Airborne pollution
Chemical Ecology
Community based natural resource management
Contracts and Marketing
Decision support
Disaster management and vulnerability analysis
Education and training
Enterprise development
Environmental assessment
Extension, knowledge generation and dissemination
Farming systems analysis
Food Security
Gender issues; participatory approaches
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing
Human health
Information management
Information technology
Infrastructure development
Institutional analysis and capacity building
Laboratory management and services
Legislation, ethical trade, fair trade and certification
Livelihood diversification
Markets and trade
Media and development
Office management
Participatory methods for social and natural resource analysis, research and planning
Performance and impact assessment
Project control and administration
Quality management systems

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Airborne pollution

Dr Peter Burt

Email: P.J.A.Burt@gre.ac.uk
Biometeorologist. Experience in: windborne dispersal of organisms and particulate material through the atmosphere; influence of topography on airflow; micrometeorological monitoring, and aspects of remote sensing applied to pest management and forecasting. Lecturing in aspects of biology, meteorology and airborne dispersal at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Leader of NRI's MSc/PGDip programmes in Natural Resources. Research student supervision. Editor of Meteorological Applications and President of the British Aerobiology Federation.

Chemical ecology

Prof. Alan Cork

Email: A.Cork@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Bio-Rational Pest Management, and Head of Agriculture, Health and Environment Group. Has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers resulting from 30 years’ experience of research to develop and implement IPM-compatible solutions to crop-pest and disease-vector problems that affect the livelihoods of resource-poor farmers in South Asia, South America and Africa. Recent work on the development of innovation platforms with SMEs, NGOs and Government researchers to commercialize research outputs for the benefit of rice and vegetable farmers in South Asia.

 

Prof. David Hall

Email: D.R.Hall@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Chemical Ecology. Natural products chemist with over 25 years experience in isolation, identification, synthesis, formulation and field application of insect semiochemicals and other natural products for monitoring and control of insect pests. Extensive short-term overseas experience in Asia, Africa and South America. Currently working on pests of coffee, cocoa, potatoes and wheat in developing countries, and horticultural pests in UK and the rest of Europe. Author of over 125 peer-reviewed publications.

 

Dr Derek Russell

Email: D.A.Russell@gre.ac.uk
Crop protection specialist, currently based at CESAR. 16 years research and teaching experience with NRI on cotton IPM, insecticide resistance management, pheromone use, crop and pest modelling, working in East Africa, Egypt, India, China and Pakistan; previous experience as zoology lecturer in New Zealand. Currently leading projects on: sustainable control of cotton pests in India, China and Pakistan (CFC-funded); and farmer-appropriateness of Bt cotton in China (EU-funded). Fluent French.

Community based natural resource management

Czech (Martin) Conroy

Email: M.A.Conroy@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Rural Livelihoods. Twenty-two years experience in sustainable rural development, including fifteen with NRI. Main specialisms: communication for development; community-based natural resource management (particularly forests); livestock research and development; project M&E; participatory research and development processes (including capacity building); pro-poor agricultural research, innovation and development; sustainable livelihoods. Has recently undertaken consultancies on rural livelihoods in Bangladesh and India. Has also worked in western, eastern and southern Africa, Bolivia, Brazil, Indonesia and Oman. Working knowledge of Spanish and French.

 

Adrienne Martin

Email: A.M.Martin@gre.ac.uk
Social and institutional development specialist; LIG Group Leader. 28 years research and consultancy relating to poverty, livelihoods and natural resources. Skills in: project management; leading multidisciplinary teams; planning and evaluation; community-participation methodologies; gender and technology development; indigenous knowledge; agricultural policy and institutions; social impacts of industry codes of practice. Long-term experience in Sudan and Syria; short-term missions in 15 other countries in Africa and Asia. Good Arabic and French.

 

Prof. John Morton

Email: J.F.Morton@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Development Anthropology, and Associate Research Director (Social Sciences). Over 25 years experience in applied social research and consultancy for rural development. Specialist in social, institutional and policy aspects of livestock and pastoralist development, including drought management. Lead Author on smallholder and subsistence agriculture for the 2007 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Field experience in numerous African countries (especially in the Horn of Africa), South Asia and Mongolia. Fluent in French, with some Arabic.

 

Valerie Nelson

Email: V.J.Nelson@gre.ac.uk
Social Anthropologist

 

Barry Pound

Email: B.Pound@gre.ac.uk
Livelihoods and Farming Systems specialist. Starting as an agronomist in 1975, has steadily widened his experience through farming systems approaches to sustainable livelihood development. Interests include bridging the interfaces between social and natural sciences, and between research and extension. Currently working on: land reform projects in South Africa; privatized extension delivery in Uganda; knowledge transfer in the UK; and a joint NRI/CGIAR book on participatory natural resource management.

Contracts and marketing

John Linton

Email: j.linton@gre.ac.uk
Commercial Director of NRI since December 2001. Formerly held a senior position with a leading British development consultany company. Has also worked with a major American management consulting company, managing change for blue-chip UK-based clients. International experience includes long-term assignments in Sudan and Papua New Guinea, and numerous short-term missions in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. His technical expertise lies in fisheries and enterprise development.

 

Katy Oliver

Email: K.Oliver@gre.ac.uk
Administrator: 18 years experience in administrative, secretarial and financial support to NRI. Currently PA to the Director, administrator for the Director's Office and providing database support to the Contracts Team. Contact point for all NRI publication enquiries. Previous experience in office management, project administration and personnel support. Background in library and information management systems.

 

Samantha Raven

Email: S.Raven@gre.ac.uk
Contracts co-ordinator. Responsible for negotiating and administering NRI’s contracts, with expertise in: providing guidance on all contractual issues (including contract law and intellectual property rights); liaising with NRI’s key clients; and advising NRI colleagues on the issuing of sub-contracts. Previous administrative experience within NRI includes: file records management and registration; corporate publications and publicity; and personnel support.

