Key People
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Office Bearers
DIRECTORS Assc. Professor John Leake, orcid.org/0000-0002-1140-8170 A Founder of IID and a Director Mr Leake has some 30 years experience as an international development specialist gained in over 30 countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He has undertaken over 100 consulting assignments, 50+ as an inter-disciplinary team leader in subject areas related to rural development and natural resource management and rehabilitation. He has experience with several the Australian government ministries, state governments, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, several UN Agencies and private clients. Mr Leake has been a director and principal of two of Australia's largest consulting firms involved in rural development and natural resource management. He has maintained a lifelong interest in research and |
Professor Lindsay J Falvey
A Founder of IID, a Director and Vice President of the IID Development Fund.
Prof Falvey is a leading international agricultural authority with an interest in ethics and religion. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences, he has served on more than 100 international missions to Asia, Africa and the Middle East on behalf of the Australian Government, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations and other organizations, has led 35 of those teams, and has been recognized for his outstanding work with awards from the governments of Thailand and Australia, including the Australian Centenary Medal for his contribution to the nation. He was appointed as Chair of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) advisory board in 2015, and was instrumental in developing the World Development Prize with NIRAS in 2015, see http://www.worldprize.life
Formerly managing director of one of Australia’s largest international environmental consulting firm and then Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture at the University of Melbourne, he is a professor of Agriculture at the University of Melbourne and the author of ten books and more than 100 articles. He has headed the Institute of Asian Languages and Societies, is on the international advisory board for the Asian Agri-History Foundation in India and the board of the National Thai Studies Centre at the Australian National University, and is a Director of the Global Ethics and Religion Forum. Prof Falvey has personally conducted some 90 international assignments for the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, United Nations, Australia, Germany and The Netherlands. He is at present a Director of Hassad Australia Pty Limited, a Qatar company investing for food security.
A Founder of IID, a Director and Vice President of the IID Development Fund.
Prof Falvey is a leading international agricultural authority with an interest in ethics and religion. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences, he has served on more than 100 international missions to Asia, Africa and the Middle East on behalf of the Australian Government, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations and other organizations, has led 35 of those teams, and has been recognized for his outstanding work with awards from the governments of Thailand and Australia, including the Australian Centenary Medal for his contribution to the nation. He was appointed as Chair of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) advisory board in 2015, and was instrumental in developing the World Development Prize with NIRAS in 2015, see http://www.worldprize.life
Formerly managing director of one of Australia’s largest international environmental consulting firm and then Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture at the University of Melbourne, he is a professor of Agriculture at the University of Melbourne and the author of ten books and more than 100 articles. He has headed the Institute of Asian Languages and Societies, is on the international advisory board for the Asian Agri-History Foundation in India and the board of the National Thai Studies Centre at the Australian National University, and is a Director of the Global Ethics and Religion Forum. Prof Falvey has personally conducted some 90 international assignments for the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, United Nations, Australia, Germany and The Netherlands. He is at present a Director of Hassad Australia Pty Limited, a Qatar company investing for food security.
Mr David J King A Director resident in the Philippines
Mr King, an agricultural engineer, has worked for more than twenty years as an international development professional throughout South East Asia, and the Pacific. He has worked as a consultant to a range of multinational and bilateral development assistance organisations as well as with the private sector. An experienced leader of multidisciplinary teams and a project design specialist he has focused on community based projects in rural water supply, environmental health, rural development and agriculture. In particular he views the long term sustainability of many development projects requires the strengthening of linkages between communities, government and private sector partners. Since 1991 he is based in Manila, Philippines and he is responsible for the development of GEA Timber Ventures.
Dr Phillips Young, A Former Director (retired 2015) of IID, .
Dr Phillips Young has more than 30 years experience in designing, appraising, implementing and evaluating internationally financed agriculture and rural development projects in Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands. He has held senior staff positions in the Asian Development Bank (ADB), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) - achieving the position of UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative for Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei.
A veterinarian by training, Mr Young served six years at the ADB as a Senior Livestock Specialist and 8 years in Papua New Guinea as District and Regional Veterinary Officer and later Chief Livestock Development Officer, managing World Bank financed livestock development projects on behalf of the Government of PNG. He has over 30 years of experience in agriculture and rural development with a view to alleviating poverty in numerous countries in Asia, the Pacific and Africa with Veterinary Medicine and animal production as a technical specialisation. Mr Young has been leading multi-disciplinary teams for the design, appraisal and implementation of international development projects funded by AusAID, ADB, The World Bank, UNOPS, IFAD, FAO and other donor agencies.
