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| Dr. Gordon Conway |
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Gordon
Conway was elected the twelfth President of The Rockefeller Foundation
in April 1998. He was educated at the Universities of Wales (Bangor),
Cambridge, Trinidad and California (Davis). His discipline is
agricultural ecology. In the early 1960's, working in Sabah,
North Borneo, he became one of the pioneers of integrated pest
management. From 1970 to 1986, he was Professor of Environmental
Technology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology
in London. During this period he lived and worked in many countries
in Asia and the Middle East. He then directed the sustainable
agriculture program of the International Institute for Environment
and Development in London before becoming Representative of the
Ford Foundation in New Delhi from 1988 to 1992. Prior to joining
The Rockefeller Foundation, he was Vice-Chancellor of the University
of Sussex and Chair of the Institute for Development Studies.
He has authored Unwelcome Harvest: agriculture and pollution
(Earthscan, Island Press), recently The Doubly Green Revolution:
Food for all in the 21st century (Penguin and University Press,
Cornell); Islamophobia: a challenge for us all (The Runnymede
Trust). |
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