 

Decision support

Tim Bostock

Email: T.W.Bostock@gre.ac.uk
Fisheries and aquatic resource specialist. Over 30 years experience with inland and coastal fisheries, including: management of large development projects; project appraisal, monitoring and evaluation; institutional strengthening through management policy participation; community development and artisanal fisheries. Established the Support unit for International Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (SIFAR), and operated it for 6 years at FAO, Rome. Currently Senior Fisheries Adviser at DFID. Long-term experience in Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, and Africa. Excellent Spanish, fair French and Italian.

 

Terry Cannon

Email: T.G.Cannon@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Development Studies. Specialist on rural development and sustainable livelihoods, with particular interest in non-farm employment, food security and disaster vulnerability analysis. Over 25 years experience of teaching and training in development studies, and project experience in rural development in India and Uganda. Additional expertise on the impacts of economic reforms in China, especially on poverty, regional inequality and rural development.

 

Dr John Holt

Email: J.G.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Expertise in mathematical modelling, statistical analysis, disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, and systems approaches. 21 years research experience in these areas. Current interests in: invasive species risk assessment; insect-vectored plant virus diseases; insect pest outbreak prediction; farmer-participatory pest forecasting; and epidemiology of zoonotic diseases vectored by rodents. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean.

 

Prof. John Morton

Email: J.F.Morton@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Development Anthropology, and Associate Research Director (Social Sciences). Over 25 years experience in applied social research and consultancy for rural development. Specialist in social, institutional and policy aspects of livestock and pastoralist development, including drought management. Lead Author on smallholder and subsistence agriculture for the 2007 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Field experience in numerous African countries (especially in the Horn of Africa), South Asia and Mongolia. Fluent in French, with some Arabic.

Disaster management and vulnerability analysis

Terry Cannon

Email: T.G.Cannon@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Development Studies. Specialist on rural development and sustainable livelihoods, with particular interest in non-farm employment, food security and disaster vulnerability analysis. Over 25 years experience of teaching and training in development studies, and project experience in rural development in India and Uganda. Additional expertise on the impacts of economic reforms in China, especially on poverty, regional inequality and rural development.

 

Prof. John Morton

Email: J.F.Morton@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Development Anthropology, and Associate Research Director (Social Sciences). Over 25 years experience in applied social research and consultancy for rural development. Specialist in social, institutional and policy aspects of livestock and pastoralist development, including drought management. Lead Author on smallholder and subsistence agriculture for the 2007 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Field experience in numerous African countries (especially in the Horn of Africa), South Asia and Mongolia. Fluent in French, with some Arabic.

Education and training

Dr Peter Burt

Email: P.J.A.Burt@gre.ac.uk
Biometeorologist. Experience in: windborne dispersal of organisms and particulate material through the atmosphere; influence of topography on airflow; micrometeorological monitoring, and aspects of remote sensing applied to pest management and forecasting. Lecturing in aspects of biology, meteorology and airborne dispersal at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Leader of NRI's MSc/PGDip programmes in Natural Resources. Research student supervision. Editor of Meteorological Applications and President of the British Aerobiology Federation.

 

Terry Cannon

Email: T.G.Cannon@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Development Studies. Specialist on rural development and sustainable livelihoods, with particular interest in non-farm employment, food security and disaster vulnerability analysis. Over 25 years experience of teaching and training in development studies, and project experience in rural development in India and Uganda. Additional expertise on the impacts of economic reforms in China, especially on poverty, regional inequality and rural development.

 

Prof. Bob Cheke

Email: R.A.Cheke@gre.ac.uk
Pest and vector control entomologist, and ornithologist. Research experience on locust plagues and on control of Simulium blackflies that transmit river blindness (onchocerciasis). Environmental impact assessment of tsetse fly control operations and control of bird pests. Professor of Tropical Zoology of University of Greenwich, and Deputy Programme Leader of MSc in Natural Resources. Postgraduate qualification in higher education. Widespread country experience in East and West and southern Africa. Fluent French.

 

Claire Coote

Email: H.C.Coote@gre.ac.uk
Agricultural economist with 30 years experience. Recent work has focused on research and technical assistance in agricultural marketing in Africa: understanding marketing constraints faced by smallholder farmers; conceptualizing ways to facilitate widespread marketing of a nutrient-rich sweet potato in Uganda and Mozambique; addressing market access, food quality and safety issues through development of a horticultural code of practice for Mauritius; and understanding constraints to exports of high-value produce from Mozambique. Long-term experience in Malawi, Mauritius and Papua New Guinea.

 

Dr Nandini Dasgupta

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Ulrich Kleih

Email: U.K.Kleih@gre.ac.uk
Economist. Twenty years experience in project management, agricultural marketing analyses, trade policy, rural non-farm livelihoods, rural transport, market information services, participatory approaches, combinations of qualitative and quantitative survey methods, training, collection and analysis of farm-level data, and food security with a commodity focus on fish, roots and tubers, horticulture, cereals and livestock. Country experience in Africa (9 countries), Asia (4 countries) and Latin America, and long-term experience in Chad. Fluent in German, English and French, with good Spanish.

 

Linda Nicolaides

Email: L.Nicolaides@gre.ac.uk
Food safety specialist. 35 years working in quality management and food safety, specializing in food bacteriology and mycology, for horticultural produce, fish products, meat products, cereals and pulses. Knowledge of EU food law. Experience in development of new food products, implementation of BS EN ISO9000 series, TQM systems and HACCP, design and operation of food microbiology laboratories (ISO 17025). Overseas experience in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Fluent Spanish and Greek.

