Chairman
Mr. Declan J. Walton
Oliveto
52024 Loro Ciuffenna (AR)
Italy
Members
Mr. Claude Charreau
26, Grande Rue Charles de Gaulle
94130 Nogent sur Marne
France
Professor Alphonse M. Emechebe
Dean
Faculty of Agriculture
Ahmadu Bello University
P.M.B. 1044, Zaria
Nigeria
Dr. Elmer W. Learn
1702 Sycamore Lane
Davis, CA 95616
U.S.A.
Mr. Jean-Yves Maillat
Chief
Language Services Division
The World Bank
1818 H Street, N.W.
Washington D.C. 20433
U.S.A.
Dr. Donald McDonald
Regional Director
NSW Agriculture
(161 Kite Street)
Locked Bag No. 1
Orange, NSW 2800
Australia
Dr. Shem E. Migot-Adholla
Senior Rural Sociologist
Agriculture & Natural Resources Department
The World Bank
1818 H Street, N.W.
Washington D.C. 20433
U.S.A.
Panel Secretary
Dr. Amir Kassam
Senior Agricultural Research Officer
TAC Secretariat
Research and Technology Development Division, FAO
Via delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 Rome, Italy
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Name: Declan J. Walton (Ireland)
Position: Consultant
Education: B.A. (Hons.) Modern Languages, Oxford University (1949)
Expertise: Management
Experience: 1952-56: Private sector experience, Montreal, Canada; 1956-62: various positions, Office of UN Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva and Morocco; 1962-64: Special Assistant to Deputy Under-Secretary for Economic and Social Affairs, UN Headquarters; 1964-67: World Food Programme, Rome; 1968-75: Chef de Cabinet of Director-General, FAO; 1975-80: Director, Office for Inter-Agency Affairs, FAO; 1981-85: Independent Consultant; 1986-88: Deputy Director-General, FAO; 1988-91: Special Adviser to Director-General, FAO. Assignments as Independent Consultant (1981-85) including preparation of long-range plans for IITA and ICARDA, and strategy paper for ISNAR. Chairman, ICRISAT External Management Review Panel, 1990.
Name: Claude Charreau (France)
Position: Consultant
Education: Agronomy, Institut National Agronomique, Paris (1949); Tropical Agronomy, Ecole Supérieure d'Application d'Agronomie Tropicale (1950); Pedology, ORSTOM (1952)
Expertise: Crop and Resource Management
Experience: 1952-57: Soil survey and soil conservation in francophone West Africa, Inspection Generate de l'Agriculture, Dakar, Senegal; 1957-63: Soil Scientist, Agricultural Research Centre (CRA), Bambey, Senegal; 1964-70: Group Head, "Study and Improvement of the Environment", CRA, Bambey, Senegal; 1970-75: Central Technical Services of IRAT, France; 1975-81: Director of African Cooperative Programme, ICRISAT, Dakar; 1981-85: Research Director, IRAT; 1985-91: Director, IRAT-CIRAD, France. Visiting Professor at Cornell University (1974); Member of the ICRISAT Board of Trustees (1983-90). Member of the ICARDA 1983 External Review. Member of the IBSRAM 1991 External Review.
Name: Alphonse M. Emechebe (Nigeria)
Position: Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
Education: B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture (1966); Ph.D. Plant Pathology (1971), Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Expertise: Plant and Seed Pathology, Research and University Administration
Experience: 1966-71: Demonstrator in Mycology, Agricultural Botany, Plant Pathology and Crop Protection; 1971-76: Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Plant Pathology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; 1976-80: Senior and Principal Research Fellow in Plant Pathology, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Nigeria; 1978-82: Head, Plant Pathology Section, Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), ABU, Zaria; Since 1980: Professor of Plant Pathology, ABU, Zaria; 1980-82: Programme Leader, Grain Legumes Improvement Programme, IAR, ABU, Zaria; 1982-86: Head, Department of Crop Protection, Faculty of Agriculture/IAR, ABU, Zaria; 1984-85: Visiting Scientist (Cowpea Pathologist), Grain Legume Improvement Programme, IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria; Since 1988: Programme Leader, Legumes and Oilseeds Improvement Programme, IAR, ABU, Zaria; Since 1989: Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, ABU, Zaria.
