Sucheta Khokhar is currently Dean, College of Agriculture, and served as Head, Department of Entomology (until June 2010) at CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, She obtained her Ph.D. from CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, in 1979 and was a FAO Post-doctoral Training Fellow at Ohio State University, USA in 1999 in the Diagnostic Clinics for Insects and Other Pathogens. A Fellow of the Applied Zoological Research Association (AZRA), CRRI, Cuttack, she is the recipient of Dr. Mrs. Jagadeswari Rao Women Scientist Award 1999 and 2000 bestowed by AZRA. She has established the new identity of 35 insects from Haryana and adjoining areas, and discovered 10 new species of insects. She has published more than 70 research papers in national and international journals of scientific repute and contributed 10 chapters in the books and 3 review papers. She is a co-editor of two books/compendia. She is life member of several scientific societies. She has guided more than 12 post-graduate students and taught taxonomy, morphology, classification and biosystematics courses of Entomology to under-graduate and post-graduate students at CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar and Indian Agricultural Research institute, New Delhi.