Gyanendra Pratap Singh presently Director, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, graduated from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in 1984 with Malaviya Gold Medal. Dr. Singh completed post-graduation in 1988 from BHU in the field of genetics and plant breeding. He awarded doctoral degree from CSAUA&T, Kanpur in 1992 in the field of genetics and plant breeding. He is an accomplished and dedicated agricultural researcher & manager having a rich experience on wheat-based system perspective spanning over three decades. Holding the current position of research manager for the national wheat & barley improvement programme, Dr. Singh had the opportunity to plan, redefine the programme objectives and activities based on the vision 2050, ground realties and feedback of stakeholders which led the country to reach an all-time highest wheat production consecutively for the past 5 years. Dr. Singh is instrumental in the development of 65wheat (11 biofortified varieties) and 03 barley varieties and 01 potato variety benefitting multitude farmers, consumers and industries. He is the main force behind the development and fast spreading of improved wheat technologies including DBW 187, and DBW 222, HD 2967, HD 3086, and DBW 173 as these are readily adopted by farmers as evident from top breeder seed indent and also large number of licensing (950 licenses) through institute’s business incubation model. Dr. Singh took painstaking efforts in successful mitigation of wheat blast threat in India through pre-emptive breeding and surveillance programme by initiating a strong coordination among ICAR, DARE, DAC&FW, SDA and WB government.

Dr. Singh largely focused in intrinsic research on heat and drought tolerance for wheat improvement in India and developed many climate resilient wheat varieties. He also the leader of the cutting edge technologies like Marker Assisted Recurrent Selection and Precision Phenotyping for heat and drought tolerance. He executed more than 10 externally funded projects apart from institute funded projects, majorly focusing on drought and heat tolerance of wheat. Published more than 300 research articles of national and international repute with high impact factors, 23 books, 65 book chapters, 57 technical bulletins, 55 popular articles, 05 Policy/Strategy papers. His strenuous efforts on advancing the R&D led to several accolades at national and international level by honoring with 17 awards. He also a fellow of three  academy and 03 registered scientific societies i.e. NASI, INSA, NAAS, ISGPB, SAWBAR, and SSDAT.