Prof. Sir Gordon Conway
Gordon Conway is Professor of International Development in the
Centre for Environmental Policy of the
Imperial College of London and holds five honorary degrees and fellowships. Trained in agricultural ecology, he attended 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 joined Imperial College in 1970 setting up the
Centre for Environmental Technology 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
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and then became representative of the Ford Foundation in New Delhi. Subsequently he became Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Sussex and Chair of the
Institute of Development Studies (IDS). From 1998-2004 he was President of the
Rockefeller Foundation and from 2004- June 2009 Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK
Department for International Development (DFID) and President of the
Royal Geographical Society.
He is the author of
The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for all in the 21st Century. His latest book is available as a free download under the title:
TScience and Innovation for Development