April 5, 2016

Anil Jain has served as Managing Director and CEO of Jain Irrigation Systems Limited since 1992. He joined the company’s management team in 1984 and worked in the New York office between 1987 and 1991, steering its international marketing. Since then he has operated from India. Mr Jain is a veteran professional with over 30 years of experience in core strategic areas such as finance and banking, domestic and international marketing, strategic planning, horizontal and vertical expansion, and change management. Due to these efforts, Jain Irrigation has evolved as the only Indian agricultural multinational corporation with a richly integrated product and services basket that benefits the entire value chain of stakeholders. He is an advocate for the cause of small and marginal farmers across the world, and works zealously towards the issues of food security, water security and energy security in the developing world. Mr Jain has a degree in commerce from Pune University (1984) and a degree in law from Mumbai University (1986).