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Andrew Bennett was formerly Chief Natural Resources Adviser
and Director for Rural Livelihoods and Environment at the UK Department for
International Development (DFID). He took up a new appointment as Director of
the Syngenta Foundation, Switzerland, in September 2002.
Educated at St
Edwards School, Oxford (l955-60); University of Wales, Bangor (l96l-65);
University of the West Indies, Trinidad (l966-67) and University of Reading
(l969-70).
Andrew was a VSO
in Kenya (l965-66) before studying Tropical Agriculture at the University of
the West Indies (l966-67). In l967 he was posted as an Agricultural Research
Officer to the Government of St Vincent (West Indies); in l969 he returned to
study crop protection at the University of Reading. Between l97l-74 he worked
for the Government of Malawi as Maize Agronomist responsible for the National
Maize Agronomy Research Programme. After a short advisory assignment to the
Government of Nepal, he worked as Crop Development Manager and Chief Research
Officer in Southern Sudan, in a programme of assistance funded by the World
Bank and the British Government. In l980 he was appointed Assistant
Agricultural Adviser to ODA covering UK Aid Programmes in West Africa and the
Middle East. In l983 he was posted to Bangkok as Natural Resources Adviser to
the (British) South-East Asia Development Division, where he was responsible
for Renewable Natural Resources Development Programmes in Nepal, Burma,
Thailand and Indonesia. He was posted to Fiji in l985 to run the British
Development Division in Suva. From March l987 to May
2002, he was Chief Natural Resources Adviser with responsibility for
policy and advisory services and research on renewable natural resources and
environmental issues and also Director; Rural Livelihoods and Environment in
DFID
The
Doyle Foundation