Enterprise development

Jonathan Coulter

Email: J.P.Coulter@gre.ac.uk
Agricultural marketing economist. Over 27 years experience in marketing and food security policy, product development, technology transfer, and project appraisal, planning and management, with substantial team leadership experience. Authority on implementation of agricultural market reform and development of warehouse-receipt and inventory-credit systems. Country experience includes: Africa (18 countries); South Asia (3 countries); Southeast Asia (3 countries); South and Central America (8 countries); and Japan. Long-term experience in Honduras and Ecuador. Fluent in Spanish and French; Portuguese good.

 

John Linton

Email: j.linton@gre.ac.uk
Commercial Director of NRI since December 2001. Formerly held a senior position with a leading British development consultany company. Has also worked with a major American management consulting company, managing change for blue-chip UK-based clients. International experience includes long-term assignments in Sudan and Papua New Guinea, and numerous short-term missions in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. His technical expertise lies in fisheries and enterprise development.

 

Dr Ana Marr

Email: a.marr@gre.ac.uk
Economist, with over 15 years of policy-making research, consultancy and lecturing experience in economic and financial-market development, pro-poor credit, microfinance, poverty reduction, business development services, social capital, financial services for enterprise development, warehouse-receipt systems, private capital flows, foreign direct investment, international trade and IFI conditionality. Extensive overseas experience includes 8 years with Central Bank of Peru, 2 years in Thailand, plus Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Colombia, Armenia, Romania, Tanzania, SouthAfrica and Zimbabwe. Excellent English, Spanish mother tongue, some Portuguese and Thai.

 

Dr Gideon Onumah

Email: G.Onumah@gre.ac.uk
Agricultural economics and development finance. Had over 10 years experience in central banking and rural informal micro-finance, before joining NRI. Experience in commodity trade and finance, including commodity market liberalization in Africa, and institutional frameworks for inventory credit. Managed a project on Warehousing and Inventory Credit in Zambia. Has worked in developing countries on: capacity building for rural finance; urban food supply and distribution policy; and household food security.

Environmental assessment

Dr Peter Burt

Email: P.J.A.Burt@gre.ac.uk
Biometeorologist. Experience in: windborne dispersal of organisms and particulate material through the atmosphere; influence of topography on airflow; micrometeorological monitoring, and aspects of remote sensing applied to pest management and forecasting. Lecturing in aspects of biology, meteorology and airborne dispersal at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Leader of NRI's MSc/PGDip programmes in Natural Resources. Research student supervision. Editor of Meteorological Applications and President of the British Aerobiology Federation.

 

Prof. Bob Cheke

Email: R.A.Cheke@gre.ac.uk
Pest and vector control entomologist, and ornithologist. Research experience on locust plagues and on control of Simulium blackflies that transmit river blindness (onchocerciasis). Environmental impact assessment of tsetse fly control operations and control of bird pests. Professor of Tropical Zoology of University of Greenwich, and Deputy Programme Leader of MSc in Natural Resources. Postgraduate qualification in higher education. Widespread country experience in East and West and southern Africa. Fluent French.

Extension, knowledge generation and dissemination

Richard Lamboll

Email: R.I.Lamboll@gre.ac.uk
Socio-economist. 20 years experience in research, consultancy, facilitation and training relating to agriculture and natural resource management. Expertise includes: livelihoods analysis; stakeholder and institutional analyses; enhancing stakeholder communication, learning and engagement; on-farm research; formal survey and participatory approaches. Long-term experience in Tanzania, Caribbean, Pacific; short-term in Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Uganda and Nepal. Fair Swahili; fluent Bislama. Current focus: capacity strengthening of agricultural innovation systems; climate change responses; agro/wild biodiversity management; governance and service delivery in agriculture.

 

Adrienne Martin

Email: A.M.Martin@gre.ac.uk
Social and institutional development specialist; LIG Group Leader. 28 years research and consultancy relating to poverty, livelihoods and natural resources. Skills in: project management; leading multidisciplinary teams; planning and evaluation; community-participation methodologies; gender and technology development; indigenous knowledge; agricultural policy and institutions; social impacts of industry codes of practice. Long-term experience in Sudan and Syria; short-term missions in 15 other countries in Africa and Asia. Good Arabic and French.

 

Dr Alastair Orr

Email: A.W.Orr@gre.ac.uk
Agricultural economist with 16 years field experience in support of resource-poor farmers in Asia and Africa. Has carried out: rice research and policy work in the Philippines and Bangladesh; and an analytical assessment of smallholder agriculture in Malawi. Current work includes poverty-focused projects in India, Bangladesh, Uganda, and Malawi. Has published widely on IPM, household food security, and development strategies for smallholder farmers.

 

Barry Pound

Email: B.Pound@gre.ac.uk
Livelihoods and Farming Systems specialist. Starting as an agronomist in 1975, has steadily widened his experience through farming systems approaches to sustainable livelihood development. Interests include bridging the interfaces between social and natural sciences, and between research and extension. Currently working on: land reform projects in South Africa; privatized extension delivery in Uganda; knowledge transfer in the UK; and a joint NRI/CGIAR book on participatory natural resource management.

 

Dr Alistair Sutherland

Email: A.J.Sutherland@gre.ac.uk
Applied anthropologist. Over 20 years in rural development: institutionalizing participatory research and gender mainstreaming in agricultural research and extension; R&D policy and institutional analysis; training in social development concepts and tools. Current focus: evaluation research; capacity building in performance management; research promotional strategies for less-developed rural areas. Experience in UK and in eight countries in Southern and Eastern Africa. Bantu language knowledge includes Swahili, Tswana, Nyanja and Shona.

Farming systems analysis

Dr John Holt

Email: J.G.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Expertise in mathematical modelling, statistical analysis, disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, and systems approaches. 21 years research experience in these areas. Current interests in: invasive species risk assessment; insect-vectored plant virus diseases; insect pest outbreak prediction; farmer-participatory pest forecasting; and epidemiology of zoonotic diseases vectored by rodents. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean.

