Key experience includes:
Programme Management;
Project Identification;
Project Monitoring;
Rural Development and Agro-business Management Technical Specialist;
Project Team Leader.
Regional experience:
West, Central and Southern Africa; Central Asia; Oceania; South East Asia; Europe
Specific Country Experience:
Nigeria, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Solomon Islands, Swaziland, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Zambia, UK and Europe.
EDUCATION
Institution: Department of Agriculture, Reading University
Date: 1966
Degree obtained: B.Sc. (Hons) Animal Nutrition
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Spoken
Written
Read
English
5
5
5
French
3
2
3
Russian
3
2
3
Uzbek
1
1
2
OTHER SKILLS
Computer skills: fully experienced in computer
hardware and software including MS-DOS, Windows, Word, Excel, Access,
PowerPoint, D-base, Super Project, Local Area Networks, e-mail.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Date: 2005 (Oct) to 2006 (July)
Location: Liberia
Position: Team Leader, Technical Assistance to National Authorising Officer
Description Replacement Team
leader responsible for a project programming and supervising the use of
EDF9 funds for Liberia including project implementation. Also
responsible for providing advice and information to the National
Authorising Officer and liaising daily with the European Commission
Delegation both in Monrovia and in Abidjan.
Date: 2005 (Jan) to (end Sep)
Location: Solomon Islands
Position: Adviser, EC Programme Management Unit
Description Advised the National
Authorising Officer on utilisation of funds under EDF9 and STABEX 98
including preparation of IP’s, TOR and tendering dossiers for
Micro Projects, Inter Island Shipping support, Rural wharf construction
and Copra and Cocoa post harvest support including micro credit to
enhance rural development.
Work was also done on a programme on promotion of
sustainable forestry with Department of Forestry together with WB/GEF
and AusAid. In addition made proposals for the institutional
development of the Department of National Reform and Planning.
Date: 2002 (July) to 2004 (October)
Location: Uzbekistan
Position: Co-ordinator, Europa House, Tashkent
Description Contracted directly
by the European Commission to set up and be responsible for a permanent
office of the European Commission in Uzbekistan providing programme and
project implementation and management support as well as information.
Responsibilities included provision of technical
assistance in the preparation of Country Strategy Papers, Indicative
and Action Programmes through preparation of sector reviews and/or
special studies on thematic areas. Political and economic reports were
compiled monthly or more frequently as necessary. Participated in all
programming, project identification and follow-up missions. Europa
House also provided a central logistic support and management facility
for the Small Projects Programmes of Tacis in the country as well as
TEMPUS.
Date: 2000 (August) 2002 (July)
Location: Uzbekistan (Tacis)
Position: Adviser, National Coordinating Unit, Tashkent
Description: Following the
EC’s change of emphasis for Support for the National Coordinating
Unit, was the sole expatriate Planning and Programming Adviser to the
Uzbek government’s Unit.
Date: 1996 (September) to 2000 (July)
Location: Uzbekistan (Tacis)
Position: Team Leader, EU-Tacis Coordinating Unit, Tashkent
Description: Was responsible for
the Tacis Coordinating Unit in Uzbekistan located within, and advising,
the Cabinet of Ministers on its utilisation of Tacis grant funding (29
M€ for 1998-99 and 15 M€ for 2000-1) and for project
identification, programming and implementation in all sectors.
Tasks included the identification of, and liaison
with, local partner organisations, both current and potential, and
formulation of strategies and programmes in conjunction with those
partners.
Responsibility for the sectors in which Tacis
operates in Uzbekistan was shared between the two expatriate team
members working with nine government officers. The Team Leader had
specific responsibility for the agricultural, rural development, small
medium enterprise and the financial and privatisation sectors. The
identification of projects, writing Project Fiches and drafting Terms
of Reference for projects in these sectors was also carried out. In
addition, co-ordination with other international donor agencies was an
important component of the work.
Regular communication with officials of the
European Commission took place almost daily, and even more frequently
with senior officials of the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Date: 1995 (October) - 1996 (September)
Location: Uzbekistan (Tacis)
Position: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
Description: Resident monitor
for Tacis projects based in Uzbekistan. Set up the Tacis monitoring
office in Tashkent and recruited and trained local staff. Monitored and
evaluated on a regular basis all Tacis rural sector projects in
Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan together with projects in other sectors
including liaison with local beneficiaries of these projects.
Date: 1995 (May - June)
Location: Kyrgyzstan (ADB)
Position: Enterprise Operations and Management Specialist
Description: Short-term input on
Asian Development Bank funded Agricultural Programme Loan, Project
Preparatory Technical Assistance. Responsible for the analysis of
existing policies on farm inputs especially seeds, fertiliser, farm
machinery spares and agrochemicals. Made policy recommendations on the
indigenous production of seeds and the modalities of procurement and
distribution of other inputs.
