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. Over 20 years 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. Teaching aspects of biology, meteorology and airborne dispersal at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Leader of NRI's MSc and PGDip programmes in Natural Resources. Research student supervision.

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

Adrienne Martin

Email: A.M.Martin@gre.ac.uk
Director of Programme Development and Social and Institutional Development Specialist. Over 35 years experience in international development and research relating to poverty, livelihoods and natural resources. Skills in: project management; team leadership; monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment; gender and value chains; impacts of certification/labelling schemes; institutional development and capacity building; participatory methodologies; agricultural policy and institutions; Long-term experience in Sudan and Syria; short-term missions in 20 other countries in Africa, Asia and South America. 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 development and environment specialist; member of NRI’s Livelihoods and Institutions Group. 16 years experience in research and consultancy relating to poverty, livelihoods and natural resources. Experience in community development, ethical and fair trade, climate-change adaptation, indigenous knowledge, land policy, agro-ecology. Skills in: project management; planning and evaluation; participation methodologies; gender analysis and impact assessment. Long-term experience in Mexico; short-term missions throughout Africa and Latin America. English mother tongue and good Spanish.

Barry Pound

Email: B.Pound@gre.ac.uk
Livelihoods and Farming Systems specialist with over 30 years' experience. Started as an agronomist and has steadily widened his experience through farming-systems approaches to sustainable-livelihood development and agricultural innovation systems. Interests include bridging the interfaces between social and natural sciences, and between research and extension. Currently working on: Fairtrade impact assessment; pluralistic extension delivery; rural-livelihoods assessment in Afganistan; and a joint World Bank/EU review of ASARECA.

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
Twenty years’ experience in provision of administrative and contract/financial management support to NRI. Contact point for all NRI publication enquiries. Previous experience with NRI includes PA/secretarial support, library and records management, and project control. Current role Executive Officer for the Office of the Director.

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

Dr John Holt

Email: J.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Resource Modelling. Expertise in disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, systems approaches, risk analysis and mathematical modelling. 25 years’ research experience. Current interests in risk analysis methodologies for plant quarantine and invasive species, insect-vectored plant virus diseases, insect pest outbreak prediction, and farmer-participatory pest forecasting. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and South-East 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

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. Over 20 years 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. Teaching aspects of biology, meteorology and airborne dispersal at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Leader of NRI's MSc and PGDip programmes in Natural Resources. Research student supervision.

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 over 30 years’ experience, especially in agricultural/food marketing and upgrading through distinctiveness, processing and economic development. Projects include: market development for vitamin-A-rich sweet potato varieties in Uganda and Mozambique; IP-value capture in Kenya and Zambia; promoting agribusiness and food safety in the Caribbean. Masters-level course leader on: agricultural and food marketing; corporate social responsibility; natural resources management. Field experience in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, including long-term assignments in Malawi, Mauritius, Papua New Guinea. Excellent French.

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

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.E.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. Over 20 years 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. Teaching aspects of biology, meteorology and airborne dispersal at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Leader of NRI's MSc and PGDip programmes in Natural Resources. Research student supervision.

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
Director of Programme Development and Social and Institutional Development Specialist. Over 35 years experience in international development and research relating to poverty, livelihoods and natural resources. Skills in: project management; team leadership; monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment; gender and value chains; impacts of certification/labelling schemes; institutional development and capacity building; participatory methodologies; agricultural policy and institutions; Long-term experience in Sudan and Syria; short-term missions in 20 other countries in Africa, Asia and South America. Good Arabic and French.

Barry Pound

Email: B.Pound@gre.ac.uk
Livelihoods and Farming Systems specialist with over 30 years' experience. Started as an agronomist and has steadily widened his experience through farming-systems approaches to sustainable-livelihood development and agricultural innovation systems. Interests include bridging the interfaces between social and natural sciences, and between research and extension. Currently working on: Fairtrade impact assessment; pluralistic extension delivery; rural-livelihoods assessment in Afganistan; and a joint World Bank/EU review of ASARECA.

Farming systems analysis

Dr John Holt

Email: J.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Resource Modelling. Expertise in disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, systems approaches, risk analysis and mathematical modelling. 25 years’ research experience. Current interests in risk analysis methodologies for plant quarantine and invasive species, insect-vectored plant virus diseases, insect pest outbreak prediction, and farmer-participatory pest forecasting. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and South-East Asia and the Caribbean.

Dr Alastair Orr

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Barry Pound

Email: B.Pound@gre.ac.uk
Livelihoods and Farming Systems specialist with over 30 years' experience. Started as an agronomist and has steadily widened his experience through farming-systems approaches to sustainable-livelihood development and agricultural innovation systems. Interests include bridging the interfaces between social and natural sciences, and between research and extension. Currently working on: Fairtrade impact assessment; pluralistic extension delivery; rural-livelihoods assessment in Afganistan; and a joint World Bank/EU review of ASARECA.

Dr Alistair Sutherland

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Food Security

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 Postharvest Entomology. Specialist in the reduction of grain postharvest losses, 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. 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.