 

Dr Alastair Orr

Email: A.W.Orr@gre.ac.uk
Agricultural economist with 16 years field experience in support of resource-poor farmers in Asia and Africa. Has carried out: rice research and policy work in the Philippines and Bangladesh; and an analytical assessment of smallholder agriculture in Malawi. Current work includes poverty-focused projects in India, Bangladesh, Uganda, and Malawi. Has published widely on IPM, household food security, and development strategies for smallholder farmers.

 

Barry Pound

Email: B.Pound@gre.ac.uk
Livelihoods and Farming Systems specialist. Starting as an agronomist in 1975, has steadily widened his experience through farming systems approaches to sustainable livelihood development. Interests include bridging the interfaces between social and natural sciences, and between research and extension. Currently working on: land reform projects in South Africa; privatized extension delivery in Uganda; knowledge transfer in the UK; and a joint NRI/CGIAR book on participatory natural resource management.

 

Dr Alistair Sutherland

Email: A.J.Sutherland@gre.ac.uk
Applied anthropologist. Over 20 years in rural development: institutionalizing participatory research and gender mainstreaming in agricultural research and extension; R&D policy and institutional analysis; training in social development concepts and tools. Current focus: evaluation research; capacity building in performance management; research promotional strategies for less-developed rural areas. Experience in UK and in eight countries in Southern and Eastern Africa. Bantu language knowledge includes Swahili, Tswana, Nyanja and Shona.

Food Security

Terry Cannon

Email: T.G.Cannon@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Development Studies. Specialist on rural development and sustainable livelihoods, with particular interest in non-farm employment, food security and disaster vulnerability analysis. Over 25 years experience of teaching and training in development studies, and project experience in rural development in India and Uganda. Additional expertise on the impacts of economic reforms in China, especially on poverty, regional inequality and rural development.

 

Prof. Chris Haines

Email: C.P.Haines@gre.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Post-Harvest Technology. Thirty-one years research, teaching and consultancy on ecology and management of pests of food commodities in the tropics, especially: ecology and taxonomy of insects and mites; biological control and integrated pest management; monitoring and identification of storage pests and natural enemies. Five years research and training in Indonesia; field experience elsewhere in South-East Asia, and in Africa and South America.

 

Dr Rick Hodges

Email: R.J.Hodges@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Post-Harvest Entomology. Pest and commodity management of durable commodities in warehouses and shipping. Thirty years research, teaching and consultancy on pest and quality control on-farm, in warehouses and during transport, including: rational use of insecticides and fumigants; storage pest behaviour and ecology, especially of larger grain borer. Active in co-ordination of European donor interests in agricultural research for development. Long-term experience in Ghana, Mali and Indonesia; field experience in many other countries. Working knowledge of French and Indonesian.

 

Dr John Orchard

Email: J.E.Orchard@gre.ac.uk
Plant Physiologist/Biochemist. Twenty years experience in biochemistry and physiology of beverage, horticultural and cereal crops with emphasis on their post-harvest management; biochemistry and processing techniques of black tea manufacture; the growth and physiology of cacao and tea. Long-term overseas experience in Brazil, Ecuador, and Kenya, and short-term experience in Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Honduras, Nigeria, Malawi, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Pakistan. Fluent Spanish and fair Portuguese.

 

Dr Guy Poulter

Email: R.G.Poulter@gre.ac.uk
Director of NRI. Natural scientist with 28 years experience of research and development on renewable natural resources. Key skills include provision of advisory, management and leadership services at a senior level to development agencies in support of improved natural resources management and poverty reduction. Recent experience of leading multi-disciplinary research programmes in Europe and developing countries; advising on management of renewable natural resources in tropical developing countries; and all aspects of the project cycle.

 

Prof. Andrew Westby

Email: A.Westby@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Food Technology and NRI's Director of Research and Enterprise. Post-harvest technologist with 20 years post-doctoral experience working mainly, though not exclusively, with root and tuber crops on a wide range of issues concerned with handling, processing, marketing, food quality and food safety. Commodity experience includes cassava, sweet potato, yam, horticultural crops, maize, sorghum and legumes. Field experience in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.

Gender issues: participatory approaches

Adrienne Martin

Email: A.M.Martin@gre.ac.uk
Social and institutional development specialist; LIG Group Leader. 28 years research and consultancy relating to poverty, livelihoods and natural resources. Skills in: project management; leading multidisciplinary teams; planning and evaluation; community-participation methodologies; gender and technology development; indigenous knowledge; agricultural policy and institutions; social impacts of industry codes of practice. Long-term experience in Sudan and Syria; short-term missions in 15 other countries in Africa and Asia. Good Arabic and French.

 

Dr Alistair Sutherland

Email: A.J.Sutherland@gre.ac.uk
Applied anthropologist. Over 20 years in rural development: institutionalizing participatory research and gender mainstreaming in agricultural research and extension; R&D policy and institutional analysis; training in social development concepts and tools. Current focus: evaluation research; capacity building in performance management; research promotional strategies for less-developed rural areas. Experience in UK and in eight countries in Southern and Eastern Africa. Bantu language knowledge includes Swahili, Tswana, Nyanja and Shona.

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing

Dr Peter Burt

Email: P.J.A.Burt@gre.ac.uk
Biometeorologist. Experience in: windborne dispersal of organisms and particulate material through the atmosphere; influence of topography on airflow; micrometeorological monitoring, and aspects of remote sensing applied to pest management and forecasting. Lecturing in aspects of biology, meteorology and airborne dispersal at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Leader of NRI's MSc/PGDip programmes in Natural Resources. Research student supervision. Editor of Meteorological Applications and President of the British Aerobiology Federation.

