Biography:
A multi-disciplinary academic Post-graduate and Doctoral Degree holder, 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. He was a Master trainer and Resource Person. He had presented several Papers in National and International Seminars and Workshops, besides being officiated as Chief Rapporteur in International Conferences. A well-travelled person, Suresh has gained rich cross cultural experience from Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Singapore, USA, Brazil, China, Tokyo, UAE, Switzerland and Bahrain.He has been teaching at prestigious Universities like IGNOU, Government of India and Pondicherry University as a Senior Guest Faculty over the last 30 years in multi-disciplinary subjects at Bachelor and Master Level. As media personnel, he did programmes over Television as Anchor, director, and producer and also covered national and international events for print media having credit for over 300 articles in leading English publications. He is a recipient of Fellowship under UNDP Programme. A multilingual, he is proficient in English, Malayalam, Tamil and modestly in French.
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