Bharti Malhotra, Ph.D.

Bharti Malhotra is Senior Analyst at Crop Science, Agribusiness at S&P Global Commodity Insights, and has over 12 years' experience in the crop science with expertise in genetically modified seed industry.

She holds a doctorate in agriculture biotechnology and has 12 years of biotechnology, molecular biology, and agriculture experience. She has worked on 100+ market intelligence projects in her previous roles. In addition, she has authored agricultural market reports on seeds, seed technologies, including gene-editing, agrochemicals, and commodities sectors and sub-sectors.

During her professional journey from R&D to management consulting and market research, she has developed transgenic potatoes using the RNAi technique (genetic engineering technique) and standardized gene editing methodology, and next-generation sequencing techniques for tomato crop. She has also worked on the commercialization of genetically modified crops in India and Bangladesh.