Dr Ram P Aneja, formerly Managing Director of India's National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), is now an international dairy consultant.

He has motivated a generation of dairy scientists in development of technologies for industrial manufacture of Indian milk products. He set up India's first pilot plant for modernized manufacture of ethnic dairy food at Sugam Dairy in Vadodara, Gujarat, in Western India, in the early eighties. Later, this unit was expanded into a commercial plant for industrial-scale production of these milk delicacies. Subsequently, he established a similar unit in Canada for dairy farmers of New Brunswick. Dr Aneja holds several patents on the manufacture of ethnic dairy products and intermediates such as chakka, shrikhand and khoa. He contributed a major section on "Indigenous Dairy Products of India and Neighbouring Countries" for the FAO Animal Health and Production Paper No 85 on "The Technology of Traditional Milk Products in Developing Countries", published in 1990. Dr Aneja is the first Indian to be elected to the Permanent Commission on "Dairy Technology & Engineering" of the International Dairy Federation, Brussels. He is past President of the Indian Dairy Association. He has been a key speaker at national and international seminars, symposia and workshops on ethnic dairy