Prof. Andrew Westby

Email: A.Westby@gre.ac.uk
Director of NRI and Professor of Food Technology. Post-harvest technologist with a specific interest in food security and income generation in developing counties with more than 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

Dr. Louise Abayomi

Email: L.Abayomi@gre.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow. Over ten years experience as a Technologist of perishable crops in the private sector. She has consultancies in the horticulture industry, advising on the management and handling of most crop categories including minimally processed salads and cut flowers. Further roles include the assessment of analytical techniques within the food chain and the implementation of quality management (HACCP) systems.

Gender issues: participatory approaches

Adrienne Martin

Email: A.M.Martin@gre.ac.uk
Director of Programme Development and Social and Institutional Development Specialist. Over 35 years experience in international development and research relating to poverty, livelihoods and natural resources. Skills in: project management; team leadership; monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment; gender and value chains; impacts of certification/labelling schemes; institutional development and capacity building; participatory methodologies; agricultural policy and institutions; Long-term experience in Sudan and Syria; short-term missions in 20 other countries in Africa, Asia and South America. Good Arabic and French.

Dr Alistair Sutherland

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Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing

Dr Peter Burt

Email: P.J.A.Burt@gre.ac.uk
Biometeorologist. Over 20 years 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. Teaching aspects of biology, meteorology and airborne dispersal at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Leader of NRI's MSc and PGDip programmes in Natural Resources. Research student supervision.

Dr Robert Ridgway

Email: R.B.Ridgway@gre.ac.uk
Land-use planner and land-tenure specialist with more than 40 years' experience in consultancy and training on participatory approaches to land development. Skills focus on project management and institutional strengthening of national land-administration agencies. Advice has been given through long-term and short-term assignments in Africa, Caribbean, South-East Asia and CIS countries. Based since 2005 in Namibia on long-term EC programme as land-reform adviser to Ministry of Lands and Resettlement.

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.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Resource Modelling. Expertise in disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, systems approaches, risk analysis and mathematical modelling. 25 years’ research experience. Current interests in risk analysis methodologies for plant quarantine and invasive species, insect-vectored plant virus diseases, insect pest outbreak prediction, and farmer-participatory pest forecasting. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and South-East Asia and the Caribbean.

Information management

Dr John Holt

Email: J.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Resource Modelling. Expertise in disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, systems approaches, risk analysis and mathematical modelling. 25 years’ research experience. Current interests in risk analysis methodologies for plant quarantine and invasive species, insect-vectored plant virus diseases, insect pest outbreak prediction, and farmer-participatory pest forecasting. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and South-East Asia and the Caribbean.

Dr Peter Burt

Email: P.J.A.Burt@gre.ac.uk
Biometeorologist. Over 20 years 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. Teaching aspects of biology, meteorology and airborne dispersal at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Leader of NRI's MSc and PGDip programmes in Natural Resources. Research student supervision.

Information technology

Karen Birkbeck

Email: K.E.Birkbeck@gre.ac.uk
Information technology (IT) specialist. Over 21 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.

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
Director of Programme Development and Social and Institutional Development Specialist. Over 35 years experience in international development and research relating to poverty, livelihoods and natural resources. Skills in: project management; team leadership; monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment; gender and value chains; impacts of certification/labelling schemes; institutional development and capacity building; participatory methodologies; agricultural policy and institutions; Long-term experience in Sudan and Syria; short-term missions in 20 other countries in Africa, Asia and South America. 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 with over 30 years' experience. Started as an agronomist and has steadily widened his experience through farming-systems approaches to sustainable-livelihood development and agricultural innovation systems. Interests include bridging the interfaces between social and natural sciences, and between research and extension. Currently working on: Fairtrade impact assessment; pluralistic extension delivery; rural-livelihoods assessment in Afganistan; and a joint World Bank/EU review of ASARECA.

Dr Alistair Sutherland

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Laboratory management and services

Joyce Collins

Email: J.E.Collins@gre.ac.uk
Microbiology Laboratory Manager with experience in analyzing food, potable water and pharmaceuticals. Experienced in laboratory management systems including ISO 17025 and ISO 9000 series.

Evie Keane

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

Natalie Morley

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

Dr. Louise Abayomi

Email: L.Abayomi@gre.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow. Over ten years experience as a Technologist of perishable crops in the private sector. She has consultancies in the horticulture industry, advising on the management and handling of most crop categories including minimally processed salads and cut flowers. Further roles include the assessment of analytical techniques within the food chain and the implementation of quality management (HACCP) systems.

 

Legislation, ethical trade, fair trade and certification

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
Director of Programme Development and Social and Institutional Development Specialist. Over 35 years experience in international development and research relating to poverty, livelihoods and natural resources. Skills in: project management; team leadership; monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment; gender and value chains; impacts of certification/labelling schemes; institutional development and capacity building; participatory methodologies; agricultural policy and institutions; Long-term experience in Sudan and Syria; short-term missions in 20 other countries in Africa, Asia and South America. Good Arabic and French.

