Email: S.R.Belmain@gre.ac.uk
Applied ecologist with 10 years experience working with scientists and communities in many African and Asian countries, providing PhD supervision, on-the-job training and capacity building. Research interests include small mammal ecology, particularly ecologically-based rodent management. Leadership of multi-disciplinary projects such as Ratzooman (on zoonoses) and Ecorat (on agricultural problems). Further interests include insect-plant interactions, stored-product and timber entomology, and ethnobotanicals (e.g. the SAPP project). More than 50 publications in scientific journals. Fluent in French and Bambara (Mali).
Email: Ben.Bennett@gre.ac.uk
Marketing economist. 18 years experience in: agricultural planning and policy formulation; monitoring and evaluation; international trade negotiation; commodity marketing and value chain analysis; participatory methods; market research; project and programme design; team leadership; and economics of post-harvest management and agribusiness. Commodity experience includes: oilseeds; grains; fisheries; non-timber forest products; wild gathered products; livestock; industrial crops; and handicrafts. Long-term experience in Nigeria, the Philippines, and Namibia. Short-term missions to 28 countries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Email: T.C.B.Chancellor@gre.ac.uk
Specialist in crop pest management and in capacity-strengthening of agricultural research and training organizations. Twenty-two years experience of research, consultancy and training in pest and disease management, research management, institutional capacity-strengthening, public-private partnerships, and climate change in relation to pests and diseases. Commodity experience includes rice, banana, groundnut and vegetables. Long-term assignments in Ghana, Indonesia and Philippines; short-term missions in a wide range of other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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.
Email: A.Cherry@gre.ac.uk
Applied entomologist. Over 16 years experience in Latin America, Asia and Africa. Specializes in biological control based on microbial pesticides. Research interests cover production, formulation and field use of insect viruses, bacteria and entomopathogenic fungi as biological pesticides in a variety of cropping systems. Has recently spent seven years in West Africa at IITA Benin, Benin leading the entomopathology programme. Has developed biopesticide registration regulations in Africa. Recently worked on codes of good agricultural practice for Mauritian horticulture.
Email: Toximet@aol.com
Emeritus Professor of Food Safety and Director of Toximet Limited, a University of Greenwich spin-out company producing simple inexpensive food-safety diagnostic equipment. A natural products chemist and specialist in mycotoxology, with 30 years field experience in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Ray has worked on the food-safety management of a wide variety of commodities, particularly edible nuts and cereals.
Email: J.E.Collins@gre.ac.uk
Laboratory Manager
Email: J.Colvin@gre.ac.uk
Crop protection entomologist and epidemiologist. Over 15 years experience in research design, experimental implementation, data analysis and PhD supervision. Interests include vector-virus-hostplant interactions, vector and virus diversity, host-plant resistance, development and use of novel IPM technologies, insect migration, and mathematical modelling. Over 12 years experience of project management involving multi-disciplinary teams and public/private partnerships in Africa, Asia and the EU. Commodity experience includes vegetables, cassava, cotton, pigeon pea, millet. Over 70 scientific and press articles published. Fluent French; basic Arabic.
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.
Email: J.F.Cooper@gre.ac.uk
Pest management specialist. 30 years experience in crop
protection, especially in control of major vegetable crop
pests. Conducts and manages research to improve safety
and sustainability of pest control, and advises DFID
on this subject. Lectures on Masters courses at Medway,
and delivers training overseas on pest management and
efficient pesticide use. Has worked in many countries,
including Kenya, Yemen, China, India, Egypt, Zimbabwe, and Somalia.
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.
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.
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.
Food Technologist
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Email: H.M.Dobson@gre.ac.uk
Pest management specialist. 19 years experience of research, consultancy, training and evaluation in safe selective crop-protection and public-health activities, including: developing and disseminating integrated pest management solutions; logistics of large-scale operations for control of locusts and human-disease vectors; consultancies and project reviews for donor agencies; multi-level training strategies to disseminate agricultural technologies. Focus crops: vegetables, tree crops, cereals (tropical, temperate). Experience in 29 countries: 19 in Africa; 10 in South & Central Asia and Middle East. Fluent French, fair Danish.
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.