Dr Laurie Zivetz
Dr Zivetz is a social scientist specialising in community-based participatory research, monitoring and evaluation. She has worked extensively with international and grassroots NGOs in over two dozen countries, including founding two NGOs in Nepal in the 1980s and leading Care International offices in Vietnam, the Philippines and the CIS in the 1990s. Currently a consultant based in Washington, D.C., Dr. Zivetz carries out evaluations and advises on programming to a range of agencies involved in public health, education, gender and community development. She is presently Executive Advisor for Impact for Camfed UK, a pioneering NGO in the area of girls' education and young women's empowerment in Africa. Dr. Zivetz holds an MPH from UCLA and a PhD in Social Economics from Union Graduate School.
Mr King, an agricultural engineer, has worked for more than twenty years as an international development professional throughout South East Asia, and the Pacific. He has worked as a consultant to a range of multinational and bilateral development assistance organisations as well as with the private sector. An experienced leader of multidisciplinary teams and a project design specialist he has focused on community based projects in rural water supply, environmental health, rural development and agriculture. In particular he views the long term sustainability of many development projects requires the strengthening of linkages between communities, government and private sector partners. Since 1991 he is based in Manila, Philippines and he is responsible for the development of GEA Timber Ventures.
Dr Phillips Young, A Former Director (retired 2015) of IID, .
Dr Phillips Young has more than 30 years experience in designing, appraising, implementing and evaluating internationally financed agriculture and rural development projects in Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands. He has held senior staff positions in the Asian Development Bank (ADB), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) - achieving the position of UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative for Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei.
A veterinarian by training, Mr Young served six years at the ADB as a Senior Livestock Specialist and 8 years in Papua New Guinea as District and Regional Veterinary Officer and later Chief Livestock Development Officer, managing World Bank financed livestock development projects on behalf of the Government of PNG. He has over 30 years of experience in agriculture and rural development with a view to alleviating poverty in numerous countries in Asia, the Pacific and Africa with Veterinary Medicine and animal production as a technical specialisation. Mr Young has been leading multi-disciplinary teams for the design, appraisal and implementation of international development projects funded by AusAID, ADB, The World Bank, UNOPS, IFAD, FAO and other donor agencies.
Dr Laurie Zivetz
Dr Zivetz is a social scientist specialising in community-based participatory research, monitoring and evaluation. She has worked extensively with international and grassroots NGOs in over two dozen countries, including founding two NGOs in Nepal in the 1980s and leading Care International offices in Vietnam, the Philippines and the CIS in the 1990s. Currently a consultant based in Washington, D.C., Dr. Zivetz carries out evaluations and advises on programming to a range of agencies involved in public health, education, gender and community development. She is presently Executive Advisor for Impact for Camfed UK, a pioneering NGO in the area of girls' education and young women's empowerment in Africa. Dr. Zivetz holds an MPH from UCLA and a PhD in Social Economics from Union Graduate School.
Company Accountant
Mr John Gamble
John Gamble is a corporate strategist, consulting to a wide range of business sectors including information technology, finance, tourism, transport, construction, aviation and pastoral industries. His expertise includes tax, business finance and capital raising, corporate advisory and planning and corporate reconstruction. John has established and integrated multiple accounting practices in Darwin, Alice Springs, Katherine and Adelaide. The result is the accounting practice now known as Horwath SA & NT. John was a Director of the Airnorth group of companies until its sale in 2015, along with a wide range of investment entities and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia.
Company Auditor
Mr Paul Blackmore
Paul is a practising Chartered Accountant and Auditor with a strong interest in agriculture and biodiversity conservation. He was a Director of Earth Sanctuaries Limited an innovative listed biodiversity conservation trust.
Members
Mr Maung Aung
Maung Aung is an engineer and has over 10 years of experience in international development projects in the Pacific, Asia, and Southeast Asia. He is a project management specialist and has undertaken assignments as Project Engineer while working in Asian Development Bank. He also has over 22 years of experience holding various professional positions in Myanmar Shipyard Enterprise. He is currently working as Consultant cum Associate Director for Socio-Economic Consultants Co., Ltd., Bangkok. He is involved in bilateral joint strategic economic partnership development projects: Thailand-Vietnam Joint Strategic Economic Partnership, Thailand-Lao Joint Strategic Economic Partnership, and Thailand-Myanmar Industrial Estates Development.
