Email: L.Abayomi@gre.ac.uk
Food technologist. Ten years experience in post-harvest technology of horticultural crops and cut flowers. Researching development of electrochemical sensors for food-quality control. Expertise in: process development; implementation of food safety and quality assurance systems, including HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point); new-product development and shelf-life evaluation; and supplier-base auditing. Short-term overseas assignments in Germany, Spain, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi.
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. 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.
Email: R.R.Butterworth@gre.ac.uk
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.
Prof. Ray Coker
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 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.
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 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.
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.
Food Technologist
Email: H.M.Dobson@gre.ac.uk
Pest and vector management specialist. 25 years’ experience in project management, research, consultancy and training for poverty reduction, including: IPM in vegetables, tree crops, cotton and cereals; food safety and regulatory compliance; control of locusts, tsetse flies, mosquitoes and blackflies; multi-level participatory training strategies; institutional analysis; project and programme design. Secondments to DFID, FAO and Imperial College London. Has worked in 34 countries in Africa (2 years in Zambia), Asia and the Middle East. Good French and a little Danish.
Email: P.Douglas@gre.ac.uk
Chemical Ecology Research Fellow
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: L.Forsythe@gre.ac.uk
Gender, learning and impact specialist, with expertise in gender and diversity, livelihoods and poverty. Research focus on value-chain development of staple crops and impact on rural livelihoods. Experience in micro-credit, labour-market analysis (rural and urban), policy analysis, land issues, market-value chains, natural resource management, socio-economics. Skills in: project management, participatory methodologies, social auditing, gender analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessments. Long-term experience in India; short-term projects throughout Africa and Central America.
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); provision of training in UK (MSc courses) and overseas in virus detection and diagnosis; and expert PhD research supervision. Successful implementation of overseas projects including multi-partner projects (>US$1M). Field experience in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda (3 years), Kenya, Zambia, South Africa, Jordan, Tunisia, Yemen, Peru, Bolivia
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: 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.
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: 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 over 10 years’ experience in molecular plant virology and field epidemiology, especially on diseases caused by geminiviruses, potyviruses and whitefly vectors. Skills in: molecular diagnosis of insect and plant diseases (by DNA/RNA isolation, PCR, cloning and sequencing, phylogenetic analyses, and DNA-fingerprinting); meristem culture of cassava; and use of a ‘gene gun’. Experience in: project development, management and delivery with partners in Africa and Asia; and postgraduate student supervision. Overseas experience in Tanzania and Bangladesh.
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 health and safety and records management. Formerly: Senior Programme Officer and Field Manager with DFID for Bangladesh, China and the Yemen Arab Republic. Over 35 years experience in aid management and administration, finance and human resources.
Email: E.M.Millar@gre.ac.uk
Business Development Manager
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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. 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.
Email: h.posthumus@gre.ac.uk
Socio-economist specialized in natural resource management, combining knowledge and experience from social and natural sciences. Expertise in: agricultural economics and policy; environmental policy; rural land use; flood-risk management; soil and water conservation; market-value chains; stakeholder analysis; ecosystems approaches; impact assessment; statistical analysis; and technology adoption. Long-term experience in Burkina Faso and Peru. Excellent English and Dutch, good Spanish and French.
Email: R.G.Poulter@gre.ac.uk
Director of NRI. Agricultural scientist with over 30 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-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.
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
Reader in Molecular Biology, with 15 years research experience in nucleic-acid detection and discrimination of: Ralstonia solanacearum (all hosts); badnaviruses (yam); begomoviruses (cassava, tomato); potyviruses (yam); Bemisia tabaci; fish trematodes. Consultancy: setting up molecular-diagnostic laboratories in Asia, Africa, 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
Reader in Plant Chemistry. Twenty years’ experience in isolation, identification and structural determination of plant chemicals. Particular interest in: botanical pesticides for pest control by resource-poor farmers in Africa; chemicals in crop species (sweet potato, groundnuts, chickpea, rice, tropical trees) that confer resistance to pests and diseases. Leader of two EDF projects on pesticidal plants in southern Africa. Holds parallel post at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. PhD supervision (8 completed, 4 current). 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 post-harvest aspects of agricultural commodities: tea, coffee, cocoa, rice, cassava, sweet potato, soya, fish, fruit, vegetables and street foods. Specialist in sensory evaluation and consumer acceptability. Consultant in cargo inspection and warehouse management. Experience in 21 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America during more than 100 short- and long-term assignments. Author of 90 international peer-reviewed papers and other publications.
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
