Sagadevan Govindasamy Mundree is Professor and Director of the Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities (CTCB) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) from January 2016. Prior to that, Sagadevan was Deputy Director of the CTCB for 5 years. He leads a research Team that is focused on making crops more resilient to environmental stresses such as drought and salinity and more nutritious. Prior to joining QUT, he was a Senior Executive in the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (QPIF) where he led a Team that was responsible for QPIF’s Investments in Research, Development and Extension in all the primary industries of Queensland. Sagadevan is a former academic from the University of Cape Town and served as Chief Executive Officer of PlantBio, South Africa's National Innovation Centre for Agricultural Biotechnology . Sagadevan is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf).
