SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Moderator

George Rothschild. Currently working as an independent consultant and member of the independent advisory committees of two DFID's Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy programmes. Former positions held include: Director-General of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI); Director of Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Foundation Director of Australian Bureau of Rural Sciences (BRS); Chief scientific adviser to Ministers of Primary Industries, Foreign Affairs, and Overseas Development of the Australian Federal Government; Chief research scientist and assistant Chief of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Entomology Division (Australia). Government research entomologist Malaysia (UK Overseas Development Administration).