 

Dr Robert Ridgway

Email: R.B.Ridgway@gre.ac.uk
Land reform specialist. Experienced in land tenure and land resources management for strengthening rural livelihoods. Adviser on programme preparation and appraisal, with project management experience in participatory planning and capacity-building of national land administrations. Currently Land Reform Adviser on long-term EC Rural Poverty Reduction Programme based in Ministry of Lands and Resettlement, Namibia. Developing-country experience over 40 years in Africa, South and South-East Asia, Middle East, Caribbean, Eastern Europe and CIS countries.

Human health

Prof. Bob Cheke

Email: R.A.Cheke@gre.ac.uk
Pest and vector control entomologist, and ornithologist. Research experience on locust plagues and on control of Simulium blackflies that transmit river blindness (onchocerciasis). Environmental impact assessment of tsetse fly control operations and control of bird pests. Professor of Tropical Zoology of University of Greenwich, and Deputy Programme Leader of MSc in Natural Resources. Postgraduate qualification in higher education. Widespread country experience in East and West and southern Africa. Fluent French.

 

Prof. Alan Cork

Email: A.Cork@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Bio-Rational Pest Management, and Head of Agriculture, Health and Environment Group. Has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers resulting from 30 years’ experience of research to develop and implement IPM-compatible solutions to crop-pest and disease-vector problems that affect the livelihoods of resource-poor farmers in South Asia, South America and Africa. Recent work on the development of innovation platforms with SMEs, NGOs and Government researchers to commercialize research outputs for the benefit of rice and vegetable farmers in South Asia.

 

Dr Gay Gibson

Email: G.Gibson@gre.ac.uk
Behaviour of medical and agricultural pests, especially pathogen vectors, such as mosquitoes, tsetse and whitefly. Over 20 years laboratory and field research experience on the sensory systems and behaviours that make insects good vectors. Fieldwork sites include Zimbabwe and Zanzibar. Extensive teaching experience in medical and veterinary vector control. Current interests: mating and host seeking in the Anopheles gambiae species complex; and integration of vector control for human diseases with other aspects of livelihood improvement.

 

Dr John Holt

Email: J.G.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Expertise in mathematical modelling, statistical analysis, disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, and systems approaches. 21 years research experience in these areas. Current interests in: invasive species risk assessment; insect-vectored plant virus diseases; insect pest outbreak prediction; farmer-participatory pest forecasting; and epidemiology of zoonotic diseases vectored by rodents. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean.

Information management

Dr John Holt

Email: J.G.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Expertise in mathematical modelling, statistical analysis, disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, and systems approaches. 21 years research experience in these areas. Current interests in: invasive species risk assessment; insect-vectored plant virus diseases; insect pest outbreak prediction; farmer-participatory pest forecasting; and epidemiology of zoonotic diseases vectored by rodents. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean.

 

Dr Peter Burt

Email: P.J.A.Burt@gre.ac.uk
Biometeorologist. Experience in: windborne dispersal of organisms and particulate material through the atmosphere; influence of topography on airflow; micrometeorological monitoring, and aspects of remote sensing applied to pest management and forecasting. Lecturing in aspects of biology, meteorology and airborne dispersal at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Leader of NRI's MSc/PGDip programmes in Natural Resources. Research student supervision. Editor of Meteorological Applications and President of the British Aerobiology Federation.

Information technology

Karen Birkbeck

Email: K.E.Birkbeck@gre.ac.uk
Information technology (IT) specialist. Over 17 years experience, most recently in the development of business management systems accessible through NRI's intranet. Also responsible for: UNIX systems management and security; development of systems operations procedures; installation and testing of new software; staff training and support; and web development. Field experience in Ethiopia. Basic German and working knowledge of French.

 

Ron Holdsworth

Email: R.E.Holdsworth@gre.ac.uk
Computer programmer. 36 years computing experience. Expertise includes: databases (Microsoft Access, MySQL, dBase); programming (Perl, C, Pascal, dBase, SQL, Visual Basic for Access); and graphics. Recent activities include database-driven web applications, mainly using Perl and MySQL on Unix platforms, including re-design and transfer of MS Access applications. In addition to database programming, responsibilities include general user-support to NRI staff for both hardware and software, and some Unix systems administration.

Infrastructure development

Ulrich Kleih

Email: U.K.Kleih@gre.ac.uk
Economist. Twenty years experience in project management, agricultural marketing analyses, trade policy, rural non-farm livelihoods, rural transport, market information services, participatory approaches, combinations of qualitative and quantitative survey methods, training, collection and analysis of farm-level data, and food security with a commodity focus on fish, roots and tubers, horticulture, cereals and livestock. Country experience in Africa (9 countries), Asia (4 countries) and Latin America, and long-term experience in Chad. Fluent in German, English and French, with good Spanish.

Institutional analysis and capacity building

Adrienne Martin

Email: A.M.Martin@gre.ac.uk
Social and institutional development specialist; LIG Group Leader. 28 years research and consultancy relating to poverty, livelihoods and natural resources. Skills in: project management; leading multidisciplinary teams; planning and evaluation; community-participation methodologies; gender and technology development; indigenous knowledge; agricultural policy and institutions; social impacts of industry codes of practice. Long-term experience in Sudan and Syria; short-term missions in 15 other countries in Africa and Asia. Good Arabic and French.

 

Prof. John Morton

Email: J.F.Morton@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Development Anthropology, and Associate Research Director (Social Sciences). Over 25 years experience in applied social research and consultancy for rural development. Specialist in social, institutional and policy aspects of livestock and pastoralist development, including drought management. Lead Author on smallholder and subsistence agriculture for the 2007 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Field experience in numerous African countries (especially in the Horn of Africa), South Asia and Mongolia. Fluent in French, with some Arabic.

