MICHAEL
WATT
Agricultural
Consultant – Crop Protection Specialist
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Permanent
Address:
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51 Comber
Street, Paddington
Sydney, NSW 2021
Australia.
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Telephone:
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+61 2
9331 8321
+61 (0) 414781434
(Mobile)
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Facsimile:
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+61 2
9331 8371
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Email:
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michaeljwatt@primus.com.au
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Nationality/Citizenship:
Australian
Marital Status: Married; no dependent children
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Education:
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B. Sc.
Agr. (Distinction in Entomology)
University of Sydney, 1959.
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Computer
Skills:
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Fair (MS
Office, MS Works, NS Communicator etc)
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Languages:
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English
(mother tongue); French (fair)
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KEY
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND EMPLOYMENT INTEREST
- All
phases of pre-
and post-harvest
crop protection,including extension,training,
integrated
pest
management
(IPM),
regulatory
(plant
quarantine,
pesticide control)
and applied research,
based on extensive experience and
knowledge
of crop
protection problems
in temperate
and tropical crops, as well as of grain storage,
industrial and
domestic
entomology.
- Development, utilization, management
and control of pesticides as components of
pest management systems
and emergency assistance programmes.
- Sustainable agricultural / rural development
- Identification,
formulation, implementation, management,
coordination, reporting and evaluation of technical
assistance, development, training and emergency assistance
programmes/projects, based on extensive international
experience.
COUNTRY
EXPERIENCE
Australia,
Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Western Samoa, USA, Italy,
Somalia, Angola, Ethiopia, Liberia,Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone,
South Africa, Zambia, Ghana, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Kazakhstan,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh,Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldives,
PR China, DPR Korea, Indonesia, Phillipines, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos,
Vietnam, Myanmar
EMPLOYMENT
HISTORY
January
1991 to present:
Independent consultancy practice, specializing in
crop protection, sustainable agricultural development and
project formulation/management/evaluation.
Main assignments have included:
* Quarantine Consultant, AusAIDRehabilitation Assistance
Facility Iraq - Quarantine Training for the Ministry of Agriculture,
Iraq. Adelaide and Sydney, Australia (2006)
* Legal and Regulatory Specialist on Pesticide Control and Management,
USAID Trade and Investment Program for a Competitive Export Economy,
Accra, Ghana (2006)
* Agricultural Specialist, ADB Emergency Infrastructure
Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Project (Traditional Irrigation
Component), Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan (Two assignments 2004/2005)
* Consultant for NZAID Sanitary and Phytosanitary Mekong
Project Design: New Zealand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand
and Australia (2004/5)
* Consultant for NZAID Review of the Phytosanitary Capacity
Building Project for ASEAN under the Trade and Development Programme;
New Zealand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar (2004)
* FAO Consultant, Formative Evaluation of FAO Response to the
Continuing Crisis in Southern Africa; Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola,
Mozambique, South Africa, Botswana, and Malawi (2003)
* Plant Protection Consultant, FAO Humanitarian Assistance to
Northern Iraq under SCR 986, Rome, Italy (2003)
* FAO Plant Protection and Beekeeping Consultant
under UNSCR 986, Erbil, Iraq (2002)
* Integrated Pest Management Specialist, FAO Project for
Support to the Agricultural Production and Diversifiction of the
Double-Cropping Programme in 2001, Main and Winter Crops, Pyongyang,
DPR Korea (2001)
* Consultant for preparation of project proposal for
ADB-financed Locust Management Project in Kazakstan; private
client; Canberra, Australia and Manila, Philippines (2001)
* Consultant on Need Assessment in Production/Protection of
Rice and Maize, FAO Project for Improved Management of Rice and Maize
Pests, Pyongyang, DPR Korea (2 missions, 2001)
* International Plant Protection Consultant, FAO Project for
Promotion of Non-Polluted High Quality Vegetable Production in Mountain
Area, Anhui Province; Jixi County, PR China (2 missions, 2001)
* AusAID Consultant for External Review of Project Design
Document “The FAO Intercountry Programme to Strengthen IPM
Training for Asian Vegetable Farmers”, Sydney, Australia
(2001)
* FAO Consultant, Formulation Mission for Phase II
of FAO Regional Vegetable IPM Proogramme; Thailand, Vietnam,
Lao PDR, Cambodia, Philippines and Indonesia (2000).