Professor Richard Bawden
Distinguished Professor of International Development at Michigan State University
Professor Bawden is an acknowledged world leader in the development and use of participatory processes in organisational change. He has provided input to staff development at the Asian Development Bank and is working on a series of workshops for the World Bank destined for each of its regional offices worldwide.
Mr Haydn Betts
Haydn Betts is a professional engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia. He has been involved in water resources engineering for over 40 years, and during the last 18 years, has worked as a risk scientist, undertaking risk assessment and public safety studies. He has lead teams for policy development for land use planning of floodplains, flood emergency planning, designed flood mitigation and construction programs for four major cities and has also been involved in consideration of the impacts of climate change on land use and development.
He has developed community consultation programs and is currently researching risk communication processes and hydro-informatics. He was the Australian Team Leader for the implementation of the successful Yangtze River Flood Control and Management Project in Wuhan, China and designed its Decision Support System. His work in China has included the development of policy initiatives, river basin management tools and socio-economic impact assessment procedures for flooding.
Ms Simone Falvey-Behr
Simone Falvey-Behr is a cultural anthropologist with more than 30 years experience in intercultural management, including senior professional management of international programs for all Eastern and Western Europe including Turkey and the Caucasus. Her diverse experience spans more than 50 missions in inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue, planning, promotion of understanding, appreciation of the precursors of cultural conflict, democratic citizenship education programs for emerging economics, and practical reconciliation processes applicable to specific development contexts. She is the inaugural Project Manager of the pan-European project on Intercultural Dialogue and Conflict Prevention, and is a member of the International Board of the Global Ethics and Religion Forum USA, of the Europe of Cultures Forum Belgium, of the European Cultural Centre Athens, of the Board for the Preparation of the European Year for Democratic Citizenship, and of Mentor Media Education Barcelona.
Mr Ken Granger
Ken Granger has worked in the field of applied geography since 1961,most of that time with a focus on public or community safety. After spending two years with CSIRO and eight years working on forest resource assessment surveys in PNG, he worked for 20 years as a strategic intelligence analyst and research manager in the Department of Defence in Canberra. He moved to Queensland in 1990 to take up a position as Scientific Adviser to the Queensland Department of Emergency Services, developing geographic information applications for the police and all of the emergency services.
From mid-1996 to mid-2000 he worked as a contract consultant to the AGSO (now Geoscience Australia), leading an internationally acclaimed program of research aimed at developing the science and technology to better understand community risk posed by a wide range of natural hazards. He has taken a leading role in numerous emergency or disaster risk management studies in most Australian states, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and Asia. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Spatial Sciences Institute and was awarded the J P Thomson Medal by the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland in 2003 for his career contributions to geography.
Mr Wayne Haslam
A Founder of IID
Mr Wayne Haslam is an engineer with formal qualifications in planning and human resource management. He has over 30 years experience in international development projects in the Pacific, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. He lived and worked on projects in South East Asia for a 10 year period. He is a project management specialist and has undertaken assignments for the major international agencies including UN Agencies, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank and the Australian Agency for International Development. He has been a Director of a major consulting group in Australia and is currently the Director of a number of major international projects. Mr Waslam is the Chairman of Environmental Risk Science and Audit (ERSA) Pty Ltd , a company that evolved from the IID risk science group to focus on this work in Australia.
Dr Michael Heppell
A founder of IID
Dr Heppell is an anthropologist and a chartered accountant. He has some 28 years experience as an institutional development specialist in Australia, Asia and Papua Nuigini. Dr. Heppellhas been a director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Housing Panel, Project Director of the Victorian Public Service Board and has undertaken numerous assignments as a social anthropologist. He has extensive recent experience with ADB in the strategic planning. He has published books from his anthropological work including Iban art : sexual selection and severed heads : weaving, sculpture, tattooing and other arts of the Iban of Borneo
Mr Song Jisheng
Mr Song Jisheng, originally head of the Foreign Relations Department of the Jinan Agricultural University in Shandong, China's oldest agricultural university, now operates his own consultancy business providing nutrition advice and micro-feed ingredients to intensive piggeries in Eastern China through his own network of agents. China has between 45 and 55 per cent of the world's pigs, depending on the relative position of the pig population cycle in the major producing countries.
Following a first degree in Arts, Mr Song has undertaken extensive postgraduate training in animal nutrition and feed management in USA over a two-year period. Mr Song has collaborated with Institute members on rural development consultancies for the World Bank and IFAD in Shandong province and for private clients in aquaculture and education.
