International Food Policy Research Institute
sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty
We are pleased to invite you to a Policy Seminar given by Sir Gordon Conway, world renowned agricultural ecologist. Sir Gordon Conway pioneered integrated pest management in Borneo (Malaysia) in the 1960s, and developed agroecosystems analysis in Thailand. He was one of the first to define the concept of sustainable agriculture. From 1970 to 1986 he was Professor of Environmental Technology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. He also directed the sustainable agriculture program of the International Institute for Environment and Development in London before becoming a representative of the Ford Foundation in New Delhi from 1988 to 1992.
Sir Gordon was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex and Chair of the Institute for Developmental Studies from 1992 to 1998. Prior to taking up his appointment as DFID’s Chief Scientific Adviser in 2005, he was President of the Rockefeller Foundation (1998-2004).
Among Sir Gordon’s publications are: Unwelcome Harvest: Agriculture and Pollution; The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for all in the 21st century and Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All. He was educated at the Universities of Wales (Bangor), Cambridge, Trinidad and California (Davis).