Email: D.I.Farman@gre.ac.uk
Analytical chemist with over 18 years experience in analysis and formulation of insect pheromones and related natural products, and also in chemical quality assessment of horticultural produce. Wide experience of installation and maintenance of computer hardware and software, and of analytical equipment. Short-term overseas experience in Africa.
Email: S.Field@gre.ac.uk
Finance Administrator
Email: R.S.Fuchs@gre.ac.uk
Biochemist and food microbiologist. 19 years post-doctoral experience of project management, research and training. Key expertise includes food safety and quality assurance, and rapid microbiological diagnostic methods. Recently completed 9 years as Head of Programme at the International Foundation for Science based in Sweden. Numerous short-term missions in Asia, the Pacific, and South America. Good Swedish and Polish; working knowledge of French.
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.
Email: R.W.Gibson@gre.ac.uk
Plant pathologist specializing in plant viruses and their epidemiology. Experience in: control of viruses of temperate crops in UK (potatoes, sugarbeet, grass) and tropical crops in Africa and South America (cassava, maize, sweet potato); providing training in UK (MSc courses) and overseas on virus detection and diagnosis; and PhD research supervision. Successful implementation of overseas projects, including major (>US$1M) multi-partner ones. Field experience in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, South Africa, Jordan, Tunisia, Yemen, Peru, Bolivia.
Behavioural Entomologist
Email: A.J.Graffham@gre.ac.uk
Food technologist with 14 years experience in food microbiology, food safety and quality assurance, including: systems for improved national food safety programmes; HACCP systems; laboratory evaluations and reviews of microbiological and pesticide residue analysis in the export horticulture industry; and safety of informally vended foods. Extensive experience of post-harvest processing and marketing of cassava. Has worked in Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Email: D.Grzywacz@gre.ac.uk
Insect pathologist; has 20 years experience in research and development of biological pesticides. A specialist in insect viruses, he has researched or worked on all aspects of biological pesticide development, covering: initial isolation of agents; pathogenicity and genetics; laboratory and field evaluation; field ecology; production and quality control; training and plant design; registration; and commercialization.
Has extensive field experience in Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Benin, India, Nepal, Thailand and Bolivia.
Email: A.L.Guyatt@gre.ac.uk
Management Accountant (Attached to Finance Department)
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.
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.
Email: R.J.Hillocks@gre.ac.uk
Plant pathologist and integrated crop management specialist, particularly in cotton,
coffee and cassava. Expertise in design and implementation of sustainable agricultural
systems for smallholders in Africa. Interested in crop protection for organic crops. Recently managed six crop-protection projects
with national scientists and NGOs
in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique and Malawi. 27 years experience (10 with
NRI) of research and training in tropical agriculture, including 10 years long-term
in Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Good knowledge of French; some Spanish and Swahili.
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.
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.
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.
Email: pmg01@gre.ac.uk
Email: E.H.Keane@gre.ac.uk
Laboratory Manager & Administrative Support
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.
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.
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.
Email: jlegg@iitaesarc.co.ug
Vector entomologist with fourteen years of experience working in tropical pest management. Specialist expertise in the vector ecology, epidemiology and management of virus diseases of cassava and sweet potato. Skills in molecular techniques for determining variability in populations of arthropod vectors and crop viruses. Long-term overseas experience in Mali, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda. Currently based in Uganda on a joint appointment with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture.
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.
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.
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.
Email: M.N.Maruthi@gre.ac.uk
Plant virologist and vector entomologist with seven years experience, particularly on molecular variability of geminiviruses and whiteflies. Expertise in: molecular diagnosis of insects and plant diseases; DNA/RNA isolation; virus cloning and sequencing; phylogenetic analyses; fingerprinting techniques; and meristem culture of cassava. Special interest in the construction of hybrid virus clones to understand viral gene functions and virus-vector co-evolution in causing plant disease epidemics. Experience in Tanzania and Bangladesh.
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.
Email: N.Morley@gre.ac.uk
Laboratory Technician
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.
Email: V.J.Nelson@gre.ac.uk
Social Anthropologist
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Email: D.Rees@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Plant Physiology, and plant biochemist. Twenty-one years research experience in these fields, including: manipulation of photosynthetic mechanisms to improve crop productivity; cultivar selection to reduce post-harvest deterioration of root crops; use of chlorophyll fluorescence for early detection of physiological stress in stored fruit; and effects of organic production practices on post-harvest fruit quality. Long-term overseas experience in Mexico, and field work in East Africa. Fluent Spanish and good French.
