Prabhu L. Pingali is a professor at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, the Department of Global Development, and in the division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University.[1] He is a foreign member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the founding director of the Tata-Cornell Institute.[2][3] Before becoming a professor at Cornell, Pingali worked in agricultural development at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.[4]