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.

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

Julian Quan
Email: J.F.Quan@gre.ac.uk
Social and political scientist. 27 years of development experience throughout Africa (especially Mozambique), in Latin America (especially Brazil), UK and elsewhere. Specialist expertise in land tenure and land reform; research focus on rural territorial development and rural governance under global economic and environmental change. From 1998 to 2003, seconded to DFID as specialist land adviser, playing a key role in strengthening harmonized global efforts to secure land access for the poor. Native English speaker; fluent Portuguese; good French and Spanish.

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.

Julian Quan
Email: J.F.Quan@gre.ac.uk
Social and political scientist. 27 years of development experience throughout Africa (especially Mozambique), in Latin America (especially Brazil), UK and elsewhere. Specialist expertise in land tenure and land reform; research focus on rural territorial development and rural governance under global economic and environmental change. From 1998 to 2003, seconded to DFID as specialist land adviser, playing a key role in strengthening harmonized global efforts to secure land access for the poor. Native English speaker; fluent Portuguese; good French and Spanish.