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Curriculum vitae:

2005

Honorary Doctor of Science at Birmingham University

2005 Honorary Doctorate at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences
2005 - present Member Academic Committee for the Center for Crop Genetic Resources and Gene Improvement, China National Grand Scientific Engineering Program
2005 Economic & Social Research Council Network Mid-Term Review, Panel Member

2004 - present

Member, CGIAR Science Council

2004 - present

Member, CGIAR Genetic Resources Policy Committee

2004 - 2005

DFID Renewable Natural Resources Research Programme Evaluation Steering Group.

2002 - present

Member, Scientific Advisory Committee for Rockefeller Foundation’s Program on ‘Biotechnology, Breeding and Seed Systems for African Crops’

2002 - 2003

Chair, Vth External Programme Management Review Panel, International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome

2002 - 2003

Member, GM Debate Science Review Panel, Department of Trade and Industry

2000

Chair, TAC Commissioned Review on Plant Breeding Methodologies, International Rice Research Institute Sub-Panel

2000 - 2004

Member, Board of Trustees, International Rice Research Institute, Manila

1999 - 2004

Member and Chair, Advisory Committee to the Central Advisory Services on Intellectual Property for the CGIAR, ISNAR, The Hague

1999 - 2003

John Innes Professor, University of East Anglia

1998 - 2003

Director and Consultant, Plant Bioscience Ltd., UK

1998

Elected Foreign Fellow, Chinese Academy of Engineering

1998

Awarded the Royal Society Darwin Medal

1997 - present

Member, Fachbeirat (Advisory Board) Max-Planck Institut fur Chemische Okologie, Jena, Germany

1997 - 1999 & 2002 - 2003

Member, Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party on the Genetic Modification of Plants

1996

Elected Fellow of the Royal Society

1997

Awarded Rank Prize for Nutrition

1996 - 2000

Member, Health and Safety Executive Advisory Committee on Genetic Manipulation

1994

Awarded Agricultural Society of England Research Medal Royal

1994 - 2003

Associate Research Director, John Innes Centre (Acting Director Oct-Dec 1998, Director Jan-Sept 1999)

1994 - 2003

Founder member and Co-ordinator, International Grass Genome Initiative

1992

Head of Cambridge Laboratory, Norwich

1992 - 2004

Member, Scientific Advisory Board, School of Biological Sciences, Reading University

1992 - present

Founder member, International Organising Committee, Plant and Animal Genome Conferences held every year in San Diego

1990 - 1995

Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Overseas Development Administration Plant Breeding and Physiology Management Group

1989 - 1999

Member, Scientific Advisory Committee for the Rockefeller Foundation Rice Biotechnology Programme

1989

Farrer Bicentennial Fellow, Department of Agriculture, NSW, Australia

1988

Head of Cereals Research Department, Institute of Plant Science Research, Cambridge

1987 - 1988

Member, Novel Crops and Livestock Enterprise Review Group, MAFF

1985

Individual Merit Promotion Band 3

1984 - 1985

Sabbatical visit to Div Plant Industry, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia

1968 - 1985

Scientific Officer, Senior Scientific Officer, Principal Scientific Officer at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge

1969

PhD, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth

1965

BSc (Genetics), Birmingham University