Dr Pathak took over the charge of Secretary, DARE and DG, ICAR from Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra on 1st August 2022.
Senior scientist Dr Himanshu Pathak was appointed as the Director General (DG) of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Secretary of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE).
Dr Himanshu Pathak was serving as the Director, the ICAR-National Institute of Abiotic Stress Management, Baramati, India. Prior to this he was the Director, ICAR-NRRI, Cuttack, India. He worked as a Scientist, 1992-01 and Senior Scientist, 2001-06, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi; Co-Facilitator, Rice-Wheat Consortium for the Indo-Gangetic Plains (RWC), International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)-India, New Delhi 2006-09; Principal Scientist, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 2009-16; Professor, Discipline of Environmental Sciences, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 2013-16.
He did his Ph.D. in Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India (1992) and Post-doctorate Experiences at University of Essex, United Kingdom (1996-97) and Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Germany (2004-05).He has completed MSc in Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He also studied BSc in Agriculture from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
Dr Pathak is a scientist of global repute working in the area of Abiotic stress, Climate change and Soil science. He has received many national awards and recognitions for his work Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (2019), Dr NS Randhawa Memorial Award, NAAS (2021), Dr R V Tamhane Memorial Lecture Award of by the Indian Society of Soil Science (2021), Platinum Jubilee Award Lecture of ISCA (2018), Krushi Gourav Award, Orissa Krushak Samaj (2017), Silver Jubilee Commemoration Medal of INSA (2016), Society of Agricultural Professional Excellence Award (2016), etc.
