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CEO of JATROPOWER Group, is of Indian nationality. After obtaining \u00a0his PhD from the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, he did 6 years of fundamental research on Jatropha. He also has extensive experience of managing intercultural projects. Dr. Francis played a key role in the DaimlerChrysler-DEG Jatropha project titled \u201cBiofuels from Eroded Soils in India\u201d, during his time at Hohenheim. This was the first comprehensive project to investigate the many aspects of Jatropha cultivation on wasteland, extraction of oil from its seeds, biodiesel production and the potential uses of the by-products remaining after oil extraction. He has acted as a consultant on Jatropha and other bio-energy projects to national governments, multinational financial institutions and private companies world-wide. He has several articles on the potential of Jatropha to his credit and has delivered keynote lectures on this and related topics at international fora.<\/p>\n

Recent publications by George Francis<\/a><\/p>\n

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Santosh took over as CEO of Jatropower India in March, 2022. Until February, 2022, he was working as Deputy Vice President in Axis Bank, the third largest private sector bank in India as head of Institutional Business for Chennai Region.\u00a0 He ended his illustrious career in the banking industry at its steeply ascending phase, in order to pursue his passion for development and adoption of environment-friendly technologies to aid in sustainable development.<\/p>\n

He is bringing in his proven credentials as a leader and achiever to Jatropower India and sees his focus on the motivation of personnel, sharper result-orientation in the ongoing research projects of the company and intensifying marketing efforts for the companies\u2019 products. Santosh aims to build on the good basis at Jatropower India on research and development of jatropha and xuta (new edible variety of jatropha) and lead it towards the goal of establishing new, viable and climate-smart crops for farmers that would lead to cost effective and inclusive production of environmentally sustainable edible oil, biofuel feedstock and protein concentrates for the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world.
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Presently our Senior Consultant. Dr Muralidharan is among the widely known oilseed breeders in India and internationally. He held several prestigious positions during his professional career including those of Professor and Head of the Department of Oilseeds at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Director of the Tamil Nadu Rice Research Institute and Director of National Research Centre for Groundnut, ICAR, Junagath, Gujarat. He has worked extensively over the span of the last 45 years on breeding of oilseeds such as groundnut, sunflower, sesame and other crops such as rice and legumes and has been instrumental in the development and release of several elite seed varieties in each of these crops. During the last years, he has been a senior consultant of the jatropha development effort of on or the biggest corporate houses in India. Dr Muralidharan led over 30 research projects and has about 100 scientific publications to his credit.<\/p>\n

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JATROPOWER possesses access to state-of-the-art technical expertise in Jatropha breeding and seed and oil biochemical analysis through cooperation agreements with leading research institutes.<\/p>\n

Current research cooperation partners include: <\/strong><\/p>\n

ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Kochi, Kerala, India<\/p>\n

TNAU, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India<\/p>\n

Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany<\/p>\n

Hohenheim University, Germany<\/p>\n

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