CURRICULUM VITAE


Simon J EDEN-GREEN
EG Consulting
Great Lunsford Farmhouse
470 Lunsford Lane
Larkfield, Kent ME20 6JA
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1634 245704
Fax: +44 (0) 1634 245690
Mobile 07719 666446
Email: egc@eden-green.co.uk
British citizen; born London, 4 June, 1947; married, two children
Project manager with a background in natural science research (plant pathology and protection of tropical crops). Project and programme planning and implementation skills gained in both public and private sectors and through work overseas, including technical design, team management, logistics, reporting and financial control. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with track record of experience in coordinating, facilitating, and synthesising high level technical and policy meetings, documents and position papers. Strong perceptive and analytical skills to grasp and understand the implications of both conceptual arguments and physical processes. Works on own initiative and as a strong team player.

Key expertise and experience

Plant pathology and crop protection; insect-borne diseases and plant-insect vector relationships; microbiology (bacteria and mycoplasmas); diagnostic techniques (serology, monoclonal antibodies); programme and project management. Crop specialisations: pome and top fruits, coconut and other palms, clove and spice crops, maize, bananas.

Career Summary

2003
UK: working as independent consultant

2002 to 2003
UK: Principal Scientist, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich. Based within the Office of the Director, acting as assistant to the director and to the director of research. Responsible for production of reviews on EU, bilateral and charitable funding opportunities. Assistant to secretariat for the European Consortium for Agricultural Research in the Tropics (ECART). Left in June 2003 to pursue independent consultancy interests.

1996 to 2002
UK: University of Greenwich, on secondment to Natural Resources International (NRIL). Manager, Department for International Development (DFID; formerly Overseas Development Administration, ODA) Crop Protection Programme. This is a competitive grants programme contracted by DFID to NRIL (a joint venture company owned equally by the University of Edinburgh, the University of Greenwich and Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London). Responsible for overall management of the programme and for developing strategy to deliver and promote its outputs, including project selection, review through an external Programme Advisory Committee, reporting and project monitoring, overall financial control of an annual budget of approx. £5m. Successfully improved client confidence and satisfaction resulting in an increase of more than 10% of the DFID research budget for the programme at a time of diminishing financial resources within DFID.

1991 - 1996
UK: ODA Natural Resources Institute (NRI). Formerly an executive agency of the ODA, NRI became part of the University of Greenwich following privatisation. Head of Plant Pathology and Weed Science Department (to 1995). Built up a department from less than 10 to more than 25 professional staff. Acted as project manager for an ODA National Plant Protection Service project in Belize (approx. value USD 1.3m) and project coordinator for an European Union Science and Technology for Development (STD3) Coconut Lethal Yellowing project in Africa (approx. value £1.4m). Crop Protection Programme production systems leader and senior plant pathologist (1995-96).

1989 - 1991
UK: ODA Corps of Specialists, bacterial plant diseases. Based at Rothamsted Experimental Station in support of research projects on the detection and diagnosis of bacterial diseases of tropical crops, including a world-wide review of research and research needs on bacterial wilt disease of tropical crops (Ralstonia solanacearum).

1973 - 1989
Appointed to Rothamsted Experimental Station as Higher Scientific Officer in 'home-based' post scheme operated with the ODA. Senior Scientific Officer (1978); acting Principal Scientific Officer (Grade 7, 1982). Postings included:

1982 - 1989
Indonesia: Plant Pathologist/Entomologist with Overseas Development Administration Clove Diseases Research Project based at Bogor. Project leader 1985-1988. Initiated and managed research on the distribution, diagnosis, mode of spread and control of Sumatra disease (SD), a serious bacterial disease of clove trees active in Sumatra and Java. Identified tube building cercopoids (Hindola spp., Homoptera: Machaerotidae) as vectors of the disease, determined characteristics of disease transmission and contributed to characterisation and description of the causal agent as new species Pseudomonas syzygii.

Investigated spread of banana blood disease to Java and showed that the causal bacterium was related to, but distinct from Ralstonia solanacearum race 2, the causal agent of moko disease of banana and plantain in Latin America and of moko and bugtok diseases in the Philippines.

1973 -1982
Jamaica: Plant Pathologist/Entomologist with the Overseas Development Administration Lethal Yellowing of Coconuts Research Project based at the Coconut Industry Board, Kingston. Joint project leader, 1976-1982. Initiated and managed research on insect vectors of coconut lethal yellowing disease (CLY), a devastating disease associated with phytoplasmas (mycoplasma-like organisms or MLO). Contributed to work on corn stunt disease (Spiroplasma kunkelii) and assisted with coconut tissue culture investigations.

1969 - 1972
UK: Research Assistant, East Malling Research Station, UK. Postgraduate research on fireblight disease of apple, pear and hawthorn (Erwinia amylovora). Demonstrated the dissemination of disease in bacterial strands by dry air using a controlled environment wind tunnel. Investigated modes of bacterial migration in plant tissues and determined the composition of bacterial exudate and its component bacterial exopolysaccharide.

1968 - 1969
Temporary jobs as research assistant, British Oxygen Company (BOC International), Morden (food preservation); and quality control officer, Bjäre Industrier AB, Sweden (food processing).

Other overseas experience

Worldwide: 1996-2002. Numerous visits to Africa, Indian and SE Asian subcontinents to develop and assess projects under DFID CPP management. Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka: 1995. Programme development mission to develop projects on coconuts and to investigate possible bacterial disease of bananas in Sri Lanka. Ghana, Tanzania, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, India, France, USA and Mexico: 1991-1996. Short visits to initiate and monitor research and carry out fieldwork under EC coconut lethal yellowing disease project.
Belize: 1992-1995. Leader of National Plant Protection Service project inception review mission and Project Manager.
Mexico: 1992 and 1993. Project identification and planning visits to International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT).
USA, Mexico, Peru, Grenada, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia: 1989-1991. Short study visits to survey bacterial wilt diseases of tropical crops and prepare project proposals.

Professional qualifications

BSc Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia (1969)
PhD University of London (1972)
Member, Association of Applied Biologists; Association of Applied Bacteriologists;
British Society for Plant Pathology; Tropical Agriculture Association
Member of editorial board of journal "Plant Pathology"; 1995 to present.
Chairman, Programme Committee of the Bureau for Research on Tropical Perennial Oilseed Crops (Burotrop); 1999 to present.

Over 90 research publications.

Languages

English (mother tongue); French (fair); Indonesian (fair)