Tim Kirby
Tim Kirby’s career interest in audit has spanned financial audit (including for a range of primary sector clients), environmental and compliance audit (including the resources sector), general internal audit (including for environment protection and conservation agencies) and NRM performance audit (including of regional catchment management authorities). Tim maintains professional certifications in these fields.
Having lived and worked in New Zealand, Japan, Solomon Islands and Australia, Tim has experience of working in diverse cultures and with the issues involved in delivering projects in regional and remote areas. These projects include a World Bank project expanding the Solomon Island school system across the country, evaluation of recovery efforts following Tropical Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, assessment of the effectiveness of a cloud-seeding project over conservation areas in Australia’s Snowy Mountains, establishing programs to review the actions and governance of regional natural resource authorities and water authorities in Australia.
Ms Anja Latacz
Anja (Anya) is a development consultant/sector planner with some 20 years of work experience across various sectors, with includes regional development, agriculture & fisheries, infrastructure planning, private sector development, as well as health sector support through Asia and the Pacific. She worked in business development and project management for Asia with donor agencies and private consulting firms whilst based in SE Asia (13 years), Europe and in Australia funded by the ADB, WB, the EC, the UN, AusAID, BTC, KfW, and other bilateral donor agencies. Besides other international project work, she worked as a Team Leader in the 2004 Post-Tsunami reconstruction activities in Aceh/Indonesia in a UNDP support project assisting the Indonesian Reconstruction Agency (BRR), and has six years in Indonesia in total. She holds a Masters of Economics (Heidelberg) and a Post-Master’s Certificate in Development Policies/Sector Planning (Berlin).
Dr Marion Leiba
Dr Leiba is a disaster risk scientist with more than 20 years experience in geohazards research in Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Recent work includes landslide and earthquake risk assessments in various parts of Australia, working for Geoscience Australia (Australian Government), and private consulting firms. She is also actively involved with science communication, in which she has had over 20 years experience with organisations such as Emergency Management Australia, Geoscience Australia, Mt Stromlo Observatory, CSIRO, and the Australian Science Festival.
Associate Professor Robert Macadam
Professor Macadam has a background in agricultural extension and is a member of the faculty of Agriculture and Rural Development at the University of Western Sydney where he has taken a major role in the evolution of the Centre for Systemic Development. He has experience with the facilitation of participatory planning in Australia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
Mr Bruce McKenzie
Bruce McKenzie is an acknowledged leading practitioner of participatory planning processors using systems theory. He has been a member and officer on a number of Peak community and government organisations including President Australian Council of Social Services, and Deputy Chairman Murray Darling Basin Commission Community Advisory Committee.
In recent years he has conducted extensive research and practice into the development of learning communities within corporations, government departments and regional townships, focusing particularly on the role of learning, tutoring, collaboration and risk management competencies in a systemic approach to change management for sustainability. Mr McKenzie has wide experience in community development in Australia and internationally.
Dr Merle R Menegay
Dr Menegay is an agricultural marketing systems specialist with over 30 years experience within the Asian region. As a consultant, he has completed short and long term assignments with a wide range of consulting firms and international agencies, such as the World Bank, ADB, and USAID. He has also held academic research posts with Clark University (Associate Professor), Michigan State University, University of Tennessee, and Kasetsart University (Thailand) as well as established the Department of Agricultural Economics at the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center in Taiwan.
His long term experiences were in the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and India (as a Peace Corps Volunteer). The applications of participatory learning techniques within agribusiness/ marketing projects, rapid marketing appraisal techniques, agricultural marketing information systems, and horticultural promotion strategies are his primary areas of professional interest. He is currently based in Adelaide, Australia.
Mr Daniel Miller
Mr Miller is a specialist in rangeland ecology related to large ruminants in the Himalayan and Mongolian uplands. Trained as a rangeland ecologist and animal husbandry specialist, he has an affinity for people who make their living taking care of animals. He has spent most of his adult life working on agricultural development and biodiversity conservation projects with nomads in the Himalaya, Tibetan Plateau, Mongolia and Central Asia and has used photography to document his work and journeys. He has published several works on the Mongolian uplands. Miller currently works for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in New Delhi, India. His work involves designing and managing agriculture, education and rural development projects.
