CTA Staff

PhD in Tropical Agriculture (1990) from the Instituto Superior de Agronomia (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa), Portugal

• Associate Professor (Sustainable Development of African Rural Communities, Tropical Agriculture Production and Systems Tropical Agriculture) at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA) since 1981
• Former member of the Steering Committee of the European Forum for Agricultural Research (EFARD) (1999-2001)
• Former president of the Portuguese Agency for Development (IPAD) (2005-2012)
• National Expert for the 5th Framework Program for Development Assistance of the EU

Doctor in Agro-Economics (2004) from University of Montpellier, France

• National expert and coordinator of Agricultural policy, strategies and prospectives unit, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Centrafrique, since 2013
• Director General of Regulatory Office for Marketing and Control of Packaging of Agricultural Products (2005-2013)
• Director of the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit and Prospects of the Agency of Centrafrique for Agricultural Development (1993-2005)

MSc in Crop Science specialization in Crop Production (1997) from Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands.

• Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Samoa since 2017
• Chief Executive Officer, Scientific Research Organisation of Samoa (2011-2016)
• Acting Head of School, School of Agriculture & Food Technology Facutly of Islands & Oceans, USP Alafua Campus (2006-2008)
• Senior lecturer (Soil Science & Applied Statistics), School of Agriculture & Food Technology Facutly of Islands & Oceans, USP Alafua Campus (1998-2011)

PhD in Economics (2003) from Lund University, Sweden

• Director of the AgriFood Economics Centre, Lund University, since 2009
• Researcher at the Swedish Institute for Food and Agriculture Economics (2001-2008)
• Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Lund University (2002-2003)

Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (1996) from Medunsa, South Africa and Master of Business Administration (2003) from NWU, South Africa

• Minister Counsellor Agriculture at the South African Embassy to Belgium and Luxemburg and Mission to the European Union since 2015
• Director Food Safety & Quality Assurance at the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2008-2015)
• Act Chief Executive Officer, Onderstepoort Biological Products LTD (2008-2009)
• General Manager-Government Operations, Bytes Specialised Solutions (2006-2008)
• State Veterinarian and Deputy Director (1999-2006)
• Senior Lecturer, NWU (1996-1999)

MSc in Horticulture & Crop protection (1988) from Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands

• Senior lecturer (Future Food Systems) at HAS University of Applied Sciences, since 2006
• Expert/Consultant for the FAO (1995-2008)