 

Barry Pound

Email: B.Pound@gre.ac.uk
Livelihoods and Farming Systems specialist. Starting as an agronomist in 1975, has steadily widened his experience through farming systems approaches to sustainable livelihood development. Interests include bridging the interfaces between social and natural sciences, and between research and extension. Currently working on: land reform projects in South Africa; privatized extension delivery in Uganda; knowledge transfer in the UK; and a joint NRI/CGIAR book on participatory natural resource management.

 

Dr Alistair Sutherland

Email: A.J.Sutherland@gre.ac.uk
Applied anthropologist. Over 20 years in rural development: institutionalizing participatory research and gender mainstreaming in agricultural research and extension; R&D policy and institutional analysis; training in social development concepts and tools. Current focus: evaluation research; capacity building in performance management; research promotional strategies for less-developed rural areas. Experience in UK and in eight countries in Southern and Eastern Africa. Bantu language knowledge includes Swahili, Tswana, Nyanja and Shona.

Laboratory management and services

Joyce Collins

Email: J.E.Collins@gre.ac.uk
Laboratory Manager

 

Evie Keane

Email: E.H.Keane@gre.ac.uk
Laboratory Manager & Administrative Support

 

Natalie Morley

Email: N.Morley@gre.ac.uk
Laboratory Technician

Legislation, ethical trade, fair trade and certification

Ruth Butterworth

Email: R.R.Butterworth@gre.ac.uk
Economist, specializing in socio-economics and rural livelihoods, rural development and agricultural markets. Extensive knowledge of rural development research approaches, techniques and analysis. Has knowledge of establishing warehouse receipt systems and market information systems, enabling smallholder market access, and regenerating local economies in post-conflict areas. Experienced in project planning, implementation and management. In-country experience includes Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, India, and Zimbabwe. Speaks fluent English and Shona (mother tongue), basic French and Portuguese.

 

Dr Ana Marr

Email: a.marr@gre.ac.uk
Economist, with over 15 years of policy-making research, consultancy and lecturing experience in economic and financial-market development, pro-poor credit, microfinance, poverty reduction, business development services, social capital, financial services for enterprise development, warehouse-receipt systems, private capital flows, foreign direct investment, international trade and IFI conditionality. Extensive overseas experience includes 8 years with Central Bank of Peru, 2 years in Thailand, plus Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Colombia, Armenia, Romania, Tanzania, SouthAfrica and Zimbabwe. Excellent English, Spanish mother tongue, some Portuguese and Thai.

 

Adrienne Martin

Email: A.M.Martin@gre.ac.uk
Social and institutional development specialist; LIG Group Leader. 28 years research and consultancy relating to poverty, livelihoods and natural resources. Skills in: project management; leading multidisciplinary teams; planning and evaluation; community-participation methodologies; gender and technology development; indigenous knowledge; agricultural policy and institutions; social impacts of industry codes of practice. Long-term experience in Sudan and Syria; short-term missions in 15 other countries in Africa and Asia. Good Arabic and French.

 

Valerie Nelson

Email: V.J.Nelson@gre.ac.uk
Social Anthropologist

 

Linda Nicolaides

Email: L.Nicolaides@gre.ac.uk
Food safety specialist. 35 years working in quality management and food safety, specializing in food bacteriology and mycology, for horticultural produce, fish products, meat products, cereals and pulses. Knowledge of EU food law. Experience in development of new food products, implementation of BS EN ISO9000 series, TQM systems and HACCP, design and operation of food microbiology laboratories (ISO 17025). Overseas experience in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Fluent Spanish and Greek.

 

Dr John Orchard

Email: J.E.Orchard@gre.ac.uk
Plant Physiologist/Biochemist. Twenty years experience in biochemistry and physiology of beverage, horticultural and cereal crops with emphasis on their post-harvest management; biochemistry and processing techniques of black tea manufacture; the growth and physiology of cacao and tea. Long-term overseas experience in Brazil, Ecuador, and Kenya, and short-term experience in Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Honduras, Nigeria, Malawi, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Pakistan. Fluent Spanish and fair Portuguese.

Livelihood diversification

Ruth Butterworth

Email: R.R.Butterworth@gre.ac.uk
Economist, specializing in socio-economics and rural livelihoods, rural development and agricultural markets. Extensive knowledge of rural development research approaches, techniques and analysis. Has knowledge of establishing warehouse receipt systems and market information systems, enabling smallholder market access, and regenerating local economies in post-conflict areas. Experienced in project planning, implementation and management. In-country experience includes Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, India, and Zimbabwe. Speaks fluent English and Shona (mother tongue), basic French and Portuguese.

 

Terry Cannon

Email: T.G.Cannon@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Development Studies. Specialist on rural development and sustainable livelihoods, with particular interest in non-farm employment, food security and disaster vulnerability analysis. Over 25 years experience of teaching and training in development studies, and project experience in rural development in India and Uganda. Additional expertise on the impacts of economic reforms in China, especially on poverty, regional inequality and rural development.

 

Jonathan Coulter

Email: J.P.Coulter@gre.ac.uk
Agricultural marketing economist. Over 27 years experience in marketing and food security policy, product development, technology transfer, and project appraisal, planning and management, with substantial team leadership experience. Authority on implementation of agricultural market reform and development of warehouse-receipt and inventory-credit systems. Country experience includes: Africa (18 countries); South Asia (3 countries); Southeast Asia (3 countries); South and Central America (8 countries); and Japan. Long-term experience in Honduras and Ecuador. Fluent in Spanish and French; Portuguese good.