Dr Ben Robinson
Dr Robinson developed a specialty in the mineral nutrition of horticulture plants during a long career with the South Australian Department of Agriculture. He has extensive experience with grapes, citrus and other fruits, vegetables and ornamental crops. worked domestically and overseas providing horticulture input into research management and irrigation projects. Using his long experience with a range of horticulture crops he provided clients with high level horticultural and viticulture management advise
Mr John Shepherd
John Shepherd has accumulated extensive experience in water resource management, and executive management of institutional and policy reform programs over the past 35 years. Besides high ranking positions in Australia, he has worked as a consultant to the World Bank, advising on national and transboundary water resources management issues in Eastern and Southern Africa. His experience in water resources management includes river basins and groundwater systems ranging in scale from small local systems with intensive community involvement, up to the Nile, Zambezi and Murray-Darling River Basins, three of the world’s largest and most complex transboundary basins. He is recognized as a leading consultant in national and transboundary water resources management.
Dr Peter Scholefield
Dr Scholefield is a specialist horticulturist with wide experience in tropical and temperate areas of Australia and overseas. He has the capacity to integrate the many technical facets of horticultural production into integrated packages. He has worked in research, extension and private consulting roles on a wide range of crops including grapes, avocados, nut crops, mangos and other tropical fruits. More Information can be found at www.srhs.com.au.
Dr Graham Shorten
Dr Shorten has worked for over 35 years in natural hazard risk assessment, climate change issues, geotechnical engineering and engineering geology in Australasia, Pacific Island Countries, Southeast Asia, and Europe. During that time he has been engaged as a private consultant as well as being employed in international, academic, and public organisations including the Commonwealth Secretariat, CSIRO, SOPAC, QUT, Mineral Resources Department of Fiji (MRD), and the Queensland Departments of Emergency Services and Mines. Graham has spent much of that time as a scientific-engineering adviser on both applied and research projects in natural hazard and risk, funded by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank, and by development-aid organisations including AusAID, USAID, UKDFID, NZAID, and EU. He has managed projects ranging in scope from community-based disaster risk management to modelling for national and regional catastrophe insurance. In the past five years he has been involved in the design and implementation of natural hazard risk management projects dealing with cyclone, flood, storm surge, earthquake, tsunami, landslide, bush fire, and coastal erosion in Bulgaria, Poland, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Tonga and Tuvalu.
Mr John Gamble
John Gamble is a corporate strategist, consulting to a wide range of business sectors including information technology, finance, tourism, transport, construction, aviation and pastoral industries. His expertise includes tax, business finance and capital raising, corporate advisory and planning and corporate reconstruction. John has established and integrated multiple accounting practices in Darwin, Alice Springs, Katherine and Adelaide. The result is the accounting practice now known as Horwath SA & NT. John was a Director of the Airnorth group of companies until its sale in 2015, along with a wide range of investment entities and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia.
Company Auditor
Mr Paul Blackmore
Paul is a practising Chartered Accountant and Auditor with a strong interest in agriculture and biodiversity conservation. He was a Director of Earth Sanctuaries Limited an innovative listed biodiversity conservation trust.
Members
Mr Maung Aung
Maung Aung is an engineer and has over 10 years of experience in international development projects in the Pacific, Asia, and Southeast Asia. He is a project management specialist and has undertaken assignments as Project Engineer while working in Asian Development Bank. He also has over 22 years of experience holding various professional positions in Myanmar Shipyard Enterprise. He is currently working as Consultant cum Associate Director for Socio-Economic Consultants Co., Ltd., Bangkok. He is involved in bilateral joint strategic economic partnership development projects: Thailand-Vietnam Joint Strategic Economic Partnership, Thailand-Lao Joint Strategic Economic Partnership, and Thailand-Myanmar Industrial Estates Development.
Professor Richard Bawden
Distinguished Professor of International Development at Michigan State University
Professor Bawden is an acknowledged world leader in the development and use of participatory processes in organisational change. He has provided input to staff development at the Asian Development Bank and is working on a series of workshops for the World Bank destined for each of its regional offices worldwide.
Mr Haydn Betts
Haydn Betts is a professional engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia. He has been involved in water resources engineering for over 40 years, and during the last 18 years, has worked as a risk scientist, undertaking risk assessment and public safety studies. He has lead teams for policy development for land use planning of floodplains, flood emergency planning, designed flood mitigation and construction programs for four major cities and has also been involved in consideration of the impacts of climate change on land use and development.
He has developed community consultation programs and is currently researching risk communication processes and hydro-informatics. He was the Australian Team Leader for the implementation of the successful Yangtze River Flood Control and Management Project in Wuhan, China and designed its Decision Support System. His work in China has included the development of policy initiatives, river basin management tools and socio-economic impact assessment procedures for flooding.