Date: 1995
Location: Turkmenistan (Tacis)
Position: Cereal Processing and Management Specialist
Description: Short-term input on
Tacis funded “Technical Assistance in Training and Education in
the Agricultural and Food Sectors” as Cereal Processing and
Management Specialist. Work carried out included lecturing teaching
staff and students and the preparation of teaching materials and
syllabuses.
Date: 1994 (May) to 1995 (April)
Location: Kyrgyzstan (Tacis)
Position: Agro- Industrial Specialist
Description: Responsible for the
Agro-Industrial Sectors on a Tacis project providing Sectoral Support
to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Work involved participation in
the formulation of Policy Strategy and Master Plans for the
agricultural sector and for rural development.
In addition, was responsible for the co-ordination of the inputs of twenty short-term specialists.
Date: 1993 (April) to 1994 (March)
Location: Ukraine (Tacis)
Position: Team Leader
Description: Responsible for an
EU-Tacis project designed to Improve the Supply and Distribution of
Meat, Milk, Fruit and Vegetables and Animal Feed in the Odessa Oblast.
The resident team comprised six multinational EU long-term experts
together with fourteen short-term consultants. Work carried out
included short-term technical assistance together with training
programmes. A regional action plan was formulated including feasibility
studies to international banking standards and further project work was
identified.
Date: 1993
Location: Swaziland (AfDB)
Position: Processing and Marketing Specialist
Description: Reviewed maize
marketing and processing on an African Development Bank funded study,
making recommendations on the future structure of the monopolistic
National Maize Corporation and the privately owned processing facility
which it leased. An analysis of mill efficiencies and a comparison with
the South African milling industry was made. Smaller, privately owned
processing plants were examined and their economic potential assessed.
Advised on regional storage silos, strategic maize supplies and made
recommendations on the liberalisation of maize processing.
Date: 1991 to 1992
Location: Nigeria
Position: General Manager
Description: Responsible for all
aspects of operation of an internationally owned vegetable oil mill,
animal feed mill and canister producing factory. Controlled all
finances, raw material buying, production control, staffing, training
and sales. All accounting and budgetary procedures were computerised
during the period.
Date: 1988 to 1991
Location: Zambia
Position: Chief Executive
Description: With a mandate to
improve profitability before privatisation, was wholly responsible for
a parastatal, vegetable oil mill producing cooking oil, margarine,
soap, and animal feed. Led a team of six expatriates and turned loss
into profit within eighteen months of a three-year contract. Major
plant rehabilitation was carried out using internally generated funds.
The labour force was reduced to 450 from 700 employees.
Prepared tender documents, evaluated international
bids and negotiated contracts for raw materials exceeding USD 12
million per annum, arranging the financing of the same through local
and international banks.
Date: 1988
Location: UK
Position: Consultant
Description: Provided a
feasibility study on the animal feed requirements (predominantly dairy
and sheep) and the processing plants required, together with estimates
of volumes and costs of likely imported ingredients for the Great Man
Made River Project, Libya.
Date: 1987
Location: Thailand
Position: Consultant
Description: Specific
responsibility for the formulation of the agro-processing policy
section of a regional development master plan for North East Thailand
covering 168,000 km2. Recommended alternative processing and uses for
existing agro produce and crop diversification to enhance the
development of the rural economy following the imposition of an EU
import quota on tapioca products.
Date: 1984 to 1987
Location: Nigeria (WB)
Position: Agro-Industrial Co-ordinator
Description: Responsible for the
development of rural agro-processing industries in the whole of
Northern Nigeria with a team of five Nigerian graduate engineers on a
World Bank assisted project. The project assisted clients to establish
viable businesses by identifying opportunities, providing feasibility
studies, business plans, plant layouts, equipment specifications and
operator training especially for small and medium sized plants. Some
small-scale, appropriate technology plants were designed and produced
including those for tapioca, sugar, vegetable oil (palm oil, groundnut
and sunflower oil) and grain milling.
Date: 1980 to 1984
Location: UK
Position: Technical Sales Engineer
Description: Responsible for the
sale, installation and operator training of capital equipment for the
vegetable oil, animal feed, flour, grain, pharmaceutical and other
processing industries. Liaison with project engineers, plant designers
and owners was a major component of the work.
Date: 1979 to 1980
Location: UK
Position: General Manager
Description: Responsible for an
engineering company involved in the design, manufacture and
installation of grain handling and processing facilities.
Date: 1974 to 1979
Location: UK
Position: Regional Production Manager
Description: Totally responsible
for the operation of three animal feed plants with a capacity of
100,000 tonnes per annum. Also was responsible for a seed cleaning
plant processing cereal and grass seeds to international standards.
Date: 1971 to 1974
Location: UK
Position: Factory Manager
Description: Responsible for a
plant producing paper sacks, polythene bags and corrugated board
packaging for the animal feed, flour, horticultural and other
industries.
Date: 1966 to 1971
Location: UK
Position: Production Manager
Description: Responsible for an
animal feed mill, promoted from the position of management trainee
after being involved in the design, installation and commissioning of a
new feed mill on a green field site.
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