Gordon Conway
| Gordon Conway | |
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| Born | Gordon Richard Conway |
| Fields | Agricultural Ecology |
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Imperial College London Bangor University University of California, Davis The Rockefeller Foundation |
| Alma mater | University of California, Davis |
| Thesis | A Basic Model of Insect Reproduction and its Implications for Pest Control (1969) |
| Notable awards | Fellow of the Royal Society |
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Sir Gordon Richard Conway KCMG FRS FRGS FREng is an agricultural ecologist and former President of the Royal Geographical Society. He is currently Professor of International Development at Imperial College and Director of Agriculture for Impact, a grant funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which focuses on European support of agricultural development in Africa.
Conway was educated at the Bangor University, Cambridge University and the University of the West Indies in Trinidad. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of California, Davis.
In the early 1960s, working in Sabah, North Borneo, he became one of the pioneers of sustainable agriculture and integrated pest management. From 1970 to 1986, he was Professor of Environmental Technology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. He then directed the sustainable agriculture program of the International Institute for Environment and Development in London before becoming Representative of the Ford Foundation in New Delhi from 1988 to 1992. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex and Chair of the Institute of Development Studies.
Conway was elected the eleventh President of The Rockefeller Foundation in April 1998, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004 and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2007.
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