Chetan Keswani is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, India. He has keen interest in the intellectual property, regulatory and commercialisation issues of agriculturally important microorganisms. He is an elected Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London, UK. He received Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from the Uttar Pradesh Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India in 2015. He is an editorial board member of several reputed agricultural microbiology journals.