Name: Elmer W. Learn (U.S.A.)
Position: Professor of Agricultural Economics (Emeritus), University of California, Davis
Education: B.S. (1950), M.S. (1951), and Ph.D. (1957) Agricultural Economics, Pennsylvania State University
Expertise: Agricultural Economics, University Administration
Experience: 1956-69: University of Minnesota, Professor of Agricultural Economics (1956-69), Head, Department of Agricultural Economics (1963-64), Executive Assistant to the President and Director of Planning; 1969-92: University of California, Davis, Professor of Agricultural Economics (1969-92), Executive Vice Chancellor (1969-84). Vice Chair, Policy and Planning Board, UC/Government of Egypt Agricultural Development Systems Project (1978-82). Member of U.C. Retirement System Board (1981-87). Consultant, US Department of Agriculture (1982-84), Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank (1984).
Name: Jean-Yves Maillat (France)
Position: Chief, Language Services Division, The World Bank
Education: Maîtrise en Sciences Economiques, University of Nancy, France (1969); MBA Marketing and Management, New York University (1972)
Expertise: Human Resource Management, Organization and Management Issues
Experience: 1969-70: Manager, COFAC, France; 1973-78: Management Consultant with Booz Alien & Hamilton International in Egypt and Algeria; 1978-83: Freelance Management Consultant, Qatar Petrochemical Company (French/Qatari joint venture) and for Booz Alien & Hamilton; 1983-87: Senior Management Consultant, Organization Planning Department, World Bank; 1987-88: Head, Internal Management Consultancy Unit, Personnel Department, World Bank - Major assignments (1983-1988): strategy and policy studies, management reviews and organization studies, chargeback and contracting out studies, institutional development; 1989-90: Head, Economics Training Programme, Training Division, World Bank; 1990-92: Head, Language Training Programme, Training Division, World Bank; Since 1992: Chief, Language Services Division, World Bank.
Name: Donald McDonald (Australia)
Position: Regional Director, Department of Agriculture, Orange, New South Wales (NSW), Australia
Education: B.Sc. Agr. (1957), M.Sc. Agr. (1968), University of Sydney; Ph.D. Genetics and Plant Breeding, Texas A&M University (1971)
Expertise: Rice Breeding, Agronomy, Research Management
Experience: 1957-73: Rice Breeder and Research Agronomist, Agricultural Research Centre, Yanco, NSW; 1973-81: Regional Director of Research, Agricultural Research Centre, Yanco, NSW; 1978-83: Research Specialist, World Bank/UNDP Rice Seed Production Project, Burma; Since 1981: Regional Director, Department of Agriculture, Orange, NSW. Member of the external review team for review of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (1982). Consultant to ACIAR on projects in Burma and Thailand. Other international experience in China, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Japan and U.S.A. Member of Inter-Centre Review of Rice (1992-93).
Name: Shem E. Migot-Adholla (Kenya)
Position: Senior Sociologist, Agriculture and Natural Resource Department, The World Bank
Education: B.A. (Hons.) Political Science and Sociology, University College, Dar-es-Salaam, University of East Africa (1966-69); M.A. Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles (1969-71); Special Graduate Student in Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University (1971-72); Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles (1975-76)
Expertise: Rural Sociology
Experience: 1969: Tutorial Assistant, Department of Political Science, University College, Dar-es-Salaam; 1972: Assistant Lecturer, Sociology Department, University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania; 1973-77: Research Fellow, Institute for Development Studies (IDS), and Lecturer in Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi, Kabete Campus; 1977-80: Senior Research Fellow, IDS, and Lecturer in Sociology Department, University of Nairobi; 1984-86: Chairman, Department of Sociology, University of Nairobi; 1980-90: Associate Research Professor, IDS, University of Nairobi; Since 1986: Senior Rural Sociologist, Agriculture and Natural Resources Department, World Bank.
