Suri Sehgal
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Surinder Mohan (Suri) Sehgal is an Indian-American philanthropist with a long career as a crop scientist, seedsman, entrepreneur, and leading expert in the global hybrid seed industry. His research and professional successes in the areas of plant breeding and genetics, agbiotechnology, intellectual property, business management, and seed industry development were carried out in executive capacities in several companies in the United States, Belgium, and Germany. After the divestment of a group of four seed companies that Sehgal founded and ran with his wife, Edda Sehgal, the couple created two nonprofit organizations to promote rural development in Suri's country of origin: Sehgal (Family) Foundation in 1998 in the US, and S M Sehgal Foundation in India. The foundations’ work focuses on wa
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Suri Sehgal
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Suri Sehgal
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Suri Sehgal
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1934-05-16
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Punjab University, India
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Harvard University, USA
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Harvard International Senior Management Program, Switzerland
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1934-05-16
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Sehgal in 2008
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Bernd U. Sehgal
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Kenai K. Sehgal
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Oliver S. Sehgal
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Vicki D. Sehgal
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United States
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Plant genetics, agricultural science, business, philanthropy
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Henry A. Wallace
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Paul C. Mangelsdorf
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William Lacy Brown
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S M Sehgal Foundation, India
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Sehgal Foundation, USA
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Seed industry development, plant breeding, socioeconomic development in rural India, philanthropy
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American
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Captiva, Florida, USA
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Edda Gudrun Sehgal
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Surinder Mohan (Suri) Sehgal is an Indian-American philanthropist with a long career as a crop scientist, seedsman, entrepreneur, and leading expert in the global hybrid seed industry. His research and professional successes in the areas of plant breeding and genetics, agbiotechnology, intellectual property, business management, and seed industry development were carried out in executive capacities in several companies in the United States, Belgium, and Germany. After the divestment of a group of four seed companies that Sehgal founded and ran with his wife, Edda Sehgal, the couple created two nonprofit organizations to promote rural development in Suri's country of origin: Sehgal (Family) Foundation in 1998 in the US, and S M Sehgal Foundation in India. The foundations’ work focuses on water security, food security, and social justice with particular emphasis on women's empowerment. A proponent of corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability, Sehgal has also provided support individually and through the foundations for projects related to agriculture research, the preservation of biodiversity and the conservation of natural resources.
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