Dr Abid Majeed Satti is a Senior Scientific Officer and Program Leader of the Rice Research Program at PARC–National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Islamabad, Pakistan. He is a rice scientist working on rice breeding, climate-resilient rice production, stress physiology, resource-use efficiency and closing yield gaps. As Principal Investigator of a PSDP-funded project, he screened 368 rice genotypes for resistance to bacterial leaf blight and tolerance to abiotic stress, and contributed to the development and approval of the rice variety “NARC Rice-1”. He builds farmers’ capacity through trainings, demonstration plots and evidence-based recommendations to improve rice productivity and livelihoods in Pakistan.