Chair:
Dr. P. Bernard Tinker
Glebe House
Broadwell, Lechlade
Glos. GL7 3QS, United Kingdom
Tel: (44-1367) 860 436
Fax: (44-1367) 860-436
E-Mail: [email protected]
Members:
Dr. G.S. Bhalla
102 New Campus
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi 110067, India
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Dr. Donald L. Plucknett
Agricultural Research and Development
International
7127 Little River Turnpike, Suite 207
Annandale. VA 22003, USA
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(1-703) 354-5423 (Office) |
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Dr. Michael Denis Gale, FRS
John Innes Centre
Norwich Research Park. Colney
Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom
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(44-1603) 452-571 Ext.2596 (Office) |
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Mr. Louis R.K. Paul
6018 Loganwood Drive
N. Bethesda. MD 20852. USA
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Dr. Hiroyuki Hibino
Director, Dept. of Environmental Biology
National Institute of Agro-Environmental
Sciences
3-1-1 Kannondai, Tsukuba 305. Japan
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Mr. Roger A. Smith
1961 Silver Spur Circle
Ojai, CA 93023, USA
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Consultants
Dr. Ronnie Coffman
Associate Dean for Research
College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Director, Cornell Agricultural Exper. Station
Cornell University, 245 Roberts Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-1902, USA
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Dr. Henri Maraite
Head, Phytopathology Unit
Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
Catholic University of Louvain
Place Croix du Sud, 2. Bte 3
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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(32-10) 473-749 (Office) |
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Resource Persons:
CGIAR Secretariat
Dr. Pammi Sachdeva
Senior Management Specialist
CGIAR Secretariat, The World Bank
1818H Street. NW
Washington DC 20433, USA
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TAC Secretariat
Dr. Amir Kassam
Senior Agricultural Research Officer
TAC Secretariat
Research. Extension and Training
Division, FAO
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 Rome. Italy
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Name: TINKER, P. Bernard (UK)
Position: Senior Research Associate. Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford.
Expertise: Soil Science. Plant Nutrition. Natural Resources Management, Research Management.
Education: B.Sc. in Chemistry, Sheffield University (1951); Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Sheffield University (1955); M.A., University of Oxford (1965); D.Sc., University of Oxford (1983).
Experience: 1955-1962: Senior Scientific Officer, UK Overseas Research Service, Benin, Nigeria; 1962-65: Senior Scientific Officer, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, UK: 1965-1971: Lecturer in Soil Science, Oxford University; 1971-77: Professor of Agricultural Botany, Leeds University; 1974-77: Head of Department of Plant Sciences, Leeds University; 1977-1983: Deputy Chief Scientific Officer and Head of Department of Soils and Plant Nutrition, Rothamsted Experimental Station; 1983-85: Deputy Director and Head of Soils Division. Rothamsted Experimental Station; 1985-1992: Director of Terrestrial and Freshwater Sciences, Natural Environment Research Council; Since 1993: present position.
Has membership of a number of societies such as the British Ecological Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society of Chemistry and Industry (Chairman Agriculture Group, and Member of Council 1981-1983). He has been a member of several review groups such as the NERC Terrestrial Life Sciences Grants Committee 1977-82, the Royal Society Group on Geochemistry and Environmental Health 1982, and the Rothamsted Visiting Group 1975. Member of 1977 QQR of IITA. Chairman of First ICRAF External Review (1993) and First IIM1 External Review (1995). Member of Soil and Water Study 1996. Has published five books and some 170 papers.
Name: BHALLA, G.S. (India)
Position: Professor Emeritus. Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Expertise: Economics, agricultural economics.
Education: M.A. (Maths). University of Punjab (1951); M.A. in Economics, University of Agra (1955); Ph.D. (Econ.). London School of Economics, London (1963).
