Soumya Swaminathan

  • The former WHO Chief Scientist and current Chairperson of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). Her father, M. S. Swaminathan (the architect of India's Green Revolution) was also elected to FRS in 1973.
  • She is also only the second Indian woman (after Gagandeep Kang) to receive the honor.
  • FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society) is an elite post-nominal title awarded to distinguished scientists, engineers, and technologists by the Royal Society of ....
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