Dr Selvaraju Ramasamy is currently Senior Agricultural Officer, Office of Innovation at FAO of the UN. He leads FAO’s technical support for strengthening Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) and coordinates partnerships with National Agricultural Research Systems and Extension and Advisory Services and their regional networks. He manages the Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP), and represents FAO at the CGIAR System Council, Inter-agency task team of UN Technology Facilitation Mechanism (TFM) and the board of the Global Forum on Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS). Since 2007 with FAO, he held many advisory and coordination roles, including the Chair of the Partner Advisory Committee of the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) (2015-2019), FAO-UNFCC partnership on adaptation (2008-2019), FAO-WMO partnership (2009–2019).