CURRICULUM VITAE
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Institutions |
Sussex University, UK |
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Date (from-to) |
1965 to 1968 |
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Degree(s) or diploma(s) |
BSc Physics and Maths |
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Institutions |
Nottingham University, UK |
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Date (from-to) |
1968 to 1972 |
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Degree(s) or diploma(s) |
PhD Environmental Hydrology: Water Balance of an Agricultural Catchment |
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Language |
Passive |
Spoken |
Written |
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English |
5 |
5 |
5 |
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French |
3 |
3 |
3 |
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Arabic |
0 |
1 |
0 |
· 40 years’ experience in development, mainly climate, land and water management.
· In-depth experience with climate change and disaster risk management, food, land and water issues (socio-economic and technical) at global/continental/national/local level.
· Specialist in knowledge management - well practiced with analytical desk studies and production of programmes, syntheses, think-pieces and issues papers for decision makers
· Worked for several different donors and agencies on climate (change) related development
· Familiar with different donor procedures for programme development, resource mobilisation, coordination requirements and environmental screening
· Extensive experience on managing climate variability derived over many years working with a range of partner countries, institutions, scientists, donors and media
· Broad experience in climate change impact/mitigation/adaptation sectors (agriculture, water, health, forests, parks, biodiversity, disaster early warning, energy and related infrastructure)
· Experience with UNFCCC process and developing country interests – NAPAs, CDM, GEF etc., and political climate change negotiations in Africa (AUC, AfDB and UN-ECA)
· A network of climate and development contacts throughout the world (IRI, GCOS, ClimDev, WMO, Met Services, LARST et al)
· Commitment to a vision of development through the extraordinary climate change challenge
Employment record:
2001 to date Independent Consultant with the NR Group; based in UK.
1972-2001 Environmental Scientist with the Natural Resources Institute and its predecessor organisations. Manager of Resource Assessment Research Programme, 1989-1996.
1968-1972 Environmental Physics Research Assistant, Nottingham Univ., School of Agriculture.
Projects (selection)
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Date |
2011- ongoing |
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Location |
UK and Addis Ababa |
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Company |
Consultant for African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) at UN Economic Commission for Africa |
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Position |
Climate Change and Development Specialist |
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Description |
Support for the ACPC Forum on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA-I) as part of ClimDevAfrica implementation, with subsequent work towards development of a strategic plan for ACPC. |
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Date |
2010 |
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Location |
UK and Addis Ababa |
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Company |
Consultant for UN Economic Commission for Africa |
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Position |
Climate Change and Development Specialist |
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Description |
Support for the African Development Forum VII ‘Acting on Climate Change for Sustainable Development in Africa’. Production of background and issue papers, support to the meeting and production of Indicative Action Plan. |
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Date |
2009 - 2010 |
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Location |
UK and Guyana |
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Company |
Flasse Consulting |
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Position |
Climate and Development consultant |
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Description |
Support services consultancy assisting the Government of Guyana to develop its existing capacities into a national Early Warning System for Disaster Risk Reduction. |
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Date |
2008 - ongoing |
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Location |
Europe |
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Company |
IBF international, Brussels, for European Commission AIDCO |
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Position |
Lead Climate and Development consultant |
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Description |
Production of easily accessible document on Climate Change and Development Infrastructure for EU Delegations. Document designed to enable non-technical decision makers to understand the scale and urgency of addressing the CC problem and to encourage them to re-orientate assistance programmes towards scaled up mitigation and adaptation processes in developing countries (ACP particularly). Special emphasis on infrastructural priorities. |
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Date |
2006 - 8 |
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Location |
Europe and Africa |
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Company |
UN Economic Commission for Africa, African Development Bank and AUC |
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Position |
Climate and Development consultant |
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Description |
Serial consultancy support to UNECA, AUC, AfDB, DfID and GCOS (UNDP) as part of an African team conducting wide stakeholder consultation and ClimDevAfrica programme development, with multiple visits to Addis Ababa. (ClimDev is the African continental initiative which seeks to assist national stakeholder groups with adaptation to climate change through better climate risk management throughout the continent.) Activities required synthesis of much scientific work/reports and presentation to non specialists. Final outcome was a $130 million programme to be financed through the AfDB Special Climate fund (CECAFA) supported by donors and implemented through the RECs. |
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Date |
2006-7 |
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Location |
Europe |
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Company |
MWH for EU AIDCO |
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Position |
Team Leader and Consultant |
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Description |
Development of programme documents for the African Monitoring of the Environment for Sustainable Development programme (AMESD). Production of feasibility assessment and financing proposal for support from EC DG-Dev/AIDCO, after original consultants withdrew. |
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Date |
2005 & 2008 |
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Location |
Niamey, Niger |
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Company |
Met Office UK/IRI-NOAA |
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Position |
External consultant |
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Description |
To assist the continental African Centre for Meteorological Applications for Development with updating their Strategic Plan and resource mobilisation strategy. This required examination of continental scale needs and identification of appropriate technical and infrastructural methods for implementation. |
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Date |
2004 to 2006 |
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Location |
UK and Africa |
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Company |
European Space Agency |
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Position |
External consultant in water, remote sensing and development |
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Description |
To assist with TIGER Initiative development: networking, partnerships, workshops and resource mobilisation: water resource management and climate variability |
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Date |
2004 |
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Location |
Bamako, Mali |
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Company |
World Health Organisation |
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Position |
External consultant in resource mobilisation |
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Description |
Development of a proposal with WHO and the Multi-Disease Research Centre to the Global Fund, for climate induced Malaria Epidemic Control project in 8 Sahelian countries |
