CHAIR:
Dr. Ted Henzell
182 Dewar Terrace
Corinda
Queensland 4075
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 7 33799869
Fax: +61 7 33799734
Email: [email protected]
MEMBERS:
Dr. Derek Byerlee
Agricultural and Natural Resources Dept.
The World Bank
1818H Street, N.W.
Washington DC 20433
USA
Tel: +1 202 4587287
Fax: +1 202 6140065
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Nicolas Mateo
Apartado Postal 76-6151
Centro Comercial Santa Ana 2000
San Jose
COSTA RICA
Tel./Fax: +506 2824747
Email: [email protected]
(Asia Visit)
Dr. Gelia T. Castillo
c/o The Director General's Office
IRRI P.O. Box 3127
Makati Central Post Office (MCPO)
1271 Makati City
THE PHILIPPINES
Tel: (via DG) +63-2-818-1926
Fax: (via DG) +63-2-891-1292
Email: (via) [email protected]
(Latin America Visit and TAC Resource Person)
Dr. Elias Fereres
Director Instituto de Agricultura
Sostenible (CSIC)
Alameda del Obispo s/n, Aptdo 4084
14080 Cordoba
SPAIN
Tel. +34 957 499201
Fax +34 957 499252
Email: [email protected]
(Asia Visit)
Dr. S.S. Johl
C-21, Gurdev Nagar
Ludhiana 141004
Punjab
INDIA
Tel./Fax: +0161 409306
Email: ahuja.csihbt.ren.nic. in [email protected]
Dr. Shellemiah O. Keya (Panel Secretary)
TAC Executive Secretary
FAO
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 Rome
ITALY
Tel: +39 06 57052458
Fax: +39 06 57053298
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Ekkehard Kürschner
(Consultant/Desk Study)
International Agricultural Research for
Development
Ulrichstrasse 3
D -71364 Winnenden/Stuttgart
GERMANY
Tel: +49 7195 910908 or 2905
Fax: +49 7195 910929
Email: [email protected]
Name: HENZELL, Ted (Australia)
Position: Consultant; Adjunct Professor, University of Queensland
Expertise: Resource Management
Education: B.Agr.Sc., University of Queensland (1952); D.Phil (Plant Physiology), University of Oxford (1955); Hon. D.Agr.Sc., University of Queensland (1996)
Experience: 1956-92: Held various positions at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) - Director, Inst. Plant Production and Processing 1988-92; Chief, Div. Tropical Crops and Pastures 1986-87, 1977-85. Chairman, Sugar Res. and Dev. Corp. 1992-1995. TAC Member 1992-1997. Panel Member, 2nd EPR of ICRISAT (1984); Chairman, 3rd EPR (1990). Member of various national and international societies and advisory panels. Author and co-author of some 70 publications. Participated in Study "Priorities and Strategies for Soil and Water Aspects of Natural Resources Management Research in the CGIAR" (1995).
Name: BYERLEE, Derek (Australia)
Position: Principal Economist, Agricultural Policies Division, Agricultural and Natural Resources Department, World Bank.
Expertise: Agricultural economics, natural resource economics and natural resources management.
Education: B.Ag. Sc. in Agriculture, University of Adelaide (1962-66); M.Ag.Ec. in Agricultural Economics, University of New England (1967-68); Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Development, Natural Resource Economics and Quantitative Methods, Oregon State University, U.S.A. (1968-71)
Experience: 1966: Agricultural Development Officer, Papua New Guinea, Preparation of projects for small-holder tree crop production; 1970-71: Specialist, Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. Part of a multidisciplinary research team to construct a simulation model of the Nigerian economy, with emphasis on the links between the macroeconomy and the agricultural sector; 1974-75: Research Fellow, Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Njala University College, Sierra Leone. Organized and implemented a nation-wide rural household survey of production, consumption and migration; 1971-77: Assistant and Associate Professor (tenured), Dept. of Agric. Economics, Michigan State University. Leader of research projects on the links between technical change and employment and income distribution; 1977-83: Economist, CIMMYT, Mexico, Development of methodologies for incorporating a fanning system's approach to research, and application of those methods in national agricultural research systems. Directed research on long-term trends and policy issues in the world food economy with emphasis on comparative advantage and policy incentives; 1986: Visiting Professor, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota; 1984-87: Regional Economist, CIMMYT, South Asia (based in Islamabad). Major emphasis on developing a farmer and systems orientation to agricultural research programmes, and on research on technical change and sustainability issues in South Asia's irrigation cropping systems; 1992: Visiting Fellow, Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University, USA; 1987- 1994: Director, Econ. Programme, CIMMYT, Mexico. Administered a programme of 12-15 internationally-recruited economists based in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The programme conducted research and training in technology design and evaluation, natural resource management, research resource allocation and impacts, and applied policy analysis; 1994 to present: Present position. Author/co-authors of over 130 publications.