* FAO Cotton IPM Training Consultant, FAO/EU Project for
Integrated Pest Management for Cotton in Asia, Islamabad, Pakistan
(2000)
* STA Laboratory Specialist/Team Leader, AusAID-Papua New
Guinea Agricultural Quarantine Support Project, Port Moresby, Papua New
Guinea (2000)
* Technical Manager, AusAID-Papua New Guinea Agricultural Quarantine
Support Project, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (14 month assignment
1998-9)
* UNDP Consultant/Team Leader, Mid-term Evaluation Mission for
Integrated Pest Management Project BGD/95/003, Dhaka,
Bangladesh (1998)
* FAO Observer/Plant Protection
Consultant under UNSCR 986, Baghdad/Erbil,
Iraq (1997)
* UNDP Consultant/Team Leader,
In-Depth Mid-Term Evaluation of
UNDP Project for Efficiency and
Sustainability in Agriculture, Pyongyang,
DPR Korea (1997)
* IPM Specialist,
FAO Project for Emergency
Control of Locusts, Almaty,
Kazakstan (1997)
* Field Coordinator,
FAO Project for Aerial Control of
Crop Pests, Baghdad, Iraq (1997)
* FAO Consultant Entomologist
on Sunn Pest Control, Baghdad,
Iraq (1996)
* Plant Protection
Specialist, FAO Programming Mission to
Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq and Cairo,
Egypt (1996)
* FAO Entomologist/Plant
Protection Specialist to advise on
emergency assistance for pine forest
pest outbreak, Pyongyang, DPR
Korea (1996)
* IPM Training
Specialist, AusAID China
Agricultural Support Services
Project, Canberra, Australia (1995)
* FAO Plant
Protection Consultant, UNDP/FAO
Field Crop Protection Project,
Herat/Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan (3
missions, 1994 and 1995)
* FAO Consultant, FAO Project
for Desert Locust Training in Southern
Afghanistan, Quetta, Pakistan (1994)
* FAO Plant
Protection Consultant, UNDP/FAO
Afghanistan Agricultural Rehabilitation
Project, Islamabad, Pakistan (2
missions, 1993 and 1994)
* IPM/Pesticide
Management Specialist, EU Plant
Protection Project, Ministry of
Agriculture, Thimphu, Bhutan (2
missions, 1992)
* Consultant for preparation
of project proposal for ADB-financed
Papua New Guinea Horticultural
Development Project, private
client, Canberra, Australia (1992)
* IPM/Sustainable Agriculture
Specialist, USAID Africa Bureau
Pest/Pesticide Management Options
Analysis, Washington DC, USA (1991)
* Pest Management
Specialist, UNDP Mission for
Assessment of Conservation, Agriculture
and Preparedness Clusters in 4th and
5th Country Programmes, Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia (1991)
* FAO Consultant for
formulation of large-scale
UNDP-financed plant protection
project, Kathmandu, Nepal (2
missions, 1991)
* FAO IPM/Project
Management Consultant, UNDP/FAO
Plant Protection Project,
Hanoi, Vietnam (1991)
August
1967 to December 1990
Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Main
assignments included:
* Chief Technical
Adviser/Project Coordinator for
large-scale UNDP-funded projects aimed
at strengthening national crop
protection services in Sierra
Leone (1987-90), Vietnam
(1984-7) and Sri Lanka
(1975-80). These projects, each of which
involved budgets in excess of US$ 0.5
million, covered all phases of
crop protection i.e. training,
extension, regulatory activities
(plant quarantine, pesticide
control) and applied research.
Responsibilities focused on leadership of project
teams of up to 15 expatriate advisers and
consultants, as well as national technical and
support staff; general project
management and administration; and
overall technical direction with
particular emphasis on pesticide
control, plant quarantine, in-service
training, IPM and cotton pest
management.
* Entomologist, UNDP project
for developing applied agricultural
research, Liberia (1981-3).
Responsibilities centred on development of
entomological research in Liberian crops.
* Agricultural Officer,
Yemen Arab Republic (1971-5)
and Somalia (1967-70). Various roles,
including Crop Protection
Specialist for two large-scale
agricultural development projects in the
Yemen Tihama; Officer-in-Charge of
the second of these projects
for two years; Plant Protection Adviser
to the Ministry of Agriculture, Somalia; and Grain
Storage Specialist in UNSF Grain Storage, Marketing and Price
Stabilization Project, Somalia.
Also undertook a number of short-term consulting assignments
in conjunction with the above long-term postings, including
IPM/Project Management (Vietnam 1989-90); termite
control (Vietnam 1987); cotton IPM (Vietnam
1987); post-harvest pest
management (Vietnam 1985, Sri
Lanka 1978); and rodent
control (Maldives 1978-80).
January
1964 to August 1967
Government of
Western Samoa, Apia, Western Samoa.
Government
Entomologist, Department of Agriculture (1964); Lecturer in Crop
Protection and Zoology, South Pacific Regional College of Tropical
Agriculture (1966-7).
January
1959 to January 1964
NSW Department
of Agriculture, Sydney, Australia.
Employed as
Entomologist, with specialized responsibilities in storage, industrial
and domestic entomology. Also acted as part-time lecturer, Ryde School
of Horticulture (1961-4)
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