Experience: 1956-1963: Lecturer and Reader in Economics. Rajasthan University. Jaipur: 1960-63: British Council Scholar at the London School of Economics; 1966-67: Associate Professor. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada; 1967-69: Economist, Department of Regional Economic Expansion, Government of Canada, Ottawa; 1969-1975: Reader and Professor of Economics, Punjab University, Chandigarh; 1983-86: Chairman, Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, New Delhi; 1990-91: Member, Planning Commission, Government of India; 1975-1993: Professor of Economics. CSRD, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Dean, School of Social Sciences, JNU (September 1986 to April 1988); Since 1993: present position.
Prepared a research report for IFPRI, jointly with Dr. Peter Hazell of IFPRI, which is entitled Prospects for Balancing Food Needs with Sustainable Resource Management in India to 2020. Prepared a write-up on "Indian Agriculture" for the FAO publication. The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) for 1995.
Name: GALE, Michael Denis (UK)
Position: Associate Research Director. John Innes Centre, Colney, Norwich.
Expertise: Genetics, molecular mapping, plant breeding and germplasm.
Education: B.Sc. in Genetics (Hons), University of Birmingham (1965); PhD, University College of Wales. Aberystwyth (1969).
Experience: 1968-1984: Cytogenetics Department, Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge; 1984-85: Study leave. Canberra; 1985-88: UG6 IM, Cytogenetics Department, Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge; 1988-1992: Head. Cereals Research Department, Cambridge Laboratory; 1992-94: Acting Head of Cambridge Laboratory; Since 1994: present position. Consultant, molecular mapping in Hevea, Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia (1987); Technical co-operation expert for International Atomic Energy Agency for wheat, barley and quinoa breeding programmes in Bolivia (1987); Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Novel Crops and Livestock Entreprise Review Group (1987-88); Scientific Advisory Committee for the Rockefeller Foundation Rice Biotechnology Programme (1989-); Overseas Development Administration. Plant Breeding and Physiology Management Advisory Panel (1990-); External review panel CIRAD, Montpellier, France (1992); Science Advisory Group, School of Biological Sciences, Reading University (1992-); Member of UK H&S Committee on Genetically Modified Organisms, representing BBSRC (1995-); Nuffield Bioethics Committee on Genetically Modified Plants (1997-).
Name: HIBINO, Hiroyuki (JAPAN)
Position: Director, Department of Environmental Biology, National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba.
Expertise: Plant virology, plant pathology.
Education: B.Sc., Nagoya University (1961); Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Nagoya University (1966).
Experience: 1966-1982: Technical Official, Institute for Plant Virus Research: 1969-70: Visiting Scientist, University of California; 1975-78: Japan-Indonesia Joint Food Crop Research Programme, JICA, Indonesia; 1982-88: Plant Virologist, International Rice Research Institute: 1988-95: Department of Plant Protection, National Agriculture Research Centre; 1995-97 National Chugoku Agricultural Experiment Station; Since 1997: present position.
Major research interests: virus characterisation, vector relations of plant virus, epidemiology of rice virus diseases, control of rice virus diseases, cytology of virus-infected cells, plant virus serology.
Name: PLUCKNETT, Donald L. (USA)
Position: President and Principal Scientist. Agricultural Research and Development International, Annandale, Virginia, USA.
Expertise: Tropical crop and pasture management, weed control, farming systems, natural resource management.
Education: B.Sc. General Agriculture. University of Nebraska (1953): M.Sc. Agronomy, University of Nebraska (1957); Ph.D. Tropical Soil Science. University of Hawaii (1961).
Experience: 1958-80: University of Hawaii - Lecturer and Assistant Professor of Agronomy (1958-65); Associate Professor of Agronomy (1965-70); Professor of Agronomy (1970-80). 1965 Consultant (Ford Foundation) and Senior Agricultural Advisor, Aswan Agricultural Development Centre, Egypt. 1968: Visiting Professor in Agriculture, University of Brisbane. 1968-69: Visiting Scientist, IRRI. 1971: Senior Fellow, East-West Food Institute. 1973-76: Chief, Soil and Water Management Division, USAID. 1978-80: Chief, Agriculture and Rural Development Division, Bureau for Asia, USAID. 1980-94: Senior Scientific Advisor to the CGIAR Secretariat. Since 1995: present position.
