Chairman
Mr. Declan Walton
14 Cleaves Avenue
Colerne
Chippenham
Wilts. SN14 8BX
UNITED KINGDOM.
Panel Members
Dr. Juan Comerma
Gerente Evaluación y Manejo de Tierras
PALMAVEN
Avenida Tamanaco
El Rosal, Apartado 3505
1010A Caracas
VENEZUELA.
Dr. Peter Dart
Principal Research Fellow
Centre for Integrated Resource
Management
The University of Queensland
Queensland 4072, AUSTRALIA.
Prof. Dr. Ir. Evert Jacobsen
Dept. of Plant Breeding
Wageningen Agricultural University
Postbus 386
6700 AJ Wageningen
THE NETHERLANDS.
Ms. Marilyn Gell Mason
12427 Fairhill Road
Cleveland
Ohio 44120
USA.
Consultants
Prof. Miguel A. Cauhépé
Secretary of Science and Technology
Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias
Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata
C.C. 276 (7620) Balcarce,
PCIA Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA.
Prof. A.M. Emechebe
Deputy Director (Research)
Institute for Agricultural Research, Samaru
Ahmadu Bello University
P.M.B. 1044
Zaria, NIGERIA.
Ms. Joan Joshi
874 East Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01002, USA.
Resource Persons
Dr. Mike Collinson
Science Adviser
CGIAR Secretariat
The World Bank
1818 H. Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20433, USA.
Dr. Pammi Sachdeva
Project Officer
The World Bank
1818 H. Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C., 20433, USA.
Name: Declan J. Walton (Ireland)
Position: Retired
Education: B.A. Modern Languages, Oxford University (1949)
Expertise: Management
Experience: 1952-56: Private sector experience, Montreal, Canada; 1956-62: various positions, Office of UN High 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. Chairman, WARDA External Programme and Management Review, 1993.
Name: Juan Antonio Comerma (Venezuela)
Position: Manager of Land Evaluation-PALMAVEN (Venezuela Petroleum S.A.)
Education: B.Sc. Agronomy, Universidad Central de Venezuela (1961); M.S. Soil Science, North Carolina State University (1964); Ph.D. Soil Science, North Carolina State University (1967).
Expertise: Soil Science, Natural Resources Management Systems, Crop/land use simulation models.
Experience: 1961-70: Agronomist, Centre for Agronomic Research, Maracay; 1970-72: Professor of Soils and Land Evaluation, Inter-American Centre for the Development of Land and Water (CIDIAT), Mérida; 1973-79: National Coordination of Soils Research, (CENIAP-FONAIAP); 1979-1983: Deputy Director and Director, National Centre for Agricultural Research (CENIAP-FONAIAP), Maracay; 1984-89: Senior Soil Scientist; 1990-now: Board Member FONAIAP; also Professor of Soil Genetics, Classification and Land Evaluation, Central University of Venezuela. Membership of several international committees on Soil Taxonomy (ICOMERT, ICOMLAC, ICOMOX), TAC member of IBSNAT, Member of IBSRAM's Coordinating Committee for the Management of Vertisols; Member of the Editorial Board of Geoderma Agricultural Research and Development and Agricultural Systems.
Name: Peter Dart (Australia)
Position: Principal Research Fellow, Department of Agriculture, University of Queensland, Brisbane.
Education: B.Sc. Agriculture (1959), Ph.D. Agricultural Botany (1964), Sydney University.
Expertise: Field crop production and farming systems, microbiology and plant nutrition, biotechnology and research management.
Experience: 1964-65: Postdoctoral Overseas Fellow (Statens Seruminstitut, Copenhagen; Statens Planteauls Laboratorium, Denmark; Biological Laboratories, Harvard University); 1965-75: Senior Scientific Officer (1965-72), Principal Scientific Officer (1972-75), Microbiology Department, Rothamsted Experimental Station; 1975-83: Principal Microbiologist, ICRISAT, Hyderabad; 1983-87: Senior Research Fellow, Research School of Biological Sciences, Department of Genetics and Plant Molecular Biology, Australian National University. Since 1988: present position. Member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of General Microbiology (1971-75) and the Journal of Tropical Forestry (since 1989). Scientific Adviser, International Foundation for Science, Sweden. Member of many international organizing committees and advisory groups. Member of review teams: ODA review of Farming Systems Programme at IITA (1972); ADAB review of their Northern Samar Integrated Rural Development Project in Philippines (1985, 1986); World Bank review of the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, Northern Areas, Pakistan (1988); AIDAB Review of Agriculture Sector Activity in Indonesia (1990); ISNAR review of agricultural biotechnology in Indonesia (1991); World Bank UNDP Review of Biotechnology and Integrated Pest Management (1993). Consultant to ACIAR, FAO, UNDP, World Bank, ICARDA, ISNAR, ODA, ADAB, UN University.
Name: Evert Jacobsen (Netherlands)
Position: Professor, Department of Plant Breeding, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands. Director of the Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences.
Expertise: Plant breeding, cell genetics, molecular plant breeding.
Education: M.Sc. Plant Breeding, Wageningen Agricultural University (1974); Ph.D. Plant Breeding, Friedrich Wilhelm University, Bonn (1978).
Experience: 1974-78: Research Assistant, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne, Germany. 1978-88: Staff Member, Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Since 1988 present position as Professor and since 1993 Director of the Graduate School. Scientific Secretary of European Association for Research on Plant Breeding (EUCARPIA). Board Member of: The Centre for Plant Breeding and Reproduction Research (DLO), The Dutch Committee for Genetic Modification, and Dutch Society of Genetics (until 1991). Member of Council of Plant Breeders' Rights.
Name: Marilyn Gell Mason, (USA)
Position: Director, Cleveland Public Library (since 1986).
Expertise: Information management/general management
Education: B.A. University of Dallas (1966); Master of Library Science, North Texas State University (1968); M.P.A. Harvard University (1978).
Experience: 1967-69: Librarian at North Texas State University Library then at New Jersey State Library. 1969-73: Department Head, Arlington Country Department of Libraries. 1973-77: Director of Library Programs, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. 1978-79: Senior Research Associate, King Research Inc. 1979-80: Director, White House Conference on Library and Information Service with Congressional mandate "to develop recommendations for the further, improvement of the Nation's libraries and information centers and their use by the public". (Was the largest White House Conference held in one place and was preceded by 58 state/territorial conferences.) 1981-82: Executive Vice President, metrics Research Corporation, providing consulting and research services to libraries and related institutions in strategy, funding, information technology and other areas. 1982-86: Director, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library (with 25 branches, a staff of 425 and annual operating budget of US$ 18 million; developed library's first long range plan). 1986-present: Director, Cleveland Public Library (third largest public research library in the country), responsible administratively for library system of 29 branches with staff of 580 and annual budget of US$ 35 million, serving population of over 500,000; passed US$ 90 million bond referendum and managed US $ 90 million capitol improvement program, among other accomplishments. Has served on boards of organizations in library and information services field as well as numerous community-based organizations.