 

Dr Nandini Dasgupta

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Ulrich Kleih

Email: U.K.Kleih@gre.ac.uk
Economist. Twenty years experience in project management, agricultural marketing analyses, trade policy, rural non-farm livelihoods, rural transport, market information services, participatory approaches, combinations of qualitative and quantitative survey methods, training, collection and analysis of farm-level data, and food security with a commodity focus on fish, roots and tubers, horticulture, cereals and livestock. Country experience in Africa (9 countries), Asia (4 countries) and Latin America, and long-term experience in Chad. Fluent in German, English and French, with good Spanish.

 

Dr Ana Marr

Email: a.marr@gre.ac.uk
Economist, with over 15 years of policy-making research, consultancy and lecturing experience in economic and financial-market development, pro-poor credit, microfinance, poverty reduction, business development services, social capital, financial services for enterprise development, warehouse-receipt systems, private capital flows, foreign direct investment, international trade and IFI conditionality. Extensive overseas experience includes 8 years with Central Bank of Peru, 2 years in Thailand, plus Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Colombia, Armenia, Romania, Tanzania, SouthAfrica and Zimbabwe. Excellent English, Spanish mother tongue, some Portuguese and Thai.

 

Adrienne Martin

Email: A.M.Martin@gre.ac.uk
Social and institutional development specialist; LIG Group Leader. 28 years research and consultancy relating to poverty, livelihoods and natural resources. Skills in: project management; leading multidisciplinary teams; planning and evaluation; community-participation methodologies; gender and technology development; indigenous knowledge; agricultural policy and institutions; social impacts of industry codes of practice. Long-term experience in Sudan and Syria; short-term missions in 15 other countries in Africa and Asia. Good Arabic and French.

 

Dr Gideon Onumah

Email: G.Onumah@gre.ac.uk
Agricultural economics and development finance. Had over 10 years experience in central banking and rural informal micro-finance, before joining NRI. Experience in commodity trade and finance, including commodity market liberalization in Africa, and institutional frameworks for inventory credit. Managed a project on Warehousing and Inventory Credit in Zambia. Has worked in developing countries on: capacity building for rural finance; urban food supply and distribution policy; and household food security.

 

Prof. Andrew Westby

Email: A.Westby@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Food Technology and NRI's Director of Research and Enterprise. Post-harvest technologist with 20 years post-doctoral experience working mainly, though not exclusively, with root and tuber crops on a wide range of issues concerned with handling, processing, marketing, food quality and food safety. Commodity experience includes cassava, sweet potato, yam, horticultural crops, maize, sorghum and legumes. Field experience in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.

Markets and trade

Ruth Butterworth

Email: R.R.Butterworth@gre.ac.uk
Economist, specializing in socio-economics and rural livelihoods, rural development and agricultural markets. Extensive knowledge of rural development research approaches, techniques and analysis. Has knowledge of establishing warehouse receipt systems and market information systems, enabling smallholder market access, and regenerating local economies in post-conflict areas. Experienced in project planning, implementation and management. In-country experience includes Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, India, and Zimbabwe. Speaks fluent English and Shona (mother tongue), basic French and Portuguese.

 

Jonathan Coulter

Email: J.P.Coulter@gre.ac.uk
Agricultural marketing economist. Over 27 years experience in marketing and food security policy, product development, technology transfer, and project appraisal, planning and management, with substantial team leadership experience. Authority on implementation of agricultural market reform and development of warehouse-receipt and inventory-credit systems. Country experience includes: Africa (18 countries); South Asia (3 countries); Southeast Asia (3 countries); South and Central America (8 countries); and Japan. Long-term experience in Honduras and Ecuador. Fluent in Spanish and French; Portuguese good.

 

Ulrich Kleih

Email: U.K.Kleih@gre.ac.uk
Economist. Twenty years experience in project management, agricultural marketing analyses, trade policy, rural non-farm livelihoods, rural transport, market information services, participatory approaches, combinations of qualitative and quantitative survey methods, training, collection and analysis of farm-level data, and food security with a commodity focus on fish, roots and tubers, horticulture, cereals and livestock. Country experience in Africa (9 countries), Asia (4 countries) and Latin America, and long-term experience in Chad. Fluent in German, English and French, with good Spanish.

 

Dr Ana Marr

Email: a.marr@gre.ac.uk
Economist, with over 15 years of policy-making research, consultancy and lecturing experience in economic and financial-market development, pro-poor credit, microfinance, poverty reduction, business development services, social capital, financial services for enterprise development, warehouse-receipt systems, private capital flows, foreign direct investment, international trade and IFI conditionality. Extensive overseas experience includes 8 years with Central Bank of Peru, 2 years in Thailand, plus Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Colombia, Armenia, Romania, Tanzania, SouthAfrica and Zimbabwe. Excellent English, Spanish mother tongue, some Portuguese and Thai.

 

Dr Gideon Onumah

Email: G.Onumah@gre.ac.uk
Agricultural economics and development finance. Had over 10 years experience in central banking and rural informal micro-finance, before joining NRI. Experience in commodity trade and finance, including commodity market liberalization in Africa, and institutional frameworks for inventory credit. Managed a project on Warehousing and Inventory Credit in Zambia. Has worked in developing countries on: capacity building for rural finance; urban food supply and distribution policy; and household food security.

 

Dr John Orchard

Email: J.E.Orchard@gre.ac.uk
Plant Physiologist/Biochemist. Twenty years experience in biochemistry and physiology of beverage, horticultural and cereal crops with emphasis on their post-harvest management; biochemistry and processing techniques of black tea manufacture; the growth and physiology of cacao and tea. Long-term overseas experience in Brazil, Ecuador, and Kenya, and short-term experience in Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Honduras, Nigeria, Malawi, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Pakistan. Fluent Spanish and fair Portuguese.

