Jiban Shrestha earned a Master Degree in Agriculture (M.Sc. Ag) from Institute of Agriculture and Animal Sciences, Rampur, Chitwan under Tribhuvan University, Nepal in 2007. He is working in the capacity of Scientist (Plant Breeding and Genetics) at National Maize Research Programme, Rampur, Chitwan under Nepal Agricultural Research Council, Nepal since 2010. Mr. Shrestha has been involved in basic and applied research on maize mainly related to development, maintenance and improvement of hybrid and open pollinated maize varieties as well as soil nutrient management for maize grown in various production systems. He has played vital role for development and release of Rampur Hybrid-2, three early varieties (Arun-3, Arun-4, Arun-6), two pipe line hybrids and one yellow quality protein maize (QPM) variety. He has published 50 peer reviewed articles in both national and international journals, 10 proceeding papers, 12 scientific abstracts, 18 scientific reports, 10 magazine articles, two leaflet, one newsletter article and two book. He has been affiliated to more than 100 journals [including "European Journal of Agronomy" (Elsevier)] and national publications as editor or reviewer. Before embarking on his career as Scientist, he had worked as Project Officer at Support Activities for Poor Producers of Nepal (SAPPROS) under Education for Income Generation (EIG) in Nepal Program funded by USAID/Winrock Int’l Institute for Agriculture Development, Nepal. He is member of Society of Agricultural Scientist Nepal (SAS-N) and Agronomy Society Nepal (ASON). He has also joined as member of Asian Council of Science Editors (ACSE), European Association of Science Editors (EASE) and reviewer committee member of many international conferences.He has guided agricultural graduate and postgraduate students for their thesis research.