Email: D.Reynolds@gre.ac.uk
Ecological entomologist specializing in insect migration and movement. Over 30 years experience in use of remote sensing to study migration of insect pests and beneficials in developing countries and, latterly, the UK. Overseas experience includes research on: locust migration; Sahelian grasshoppers; African armyworm; Helicoverpa; and brown planthopper. Currently working on: long-term automatic monitoring of high-altitude insect migration with a novel vertical-looking radar system; and the use of harmonic radar to study bee and butterfly navigation mechanisms and foraging strategies.
Email: C.R.Riches@gre.ac.uk
Weed management and farming systems. 25 years experience in support to smallholder farmers, focusing on weed science and agronomy. Principal areas of expertise are participatory development and promotion of weed control systems, including: low-input weed management; herbicide use and resistance; management of poisonous plants and parasitic weeds; and development and testing of draught-animal implements. Country experience includes: East, Central and Southern Africa; Central America; and South Asia.
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.
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.
Email: S.E.Seal@gre.ac.uk
Molecular biologist. 15 years research on nucleic acid detection and discrimination of: Ralstonia solanacearum (all hosts); badnaviruses (yam); begomoviruses (cassava, tomato); potyviruses (yam); Bemisia tabaci; and fish trematodes. Consultancy: setting up molecular diagnostic laboratories in Asia, Africa and Europe; assessing suitability of GM crops in developing countries. Teaching experience in molecular diagnostics, plant pathology and GM crops. Laboratory experience in Cyprus, France, Kenya, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe. Fluent Dutch, competent spoken French, basic Indonesian and German.
Email: T.E.Stathers@gre.ac.uk
Post-harvest IPM specialist. Over 12 years experience developing and promoting IPM technologies, including: inert dusts as grain protectants; use of farmer field school approach; cultural methods; entomopathogenic fungi; pheromones; natural enemies; and resistant cultivars. Recent work has focused on innovation systems, access to information, and service provision. Practical background in multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary teamwork, and use of participatory methodologies to identify and manage agricultural needs in disaggregated rural communities. Assignments in Tanzania, Papua New Guinea, Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa.
Email: P.C.Stevenson@gre.ac.uk
Phytochemist: Reader in Plant Chemistry. Over 15 years in isolation, identification and structural elucidation of plant chemicals, and in implementation of IPM for crop production by poor farmers. Current interests: resistance mechanisms in sweet potato to Cylas weevils; and optimizing pesticidal plant use by poor farmers in Southern Africa (SAPP project). Holds post at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Extensive field experience in South Asia and Africa.
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.
Email: J.I.Tirados@gre.ac.uk
Medical entomologist with 10 years experience in research and development of methods for controlling malaria, sleeping sickness and river blindness. Current work includes research to develop improved baits for controlling tsetse in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kenya. Extensive overseas experience in South America and Africa, including extended periods in Ethiopia and Equatorial Guinea working on mosquitoes and blackfly, respectively. Fluent in English, French and Spanish.
Email: K.I.Tomlins@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Food Safety and Quality. Over 20 years experience in international project management, research and consultancy. Expertise in cargo inspection in shipping and warehouse management. Expert in sensory evaluation and consumer acceptability. Commodity experience includes tea, coffee, cocoa, rice,cassava, sweet potato, soya, fish, fruit, vegetables, street foods. Professional experience in 17 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America during more than 70 short- and long-term assignments. Has authored 35 international peer-reviewed papers, and 55 other publications and reports.
Email: S.Torr@gre.ac.uk
Control of veterinary and medical insect pests. Over 25 years experience in research, development and field application of technologies for controlling insect pests of veterinary and medical importance. Current interests include: use of insecticide-treated cattle to control tsetse, ticks and mosquitoes; improved methods for controlling and monitoring midges and the development of artificial baits to control tsetse-transmitted sleeping sickness. Extensive overseas experience in Africa, including eight years on attachment to the Zimbabwe Department of Veterinary Services as a tsetse ecologist.
Email: C.Troy@gre.ac.uk
LIG Project Controller
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.
Further Information
Dr. Guy Poulter
Email: R.G.Poulter@gre.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1634 883226
Fax: +44 (0)1634 883386