Dr. S K. Malhotra, the Project Director in Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture, ICAR is a renowned agriculture scientist & administrator, has over 3 decades of experience in food and nutritional security. He has served as Agriculture Commissioner, Horticulture Commissioner, ADG (Horticulture) in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and ICAR.

He is the architect of many new mission programs such as National Pulses Sub Mission, National Mission for Edible Oils, National Millets Mission, Per Drop More Crop program of PMKSY, National Saffron Mission and National Bee & Honey Mission.

As a Chairman of Insecticide Board, Central Fertilizer Committee, Central Biostimulant Committee, his contributions are immense in formation of policy framework and guidelines for their registration and commercialization of novel products. Represented Government of India in more than 24 international events organized by international agencies. The most recent is FAO (COUNCIL), where he introduced proposal of International Year of Millets & was approved for 2023 by United Nation Organization.