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Date |
2003 to 2008 |
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Location |
Home based |
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Company |
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia Univ. New York |
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Position |
External consultant in sectoral climate risk management |
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Description |
To assist with resource mobilisation, project development, team building, partnerships and institutional positioning vis a vis climate risk management in developing countries |
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Date |
2003 to 2008 |
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Location |
Almaty, Delhi, Leipzig, Niamey, Santiago |
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Company |
Met Office UK |
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Position |
External consultant in resource mobilisation, broking between stakeholder needs and donors |
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Description |
Resource mobilisation for GCOS Global Environment Fund programme of regional workshops to assess user needs in terms of climate infrastructure for coping with a changing climate. |
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Date |
1999-2000 |
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Location |
Europe and Africa |
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Company |
NRI: Consultancy to EC DG Development. |
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Position |
Programme Development Manager |
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Description |
PUMA /MSG Transition: Team leader in production of Financing Proposal, appraisal report and tenders for EC Supported Meteorological Transition in Africa project enabling some 45 countries with access to METEOSAT Second Generation. Visits to Niger, Kenya, Uganda and RSA. |
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Date |
1988 - 2001 |
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Location |
UK and Africa, Asia and Latin America |
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Company |
NRI |
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Position |
Programme Manager: Scientific and Developmental |
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Description |
Developed and managed the Local Applications of Remote Sensing Techniques (LARST) programme which produced and transferred technology and methods for directly receiving and using weather satellite data in some 40 developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. |
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Date |
1988 - 2001 |
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Location |
UK working in many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America |
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Company |
NRI |
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Position |
Programme Manager: Scientific and Developmental |
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Description |
Developed contributions to Early Warning/Disaster Risk Management infrastructure with appropriate institutions a) for drought/famine (Ethiopia, Namibia, Somalia, Sudan), Locust invasion (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia), Forest Fire (Indonesia, Nicaragua, and many African countries) and UV/Ozone hole warning in southern Chile. |
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Date |
1997 |
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Location |
Africa, - Ghana, Tanzania and Zimbabwe |
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Company |
Department for International Development, UK |
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Position |
Knowledge Manager |
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Description |
1997 Leader of multi-disciplinary research team exploring changing Information Needs in Rural Development consequent on structural adjustment and decentralisation. Project concluded that knowledge management was non-existent in many circumstances especially in agriculture. |
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Date |
1996-7 |
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Location |
Europe and Africa |
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Company |
Consultancy for European Space Agency, Swiss Development and Co-operation Agency, NORAD, IICD, STAKES, BNSC with University of Namibia and University of Dar es Salaam. |
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Position |
Knowledge Manager and Development Specialist |
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Description |
COPINE: Project proposal for transformation of rural development in 10 African countries within continental framework, by means of satellite telecommunication infrastructure linking institutions within Africa and Europe. Sectoral benefits evaluated for tele-Health, Agricultural knowledge support, distance Education, commercial Communications and good Governance |
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Date |
1996 |
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Location |
Ivory Coast and Ghana |
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Company |
NRI consultancy for UNDP/UNIDO |
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Position |
Environmental Knowledge Manager |
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Description |
Review and evaluation of UNDP/UNIDO Gulf of Guinea Large Marine Ecosystem Programme to ascertain long term sustainability of research and operational infrastructure being developed |
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Date |
1995 |
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Location |
Southern Africa ( Botswana, Malawi, RSA and Zimbabwe) |
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Company |
NRI: Consultancy for ODA and World Bank |
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Position |
Team Leader and Institutional Specialist |
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Description |
Assessment of potential for use of seasonal forecasting for improved drought risk management by a diversity of decision makers in Southern Africa. Exploration of institutional obstacles to conversion of technical climate knowledge into useable information for non-specialists. |
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Date |
1989 -1996 |
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Location |
UK |
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Company |
NRI |
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Position |
Research Programme Manager |
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Description |
Management of the ODA (now DFID) Natural Resource Assessment Research Programme. Development of local remote sensing systems for environmental monitoring and better management of disaster risks and natural resources in 15 countries in Africa (Algeria, Botswana, Ce ntral African Republic, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, Namibia, RSA, Sudan, Somalia, Zambia, Zimbabwe). |
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Date |
1987 - 1993 |
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Location |
UK based support for work in Botswana |
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Company |
Natural Resources Institute (NRI) for UK ODA |
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Position |
Environmental scientist (soil, land, water, climate) |
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Description |
Support to ODA financed SACCAR Regional Land and Water Management Project |
Long term experience overseas
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Date |
1979-1983 |
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Location |
Madagascar |
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Company |
Bureau National de la Meteorologie |
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Position |
Expert in agro-climatology and development: national infrastructure assessment and planning |
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Date |
1975-1978 |
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Location |
Yemen Arab Republic |
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Company |
Land Resource Development Centre |
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Position |
Land and Water Specialist in multi-sectoral Land Use Assessment and Planning team |
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Date |
1972-1975. |
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Location |
The Gambia |
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Company |
Land Resource Development Centre |
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Position |
Land and Water Specialist in multi-sectoral Land Use Assessment and Planning team |
More than 60 scientific papers, book chapters, international conference/workshop papers, and technical reports.