* BSc from the International Agricultural College Larenstein (since integrated with Wageningen University), Netherlands - Tropical Agriculture with specialisation in Tropical Animal Husbandry

* Equivalent of MSc from Wageningen University - Tropical Animal Production

* PhD from Wales University (through the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies) - Socio-economic development on the topic of small scale faith based organisations.

* Worked with the Development Department of the Union Fraternelle des Eglises Baptistes in the Central African Republic from 1994 - 2000

* Have been living and working in Niger since 2004 - involved with the agricultural project Sowing Seeds of Change in the Sahel since 2014