asia and Africa. He has been a highly innovative and passionate research leader who took up early research initiatives in technologies that could impact farmer livelihoods, especially on green super rice breeding, two-line hybrid rice, nutrient-use efficient hybrids, direct-seeded rice hybrids, arsenic-safe rice, and climate-smart rice varieties. Jauhar contributed immensely to the capacity building having directly trained more than 3000 researchers and guided MS and Ph.D. students. He has published more than 120 publications in peer-reviewed journals.