Name: CASTILLO, Gelia T. (The Philippines)
Position: Professor Emeritus, University of the Philippines
Expertise: Rural Sociology
Education: A.B. Psychology, College of Liberal Arts, University of the Philippines (1953); M.S. Rural Sociology, Pennsylvania State University (1958); Ph.D., Cornell University (1960).
Experience: 1953-57: Instructor in Psychology and Sociology, Department of Agricultural Education, College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines; 1955-57: Supervisor of Women Students; 1956-57: Part-time staff members. Community Development Center: 1958-60: Teaching and research assistant. Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University; 1960-66: Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology, Social Research Division, university of the Philippines, College of Agriculture: 1966-67: Visiting Professor, Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University; 1963-68: In-charge, Social Research Division, Department of Agricultural Education, College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines; 1969-70: Director, Maquiling School, Inc.; 1963-68: Chairman, Research and Evaluation Committee for Pilot Study of a Co-operative Approach to Rural Development; 1966-72: Associate Professor of Rural Sociology, Department of Agricultural Education, College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines; 1972 to present: i) Full Professor of Rural Sociology, Department of Agricultural Education, College of Agriculture; and ii) Professor Emeritus, University of the Philippines.
More than 100 articles published nationally and internationally focused on the social aspects of agriculture and rural development. She has served in more than 120 national and international Boards (such as CIP, ICRAF, IPGRI, ISNAR and IDRC), on Advisory Committees (such as ILO Rural Development, WHO Tropical Disease Research, the Ecoregional Fund UPWARD-CIP Research Programmes, etc.). Served on Review Teams (such as the Review of the CGIAR) (Panel on Science), the Review of the ACIAR, the Review of the ACAIR, the Review of the Rainfed Lowland rice Ecosystem Research Programme, Review of the International Foundation for science. Member UNESCO-UNFPA Team to evaluate the Family Planning Communication Project of the U.P. Institute of Mass Communication, 27 August to 5 September 1973. Member, World Bank, Research Advisory Panel on Agriculture and Rural Development, Washington D.C., September 6-21 1978.
Name: JOHL, S.S. (India)
Position: Director of Central Governing Board and Member of Board of Financial Supervision of Reserve Bank of India (since 1993); Chair Managing Committee, Amrdeep Memorial College, Mukandpur, Punjab
Expertise: Management
Education: M.A. in Economics and M.Sc. in Agric. Economics (1956); Ph.D. in Economics (1965; D.Litt. Hon. (1998)
Experience: Held positions as visiting professor Ohio State University 1970-72; served United nations (FAO) Project Manager and as World Bank Consultant 1974-79, 1982, 1987, 1991-93; Vice Chancellor Punjabi University Patiala 1983-86; Vice Chancellor Punjab Agric. University Ludhiana 1986; National Professor of Eminence in Economics 1986-93; served as Member of State Planning Board Punjab 1980-86 and 1993-97; Chair Agric. Prices Commission Govt. of India 1987-92, Member of Economics Advisory Council to Prime Minister 1987-93; served as President of Indian Society of Agric. Economics 1983, of Indian Society of Agric. Marketing 1989, of Indian Agric. Econ. Research Association 1987-93 and of the Punjabi Sahitya Academy Ludhiana 1990-96; published seven books and over 300 research papers.
Name: Kürschner, Ekkehard (Germany)
Position: Consultant
Expertise: Agroecology and Natural Resources Management
Education: Dipl. Ing. Agricultural Sciences (1982/83); Dr. sc. agr. Farming Systems and Land Scape Ecology (1986); University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim
Experience: 1983-85 Weed Management Specialist Department of Agriculture and University of South Pacific (GTZ Project Western Samoa); 1985-86 Instructor at Department of Plant Production and Agroecology in the Tropics and Subtropics University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim; 1997-1990 Associate scientist in multidisciplinary team and coordinator of collaborative research on epidemiology and integrated disease management, Justus-Liebig University of Giessen seconded to the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI); 1991 Project Planning and Management Assistant, Vocational Education Centre, Leipzig; 1992-1997 Coordinator for International Agricultural Research to the Federal Government of Germany, Council for Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural Research (ATSAF), Bonn; 1998 CGIAR Strategy Advisor, German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Eschborn; conducted TAC Desk Study on Systemwide Programmes with an Ecoregional Approach (1998-99)
Name: MATEO, Nicolas (Costa Rica)
Position: Costa Rican National Biodiversity Institute (INBIO): responsible for the design, development and implementation of the Institute's biodiversity prospecting activities and strategies.
Expertise: Agronomist
Education: Agronomy, University of Costa Rica, the Tropical Agronomic Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) and the University of Florida (PhD).
Experience: He has held research positions at the Costa Rican Ministry of Agriculture and CATIE and research and management positions as Associate Director for Latin America and Asia (crops) of the International Development and Research Center (IDRC-Canada), and as Director of the International Network for the Improvement of Bananas and Plantain (INIBAP) in France. Dr. Mateo worked from December 1995 to March 1999 at the National Biodiversity Institute (INBIO) and had the responsibility for the design, development and implementation of the Institute's biodiversity prospecting activities and strategies.
