Experience

WaterAid Canada

• Canada
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • Jul 2018 - Present



Guelph Institute of Development Studies at the University of Guelph

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member Of The Board Of Advisors

  • Jun 2020 - Present



MEDA (Mennonite Economic Development Associates)

• Canada
• International Trade and Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Interim Sr. Lead, Global Programs

  • Jun 2020 - Feb 2021

  Interim management and oversight, helping to align MEDA's global programming with its exciting and ambitious new strategic plan. Interim management and oversight, helping to align MEDA's global programming with its exciting and ambitious new strategic plan.



Independent

• Independent Advisor

  • May 2018 - May 2020

  Organisational Development, Rural Development, Environmental Services, Adaptation Organisational Development, Rural Development, Environmental Services, Adaptation



International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

• Canada
• International Trade and Development
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Regional Director, Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Dec 2012 - Dec 2017

• Regional Director, Eastern and Southern Africa

  • Nov 2010 - Dec 2012



International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

• Canada
• International Trade and Development
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Programme Leader, Programme Manager

  • 1998 - 2010

  I was responsible for the management of applied research programmes on natural resource management and governance in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa for seven years, with annual budgets of CA$10-20 million. I led multi-disciplinary teams of professionals from diverse cultures, funding applied research, and building and supporting research capacity in developing countries. In 2006 I co-designed and staffed the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa programme, a CA$60M action-research programme co-funded with UK DFID, which I oversaw until 2010.



Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Programme

• Programme Officer

  • 1992 - 1998

  As a Rockefeller-funded Agricultural Sciences Fellow, I contributed to the early development of on-farm participatory research and interdisciplinarity at the Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Programme in Nairobi, Kenya. I coordinated an EU-funded project on the biological management of soil fertility in four countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. I conducted extensive survey research, participatory on-farm experimentation and environmental monitoring in Kenya and Zimbabwe. As a Rockefeller-funded Agricultural Sciences Fellow, I contributed to the early development of on-farm participatory research and interdisciplinarity at the Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Programme in Nairobi, Kenya. I coordinated an EU-funded project on the biological management of soil fertility in four countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. I conducted extensive survey research, participatory on-farm experimentation and environmental monitoring in Kenya and Zimbabwe.



CIAT

• Colombia
• Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Researcher, Post-doc, Senior Research Fellow

  • 1983 - 1992

  I undertook my PhD research at CIAT on the geography of cassava cultivation in South America. I made practical contributions to the roll-out of post-harvest cassava processing enterprises and value-chain development in the region. As a Postdoctoral Fellow, I helped to design an exhaustive study of cassava in sub-Saharan Africa, conducted research on land-use change in Central America, and contributed to the development of CIAT’s strategic plan for the 1990s. I undertook my PhD research at CIAT on the geography of cassava cultivation in South America. I made practical contributions to the roll-out of post-harvest cassava processing enterprises and value-chain development in the region. As a Postdoctoral Fellow, I helped to design an exhaustive study of cassava in sub-Saharan Africa, conducted research on land-use change in Central America, and contributed to the development of CIAT’s strategic plan for the 1990s.