Panel Member of the Farming Systems Study (1977-78) and CGIAR Resource Person in the Reviews of CIAT (1977 and 1984), CIMMYT (1982 and 1987), CIP (1983 and 1989), IBPGR (1985), ICARDA (1983), IITA (1977 and 1983), ILCA (1981), ILRAD (1980 and 1986), IRRI (1982, 1987 and 1992), and WARDA (1986), Consultant to CIP Review (1995).
Member of several scientific societies and author of numerous publications.
Name: PAUL, Louis R.K. (The Netherlands)
Position: Private Consultant
Expertise: Strategic planning, technology management, R & D management (planning, co-ordinating, prioritising, evaluating).
Education: B.Eng. (Hons), Guindy Campus, Madras University, India (1953); Business Studies Programme for Senior Executives, Sloan School of Management, MIT, Boston, Mass., USA (1983).
Experience: 1954-1991: Positions of increasing responsibility with Royal-Dutch Shell, including, Field Mechanical Engineer (1955-1968), Project Economics and Project Management (1968-73), Strategic Planning Analyst (1973-76), Head, Planning and Economics, Refining Function (1976-1983), Marketing Policy Adviser (1983-87), Head, Planning and Coordination, Research (1987-1991). In this last position responsibilities covered the planning and coordination of Shell's research programme across a worldwide network of international research centres, with a research outlay of US$ 900 million and a scientific pool of 7,000 staff; key achievements included the introduction of rigorous research reporting coupled to business-impact review of research results. These positions required long-term assignments in Bombay, Trinidad, London and The Hague; trouble-shooting and other work-related visits to many other parts of the world. Since retirement from Shell, served as a consultant on R&D Management and Evaluation, to the European Commission (Brussels), the German Ministry for Research and Technology (Bonn), and the Advisory Council for Science and Technology (The Hague), the Science Office of the Prime Minister of Malaysia, the Commonwealth Partnership for Technology Management (London) Member of CIP EPMR in 1995.
Name: SMITH, Roger A. (USA)
Position: Consultant
Expertise: Finance
Education: B.Sc., Chemical Engineering, Rice University (1962); M.B.A., New York University (1972); Graduate study in Plant Physiology, New Mexico State University (1986).
Experience: 1962-1985: Atlantic Richfield Company - positions include: 1962-65: Petroleum refinery technical service and operations management; 1965-1970: Research and implementation of computerised process control systems and integrated refinery management systems; 1970-72: Manager of Refinery Coordination; 1972-76: Manager of Strategic Planning for Refining and Marketing Division; 1976-78: Controller of Refining and Marketing Division; 1978-1980: Manager of Planning and Analysis for the Refining and Marketing Division; 1980-82: Vice President and Chief Financial officer for Atlantic Richfield's Brazilian subsidiaries; 1982-85: Assistant Corporate Controller for company-wide accounting and controls; 1987-89: Chief Financial Officer, IITA; 1989-1997: Consultant - positions include: 1990: IFPRI EMR; Review of the plans for the computerisation of accounting and finance for CIMMYT; Special report on internal and external auditing in the CGIAR for the World Bank CGIAR Secretariat; Consulting on the World Bank CGIAR Secretariat Annual Financial Report; Consultant to the CGIAR Benefits Committee to evaluate and to set up a new Association (AIARC) to administer and manage the payroll and benefit plans for the 1200 expatriate scientists and administrators employed by the twenty international research centres; 1995: CIMMYT CCER; 1992-94: Executive Director/President, Association of International Agricultural Research Centres; 1994-97: Consultant to the AIARC Executive Director and Board of Directors; 1998: ICARDA CCER.