Media and Development

Valerie Nelson

Email: V.J.Nelson@gre.ac.uk
Social Anthropologist

Office Management

Joanne Downard

Email: J.M.Downard@re.ac.uk
Marketing and business develpment. Has worked with NRI since 2000. Extensive travel, marketing and sales experience in the travel industry for many years in a managerial role; sound background in workshop co-ordination; maintenance of management information systems; project data management; office management; document and data presentation; maintenance of database of skills of NRI’s Consultants and Associates; co-ordination and management of NRET and RNFE websites. Currently Business Development Administrator.

 

Yvonne Landers

Email: Y.F.Landers@gre.ac.uk
Project administration, financial control and office management. Twenty-six years experience in providing administrative, financial and secretarial support with organizational and interpersonal skills, in both the public and private sector. For past ten years has been closely involved in NRI's work on food post-harvest issues. Currently Project Controller for the Food Management & Marketing Group.

 

Katy Oliver

Email: K.Oliver@gre.ac.uk
Administrator: 18 years experience in administrative, secretarial and financial support to NRI. Currently PA to the Director, administrator for the Director's Office and providing database support to the Contracts Team. Contact point for all NRI publication enquiries. Previous experience in office management, project administration and personnel support. Background in library and information management systems.

Participatory methods for social and natural resource analysis, research and planning

Czech (Martin) Conroy

Email: M.A.Conroy@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Rural Livelihoods. Twenty-two years experience in sustainable rural development, including fifteen with NRI. Main specialisms: communication for development; community-based natural resource management (particularly forests); livestock research and development; project M&E; participatory research and development processes (including capacity building); pro-poor agricultural research, innovation and development; sustainable livelihoods. Has recently undertaken consultancies on rural livelihoods in Bangladesh and India. Has also worked in western, eastern and southern Africa, Bolivia, Brazil, Indonesia and Oman. Working knowledge of Spanish and French.

 

Adrienne Martin

Email: A.M.Martin@gre.ac.uk
Social and institutional development specialist; LIG Group Leader. 28 years research and consultancy relating to poverty, livelihoods and natural resources. Skills in: project management; leading multidisciplinary teams; planning and evaluation; community-participation methodologies; gender and technology development; indigenous knowledge; agricultural policy and institutions; social impacts of industry codes of practice. Long-term experience in Sudan and Syria; short-term missions in 15 other countries in Africa and Asia. Good Arabic and French.

 

Valerie Nelson

Email: V.J.Nelson@gre.ac.uk
Social Anthropologist

 

Barry Pound

Email: B.Pound@gre.ac.uk
Livelihoods and Farming Systems specialist. Starting as an agronomist in 1975, has steadily widened his experience through farming systems approaches to sustainable livelihood development. Interests include bridging the interfaces between social and natural sciences, and between research and extension. Currently working on: land reform projects in South Africa; privatized extension delivery in Uganda; knowledge transfer in the UK; and a joint NRI/CGIAR book on participatory natural resource management.

 

Dr Alistair Sutherland

Email: A.J.Sutherland@gre.ac.uk
Applied anthropologist. Over 20 years in rural development: institutionalizing participatory research and gender mainstreaming in agricultural research and extension; R&D policy and institutional analysis; training in social development concepts and tools. Current focus: evaluation research; capacity building in performance management; research promotional strategies for less-developed rural areas. Experience in UK and in eight countries in Southern and Eastern Africa. Bantu language knowledge includes Swahili, Tswana, Nyanja and Shona.

Performance and impact assessment

Dr Alistair Sutherland

Email: A.J.Sutherland@gre.ac.uk
Applied anthropologist. Over 20 years in rural development: institutionalizing participatory research and gender mainstreaming in agricultural research and extension; R&D policy and institutional analysis; training in social development concepts and tools. Current focus: evaluation research; capacity building in performance management; research promotional strategies for less-developed rural areas. Experience in UK and in eight countries in Southern and Eastern Africa. Bantu language knowledge includes Swahili, Tswana, Nyanja and Shona.

Project control and administration

Sharron Field

Email: S.Field@gre.ac.uk
Finance Administrator

 

Amy Guyatt

Email: A.L.Guyatt@gre.ac.uk
Management Accountant (Attached to Finance Department)

 

Yvonne Landers

Email: Y.F.Landers@gre.ac.uk
Project administration, financial control and office management. Twenty-six years experience in providing administrative, financial and secretarial support with organizational and interpersonal skills, in both the public and private sector. For past ten years has been closely involved in NRI's work on food post-harvest issues. Currently Project Controller for the Food Management & Marketing Group.

 

Mark Parnell

Email: M.Parnell@gre.ac.uk
Deputy Leader of NRI's AHE Group and invertebrate pathologist. Seventeen years working within sustainable development, comprising: five years experience of project administration and management; and twelve years experience of research and development on insect diseases as crop protection tools in the tropics. Key expertise: project financial management, client liaison, biopesticide development. Field experience in Kenya, Tanzania, Benin, India, Ghana, Thailand and Bolivia.

 

Caroline Troy

Email: C.Troy@gre.ac.uk
LIG Project Controller

Quality management systems

Heather McAvoy-Marshall

Email: H.M.Mcavoy-Marshall@gre.ac.uk
Senior Administrator with management role supporting the Director: responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of NRI’s Quality Management System to BS EN 9001; registered Internal Quality Auditor (IRCA); implementation of core management functions relating to health and safety and records management. Formerly: Senior Programme Officer and Field Manager with DFID for Bangladesh, China and the Yemen Arab Republic. Over 30 years experience in aid management and administration, finance and human resources.

 

Linda Nicolaides

Email: L.Nicolaides@gre.ac.uk
Food safety specialist. 35 years working in quality management and food safety, specializing in food bacteriology and mycology, for horticultural produce, fish products, meat products, cereals and pulses. Knowledge of EU food law. Experience in development of new food products, implementation of BS EN ISO9000 series, TQM systems and HACCP, design and operation of food microbiology laboratories (ISO 17025). Overseas experience in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Fluent Spanish and Greek.