Save the date 20-22 April 2018
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Professor Gordon Conway is Professor of International Development at Imperial College London and Senior Advisor, Malabo Montpellier Panel. Gordon Conway trained in agricultural ecology, attending the universities of Bangor, Cambridge, West Indies (Trinidad) and California (Davis). In the 1960’s he was a pioneer of sustainable agriculture developing integrated pest management programs for the State of Sabah in Malaysia. He set up the Centre for Environmental Technology at Imperial College in 1976. In the 1970s and 1980s he lived and worked extensively in Asia and the Middle East, for the Ford Foundation, World Bank and USAID. He directed the Sustainable Agriculture Programme at IIED and then became representative of the Ford Foundation in New Delhi. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004 and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2007. He was President of Rockefeller Foundation from 1998 – 2004. He was President of the Royal Geographical Society from 2006-2009, and recently awarded the RGS Founder’s Medal – one of two Royal medals awarded. He has authored The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for all in the 21st century and co-authored Science and Innovation for Development (UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (UKCDS). His most recent book One Billion Hungry: Can we Feed the World? was published in October 2012.
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