Dr. Jharendu Pant is a Senior Scientist at WorldFish, supporting aquaculture research programs in Asia and the Pacific, particularly in Timor-Leste, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Cambodia, Lao PDR, and the Solomon Islands. 

Before joining WorldFish, Jharendu accumulated over two decades of experience in university teaching (Farming Systems courses) and graduate student supervision, research on small-scale integrated agriculture-aquaculture (IAA) farming systems and aquatic resources management, participatory planning and development, designing and delivering short-term international training courses, and managing, monitoring, and evaluating rural livelihoods systems research and development projects across South and Southeast Asia and the Pacific.