Sagadevan Mundree is Professor and Head of the School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability at The University of Queensland (UQ). He brings extensive experience spanning academia, government and innovation leadership, including serving as Director of the Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy at Queensland University of Technology and in a senior executive role with the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, where he led investment strategy across primary industries.
An internationally recognised scientist, he leads research developing crops with enhanced resilience to drought and salinity while improving nutritional value. Earlier in his career, he was an academic at the University of Cape Town and CEO of South Africa’s National Innovation Centre for Agricultural Biotechnology. Sagadevan holds a PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology from Auburn University (as a Fulbright Scholar), an MBA from the University of Cape Town, and is a Senior Executive Fellow of the Harvard Kennedy School.
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