Ms Simone Falvey-Behr
Simone Falvey-Behr is a cultural anthropologist with more than 30 years experience in intercultural management, including senior professional management of international programs for all Eastern and Western Europe including Turkey and the Caucasus. Her diverse experience spans more than 50 missions in inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue, planning, promotion of understanding, appreciation of the precursors of cultural conflict, democratic citizenship education programs for emerging economics, and practical reconciliation processes applicable to specific development contexts. She is the inaugural Project Manager of the pan-European project on Intercultural Dialogue and Conflict Prevention, and is a member of the International Board of the Global Ethics and Religion Forum USA, of the Europe of Cultures Forum Belgium, of the European Cultural Centre Athens, of the Board for the Preparation of the European Year for Democratic Citizenship, and of Mentor Media Education Barcelona.
Mr Ken Granger
Ken Granger has worked in the field of applied geography since 1961,most of that time with a focus on public or community safety. After spending two years with CSIRO and eight years working on forest resource assessment surveys in PNG, he worked for 20 years as a strategic intelligence analyst and research manager in the Department of Defence in Canberra. He moved to Queensland in 1990 to take up a position as Scientific Adviser to the Queensland Department of Emergency Services, developing geographic information applications for the police and all of the emergency services.
From mid-1996 to mid-2000 he worked as a contract consultant to the AGSO (now Geoscience Australia), leading an internationally acclaimed program of research aimed at developing the science and technology to better understand community risk posed by a wide range of natural hazards. He has taken a leading role in numerous emergency or disaster risk management studies in most Australian states, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and Asia. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Spatial Sciences Institute and was awarded the J P Thomson Medal by the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland in 2003 for his career contributions to geography.
Mr Wayne Haslam
A Founder of IID
Mr Wayne Haslam is an engineer with formal qualifications in planning and human resource management. He has over 30 years experience in international development projects in the Pacific, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. He lived and worked on projects in South East Asia for a 10 year period. He is a project management specialist and has undertaken assignments for the major international agencies including UN Agencies, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank and the Australian Agency for International Development. He has been a Director of a major consulting group in Australia and is currently the Director of a number of major international projects. Mr Waslam is the Chairman of Environmental Risk Science and Audit (ERSA) Pty Ltd , a company that evolved from the IID risk science group to focus on this work in Australia.
Dr Michael Heppell
A founder of IID
Dr Heppell is an anthropologist and a chartered accountant. He has some 28 years experience as an institutional development specialist in Australia, Asia and Papua Nuigini. Dr. Heppellhas been a director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Housing Panel, Project Director of the Victorian Public Service Board and has undertaken numerous assignments as a social anthropologist. He has extensive recent experience with ADB in the strategic planning. He has published books from his anthropological work including Iban art : sexual selection and severed heads : weaving, sculpture, tattooing and other arts of the Iban of Borneo
Mr Song Jisheng
Mr Song Jisheng, originally head of the Foreign Relations Department of the Jinan Agricultural University in Shandong, China's oldest agricultural university, now operates his own consultancy business providing nutrition advice and micro-feed ingredients to intensive piggeries in Eastern China through his own network of agents. China has between 45 and 55 per cent of the world's pigs, depending on the relative position of the pig population cycle in the major producing countries.
Following a first degree in Arts, Mr Song has undertaken extensive postgraduate training in animal nutrition and feed management in USA over a two-year period. Mr Song has collaborated with Institute members on rural development consultancies for the World Bank and IFAD in Shandong province and for private clients in aquaculture and education.
Tim Kirby
Tim Kirby’s career interest in audit has spanned financial audit (including for a range of primary sector clients), environmental and compliance audit (including the resources sector), general internal audit (including for environment protection and conservation agencies) and NRM performance audit (including of regional catchment management authorities). Tim maintains professional certifications in these fields.
Having lived and worked in New Zealand, Japan, Solomon Islands and Australia, Tim has experience of working in diverse cultures and with the issues involved in delivering projects in regional and remote areas. These projects include a World Bank project expanding the Solomon Island school system across the country, evaluation of recovery efforts following Tropical Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, assessment of the effectiveness of a cloud-seeding project over conservation areas in Australia’s Snowy Mountains, establishing programs to review the actions and governance of regional natural resource authorities and water authorities in Australia.
