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A forty five year old Scientist with twenty patents to his name in the field of Biotechnology, with particular reference to genetic modification in plants, with substantial experience in the Management of Research, both at Laboratory level and in the field, offers his services to an organization that places a high value on research in the area of food for the future. The applicant has successfully implemented increased crop yields in semi arid areas of Africa and has a wide net work of contacts in the field of Agricultural development in the sub Saharan continent of Africa. With wide contacts in the NGO sector in Africa and the South Eastern Asia, is ideally suited to head Transfer of Appropriate Technology and Research. A completely convinced advocate of corporate private initiative as a means of long term returns on current expenditure for developmental work, can deliver quantifiable results in the area of agricultural Biotechnology in Pure and Applied Research as well commercialization of Scientific Discoveries.
Education:
Doctor of Philosophy, (PhD) (Micro Nutrients for Agricultural Productivity) State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, USA
M Sc / B Sc( Biotechnology in Agriculture) Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Work Experience:
1995 to 2008: With the United Nations, Food And Agriculture Organization, as Consultant for Increasing Agricultural Productivity in Sub Saharan Africa and South East Asia.
1990 to 1995: With General Science Laboratories, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Senior Scientist in charge of the Africa Section. This organization is a UN funded research set up which evolves sustainable technology for agricultural productivity. As Senior Scientist, headed a research team of forty scientists and technologists from all over the world.
Other Information:
Read, write and speak fluently French and Swahili besides English.
Has published fifty papers in Scientific journals of repute all over the world.
Fellow Member of the Institute of Biotechnology, London UK.
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