Ravi Ravindran
Dr Ravi Ravindran holds the position of Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Massey University, New Zealand. He obtained his Masters of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Animal Nutrition from Virginia Tech University, USA.
He has previously held academic and research positions in Sri Lanka, Canada, USA and Australia, prior to moving to New Zealand in 1998. He has published in excess of 400 scientific works, including 31 book chapters. Dr Ravindran serves on the Editorial Boards of a number of international journals, including British Journal of Nutrition, Animal Feed Science and Technology, Animal Production Science, Poultry Science, Journal of Animal Science and Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Science. He is a member of the UN/FAO Expert Committee on new feed resources in animal nutrition. Dr Ravindran's areas of extensive research include feed evaluation, amino acid availability and feed enzymes, particularly microbial phytases.