Ms Anja Latacz
Anja (Anya) is a development consultant/sector planner with some 20 years of work experience across various sectors, with includes regional development, agriculture & fisheries, infrastructure planning, private sector development, as well as health sector support through Asia and the Pacific. She worked in business development and project management for Asia with donor agencies and private consulting firms whilst based in SE Asia (13 years), Europe and in Australia funded by the ADB, WB, the EC, the UN, AusAID, BTC, KfW, and other bilateral donor agencies. Besides other international project work, she worked as a Team Leader in the 2004 Post-Tsunami reconstruction activities in Aceh/Indonesia in a UNDP support project assisting the Indonesian Reconstruction Agency (BRR), and has six years in Indonesia in total. She holds a Masters of Economics (Heidelberg) and a Post-Master’s Certificate in Development Policies/Sector Planning (Berlin).
Dr Marion Leiba
Dr Leiba is a disaster risk scientist with more than 20 years experience in geohazards research in Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Recent work includes landslide and earthquake risk assessments in various parts of Australia, working for Geoscience Australia (Australian Government), and private consulting firms. She is also actively involved with science communication, in which she has had over 20 years experience with organisations such as Emergency Management Australia, Geoscience Australia, Mt Stromlo Observatory, CSIRO, and the Australian Science Festival.
Associate Professor Robert Macadam
Professor Macadam has a background in agricultural extension and is a member of the faculty of Agriculture and Rural Development at the University of Western Sydney where he has taken a major role in the evolution of the Centre for Systemic Development. He has experience with the facilitation of participatory planning in Australia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
Mr Bruce McKenzie
Bruce McKenzie is an acknowledged leading practitioner of participatory planning processors using systems theory. He has been a member and officer on a number of Peak community and government organisations including President Australian Council of Social Services, and Deputy Chairman Murray Darling Basin Commission Community Advisory Committee.
In recent years he has conducted extensive research and practice into the development of learning communities within corporations, government departments and regional townships, focusing particularly on the role of learning, tutoring, collaboration and risk management competencies in a systemic approach to change management for sustainability. Mr McKenzie has wide experience in community development in Australia and internationally.
Dr Merle R Menegay
Dr Menegay is an agricultural marketing systems specialist with over 30 years experience within the Asian region. As a consultant, he has completed short and long term assignments with a wide range of consulting firms and international agencies, such as the World Bank, ADB, and USAID. He has also held academic research posts with Clark University (Associate Professor), Michigan State University, University of Tennessee, and Kasetsart University (Thailand) as well as established the Department of Agricultural Economics at the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center in Taiwan.
His long term experiences were in the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and India (as a Peace Corps Volunteer). The applications of participatory learning techniques within agribusiness/ marketing projects, rapid marketing appraisal techniques, agricultural marketing information systems, and horticultural promotion strategies are his primary areas of professional interest. He is currently based in Adelaide, Australia.
Mr Daniel Miller
Mr Miller is a specialist in rangeland ecology related to large ruminants in the Himalayan and Mongolian uplands. Trained as a rangeland ecologist and animal husbandry specialist, he has an affinity for people who make their living taking care of animals. He has spent most of his adult life working on agricultural development and biodiversity conservation projects with nomads in the Himalaya, Tibetan Plateau, Mongolia and Central Asia and has used photography to document his work and journeys. He has published several works on the Mongolian uplands. Miller currently works for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in New Delhi, India. His work involves designing and managing agriculture, education and rural development projects.
Dr Ben Robinson
Dr Robinson developed a specialty in the mineral nutrition of horticulture plants during a long career with the South Australian Department of Agriculture. He has extensive experience with grapes, citrus and other fruits, vegetables and ornamental crops. worked domestically and overseas providing horticulture input into research management and irrigation projects. Using his long experience with a range of horticulture crops he provided clients with high level horticultural and viticulture management advise
Mr John Shepherd
John Shepherd has accumulated extensive experience in water resource management, and executive management of institutional and policy reform programs over the past 35 years. Besides high ranking positions in Australia, he has worked as a consultant to the World Bank, advising on national and transboundary water resources management issues in Eastern and Southern Africa. His experience in water resources management includes river basins and groundwater systems ranging in scale from small local systems with intensive community involvement, up to the Nile, Zambezi and Murray-Darling River Basins, three of the world’s largest and most complex transboundary basins. He is recognized as a leading consultant in national and transboundary water resources management.