Valerie Nelson

Email: V.J.Nelson@gre.ac.uk
Social development and environment specialist; member of NRI’s Livelihoods and Institutions Group. 16 years experience in research and consultancy relating to poverty, livelihoods and natural resources. Experience in community development, ethical and fair trade, climate-change adaptation, indigenous knowledge, land policy, agro-ecology. Skills in: project management; planning and evaluation; participation methodologies; gender analysis and impact assessment. Long-term experience in Mexico; short-term missions throughout Africa and Latin America. English mother tongue and 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.

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. Louise Abayomi

Email: L.Abayomi@gre.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow. Over ten years experience as a Technologist of perishable crops in the private sector. She has consultancies in the horticulture industry, advising on the management and handling of most crop categories including minimally processed salads and cut flowers. Further roles include the assessment of analytical techniques within the food chain and the implementation of quality management (HACCP) systems.

Livelihood diversification

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
Director of Programme Development and Social and Institutional Development Specialist. Over 35 years experience in international development and research relating to poverty, livelihoods and natural resources. Skills in: project management; team leadership; monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment; gender and value chains; impacts of certification/labelling schemes; institutional development and capacity building; participatory methodologies; agricultural policy and institutions; Long-term experience in Sudan and Syria; short-term missions in 20 other countries in Africa, Asia and South America. Good Arabic and French.

Dr Gideon Onumah

Email: G.E.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
Director of NRI and Professor of Food Technology. Post-harvest technologist with a specific interest in food security and income generation in developing counties with more than 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

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.E.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 development and environment specialist; member of NRI’s Livelihoods and Institutions Group. 16 years experience in research and consultancy relating to poverty, livelihoods and natural resources. Experience in community development, ethical and fair trade, climate-change adaptation, indigenous knowledge, land policy, agro-ecology. Skills in: project management; planning and evaluation; participation methodologies; gender analysis and impact assessment. Long-term experience in Mexico; short-term missions throughout Africa and Latin America. English mother tongue and good Spanish.

Office Management

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
Twenty years’ experience in provision of administrative and contract/financial management support to NRI. Contact point for all NRI publication enquiries. Previous experience with NRI includes PA/secretarial support, library and records management, and project control. Current role Executive Officer for the Office of the Director.

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 sixteen with NRI. Main specialisms: communication for development; community-based natural resource management (particularly forests); livestock research and development; project M&E and impact assessment; participatory research and development processes (including capacity building); pro-poor agricultural research, innovation and development; sustainable livelihoods. Extensive experience in India and has recently worked in western, eastern and southern Africa. Also experience in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Indonesia and Oman. Working knowledge of Spanish and French.

Adrienne Martin

Email: A.M.Martin@gre.ac.uk
Director of Programme Development and Social and Institutional Development Specialist. Over 35 years experience in international development and research relating to poverty, livelihoods and natural resources. Skills in: project management; team leadership; monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment; gender and value chains; impacts of certification/labelling schemes; institutional development and capacity building; participatory methodologies; agricultural policy and institutions; Long-term experience in Sudan and Syria; short-term missions in 20 other countries in Africa, Asia and South America. Good Arabic and French.

Valerie Nelson

Email: V.J.Nelson@gre.ac.uk
Social development and environment specialist; member of NRI’s Livelihoods and Institutions Group. 16 years experience in research and consultancy relating to poverty, livelihoods and natural resources. Experience in community development, ethical and fair trade, climate-change adaptation, indigenous knowledge, land policy, agro-ecology. Skills in: project management; planning and evaluation; participation methodologies; gender analysis and impact assessment. Long-term experience in Mexico; short-term missions throughout Africa and Latin America. English mother tongue and good Spanish.

Barry Pound

Email: B.Pound@gre.ac.uk
Livelihoods and Farming Systems specialist with over 30 years' experience. Started as an agronomist and has steadily widened his experience through farming-systems approaches to sustainable-livelihood development and agricultural innovation systems. Interests include bridging the interfaces between social and natural sciences, and between research and extension. Currently working on: Fairtrade impact assessment; pluralistic extension delivery; rural-livelihoods assessment in Afganistan; and a joint World Bank/EU review of ASARECA.

Dr Alistair Sutherland

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Performance and impact assessment

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Project control and administration

Sharron Field

Email: S.Field@gre.ac.uk
Projects Manager

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. Nineteen years working within sustainable development, comprising: seven 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; and biopesticide development. Field experience in Kenya, Tanzania, Benin, India, Ghana, Thailand and Bolivia.

Caroline Troy

Email: C.Troy@gre.ac.uk
Publicity Development Manager & LIG Project Controller

Quality management systems

Heather McAvoy-Marshall

Email: H.M.Mcavoy-Marshall@gre.ac.uk
Senior Executive Officer 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 human resources, records management and health and safety. Formerly: Senior Programme Officer and Field Manager with DFID for Bangladesh, China and the Yemen Arab Republic. Over 35 years experience in aid management 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.

Dr. Louise Abayomi

Email: L.Abayomi@gre.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow. Over ten years experience as a Technologist of perishable crops in the private sector. She has consultancies in the horticulture industry, advising on the management and handling of most crop categories including minimally processed salads and cut flowers. Further roles include the assessment of analytical techniques within the food chain and the implementation of quality management (HACCP) systems.