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Personal Data
| Name: |
Richard James Thomas |
| Date of Birth: |
27 January 1952 |
| Place of Birth: |
Neath, Wales, U.K. |
| Nationality: |
British |
| Current Address: |
ICARDA, P.O. Box 5466, Aleppo,
Syria |
| Telephone: |
963-21-2213433 (office)
or 2642886 (home) |
| Fax: |
963-21-2213490 or 5744622 |
| Email: |
rthomas@scs-net.org
or r.thomas@cgiar.org |
Employment:
|
2001 to present
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International Center for Agricultural
Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo, Syria
Director of Natural Resources Management Program |
|
1989 - 2001
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Centro Internacional
de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Cali, Colombia |
|
1998 - 2001
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Project Manager for soil
management |
|
1996 -1998
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Head of the Soils and Plant
Nutrition Unit |
| 1994 -1996 |
Leader of Scientific Resources
Group for Production Systems and Soils Management |
| 1994 |
Acting leader of Tropical
Lowlands Program |
| 1994 - 2001 |
Co-convenor for the CGIAR's
Systemwide Program on Soil, Water and Nutrient Management |
| 1993 - 2001 |
Secretary/convenor of the
Managing Acid Soils Consortium |
| 1993 -1996 |
Senior Scientist -Tropical
Lowlands Program |
| 1992 -1993 |
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Savannas Program |
| 1989 -1992 |
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Pasture Program |
| 1983 -1989 |
Hill Farming Research Organization,
Penicuik, Scotland, U.K. (later the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute).
Senior Scientific Officer
Staff liaison officer |
| 1983 |
Consultant for the British
Council, CNPq-British Council Convenium at EMBRAPA-CNPAB, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. |
| 1981 -1983 |
Department of Biological Sciences,
University of Dundee, Scotland, U.K.
Senior Research Assistant |
| 1979 -1981 |
Department of Agronomy, University
of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Research Associate |
| 1977 -1979 |
Institute of Plant Physiology,
University of Bern, Switzerland.
Research Assistant |
| 1976 -1977 |
Department of Botany and Microbiology,
University College of Swansea, Wales, U.K.
Research Assistant |
Committee Service:
|
2003-present
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ICARDA's
and the CGIAR's representative on the Facilitation Committee of
the UNCCD-Global Mechanism |
|
1999-present
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Member
of the Integrated Natural Resource Management Task Force for the
CGIAR |
|
2001-present
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Member
of the senior management committee of ICARDA |
|
2001-present
|
Member
of the Computer Services Committee of ICARDA |
| 1998-present |
Member
of the CGIAR Inter-Center Working Group on Global Climate Change
(ICARDA's representative since 2001; CIAT's representative 1998-2001) |
| 1995-2001 |
CIAT's
Outstanding Research Publication Award committee |
| 1994 |
CIAT's
Program and Operations committee (while acting program leader May-December)
|
| 1994
1997 |
CIAT's
Scientific Resources committee |
| 1994-1996 |
CIAT's
task force on project prioritization |
| 1990
1993 |
CIAT's
working group on plant and soil relations |
| 1990
1992 |
CIAT's
savanna working group |
| 1989
1997 |
CIAT's
research services coordinating committee |
| 1980
1981 |
Dept.
of Agronomy, Univ. of Wisconsin Madison. Committee for international
agriculture |
Other experience:
| 1992-present |
Supervisor
of 5 post doc, 6 pre doc students and 7 pre graduate students at
CIAT and ICARDA |
| 1991-2001 |
Participant
member of Tropical Soil Biology & Fertility Programme. (CIAT's
representative) |
| 1987 |
External
examiner of a Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Univ.
of Dundee |
| 1985
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Invited
participant at the Boyne Highlands conference on crop productivity
research imperatives revisited, Univ. of Michigan |
| 1980-1983 |
Reviewer
for U.S.D.A. competitive grants program, nitrogen fixation section |
Education:
| 1973
-1976 |
University
College of Wales, Swansea
Ph.D. in microbial metabolism. Thesis entitled "Kinetics of
nitrate assimilation by Chlorella" |
| 1970
- 1973 |
University
College of Wales, Swansea
B.Sc. (Second class, first division) Joint Honours Botany and Microbiology
|
| 1963
- 1970 |
Neath
Boys' Grammar School, Neath, Wales
3 G.C.E. "A" levels (Botany with distinction in Special
Paper, Zoology, Chemistry)
10 G.C.E. "O" levels (French, English Language, English
Literature, History, Chemistry, Physics, Botany, Biology, Human
Biology, Mathematics) |
Membership in professional societies:
| 1992
present |
Member
of the International Society of Soil Science |
| 1989-present |
Member
of the British Grassland Society |
| 1973
1977 |
Member
of the Institute of Biology (UK) |
Awards:
| 1993 |
Outstanding
research publication award, Centro Internacional de Agricultura
Tropical for the publication in Grass and Forage Science 47, 133-142
(1992) |
| 2001 |
Soils
project in CIAT won the CGIAR Chairman's Science Award for "Outstanding
partnerships" when I was the project manager |
Invited reviewer for:
| Annals of
Botany, New Phytologist, Journal of Experimental Botany, Phytochemistry,
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Biology and Fertility of Soils, Tropical
Agriculture, Grass and Forage Science and Plant and Soil. |
| Associate
editor for "Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems" since
2001. |
Languages
English (native), Spanish (conversational and reading), German, French,
Portuguese (scientific reading)
Referees:
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Dr. J. Voss, Director General,
CIAT, AA6713, Cali, Colombia. FAX: (57)-2-445-0073. E-mail: j.voss@cgiar.org |
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Dr. Jacqueline A. Ashby, CIAT,
AA6713, Cali, Colombia. FAX: (57)-2-445-0073. E-mail: j.ashby@cgiar.org |
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Dr. R. Havener, Former Chairman
Board of Trustees, ICARDA, 2859, Stadium Drive, Solvany, California
93463, USA. FAX: (1)-805-688-4574. E-mail: r.havener@cgiar.org |
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Professor J.I. Sprent, Dept.
of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Dundee, Scotland, UK. DD1 4HN.
E-mail: J.I.Sprent@dundee.ac.uk. FAX (44)-1382-322318. |
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Professor T.J. Maxwell, Former
Director, Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler,
Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K. E-mail: TJMaxwell@mluri.sari.ac.uk. FAX:
(44)-1224-311556. |
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