Dr Peter Scholefield
Dr Scholefield is a specialist horticulturist with wide experience in tropical and temperate areas of Australia and overseas. He has the capacity to integrate the many technical facets of horticultural production into integrated packages. He has worked in research, extension and private consulting roles on a wide range of crops including grapes, avocados, nut crops, mangos and other tropical fruits. More Information can be found at www.srhs.com.au.
Dr Graham Shorten
Dr Shorten has worked for over 35 years in natural hazard risk assessment, climate change issues, geotechnical engineering and engineering geology in Australasia, Pacific Island Countries, Southeast Asia, and Europe. During that time he has been engaged as a private consultant as well as being employed in international, academic, and public organisations including the Commonwealth Secretariat, CSIRO, SOPAC, QUT, Mineral Resources Department of Fiji (MRD), and the Queensland Departments of Emergency Services and Mines. Graham has spent much of that time as a scientific-engineering adviser on both applied and research projects in natural hazard and risk, funded by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank, and by development-aid organisations including AusAID, USAID, UKDFID, NZAID, and EU. He has managed projects ranging in scope from community-based disaster risk management to modelling for national and regional catastrophe insurance. In the past five years he has been involved in the design and implementation of natural hazard risk management projects dealing with cyclone, flood, storm surge, earthquake, tsunami, landslide, bush fire, and coastal erosion in Bulgaria, Poland, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Tonga and Tuvalu.
Dr. Victor Squires
Dr Victor Squires is an Australian, a former Dean of the Faculty of Natural Resources at Adelaide University and the Foundation Director of the National Key Centre for Dryland Agriculture and Land Use Systems. He is an Adjunct Professor in the University of Arizona, USA. He is an internationally well known environment expert who has conducted many projects in multiple sectors of environment protection, natural resource and biodiversity conservation, land degradation and desertification control.
Dr. Squires has worked in many developing countries, including China, Mongolia, Central Asia, Vietnam, Rwanda and Ethiopia, He has a background in teaching and applied research and holds a Ph.D degree in Natural Resources Management, a Masters Degree in Ecology and Botany, and a Bachelors degree in Botany and Geography. As an educator he taught undergraduate and post graduate students in Australia, and conducted applied research and training programs for institutions and government agencies over the world.
( PICTURE) Dr Squires Friendship award in science and technology, Awarded by the Chinese Government.
Dr Victor Squires is an Australian, a former Dean of the Faculty of Natural Resources at Adelaide University and the Foundation Director of the National Key Centre for Dryland Agriculture and Land Use Systems. He is an Adjunct Professor in the University of Arizona, USA. He is an internationally well known environment expert who has conducted many projects in multiple sectors of environment protection, natural resource and biodiversity conservation, land degradation and desertification control.
Dr. Squires has worked in many developing countries, including China, Mongolia, Central Asia, Vietnam, Rwanda and Ethiopia, He has a background in teaching and applied research and holds a Ph.D degree in Natural Resources Management, a Masters Degree in Ecology and Botany, and a Bachelors degree in Botany and Geography. As an educator he taught undergraduate and post graduate students in Australia, and conducted applied research and training programs for institutions and government agencies over the world.
( PICTURE) Dr Squires Friendship award in science and technology, Awarded by the Chinese Government.
Mr Momir Vranes
Mr Momir Vranes has 25 years of professional experience in water resources management, environmental capacity building and institutional strengthening in 15 developing countries. In his career he held posts of Water Resources Development Engineer, Senior Engineer, Certified Engineer Designer, Team Leader, Chief Technical Advisor, Regional Team Leader, UN Project Director and UN Programme Officer / Manager. He managed to facilitate agreements on international water management in Central Asia and on sustainable development in three Eastern Indonesian provinces. He is experienced in capacity building in transitional economies, in fields related to the sustainable resources management, while throughout maintaining a close link to the on-farm development work - and work with farmers - in irrigation systems in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. He is based in Brisbane.
Mr Momir Vranes has 25 years of professional experience in water resources management, environmental capacity building and institutional strengthening in 15 developing countries. In his career he held posts of Water Resources Development Engineer, Senior Engineer, Certified Engineer Designer, Team Leader, Chief Technical Advisor, Regional Team Leader, UN Project Director and UN Programme Officer / Manager. He managed to facilitate agreements on international water management in Central Asia and on sustainable development in three Eastern Indonesian provinces. He is experienced in capacity building in transitional economies, in fields related to the sustainable resources management, while throughout maintaining a close link to the on-farm development work - and work with farmers - in irrigation systems in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. He is based in Brisbane.