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Personal data

Year of Birth	TAA Member No	Title	Forenames:	Surname:
1946	012	Mr	Trevor	ABELL

Record of posts and assignments

Year	Job Title	Organisation	Country	Responsibilities
2006-	Project Development Manager	Scottish Institute for Sustainable Technology (SisTech), Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh	UK	Project development, with special attention to biomass-energy projects and research/ consultancy linked to overseas development activities.
2003-06	Principal Scientist	NRI	UK	Forest consultancy and research; bid preparation
2000-03	Forest Planner	Forestry Commission	Ghana	Management plans, forest inventory
1998-2000	Group Head	NRI	UK	Project management, project preparation, preparation of proposals and tenders.
1998	Team Leader	DFID	Indonesia	Second Forest Sector analysis as a background to future DFID support.
1997-98	Forest Planner	Forest Department	Ghana	Preparation of manual of procedures for management planning
1997	Team Leader	DFID	Nigeria	Project preparation for community project within Cross River State
1996	Team Leader	DFID	Indonesia	Forest Sector analysis and programme for DFID support
1995-96	Forestry Specialist	Asian Development Bank	Bangladesh	Project preparation mission, inputs on forest management
1991-95	Planning Officer	Department of Forestry	Malawi	Policy formulation, harvesting plans, inventories of natural and plantations,
1990	Forest Specialist	ODA (DFID)	Belize	Regional studies, forest resource analysis and separate mission to prepare project for ODA.
1989/90	Forestry Expert	ODA/World Bank	Tanzania	Project preparation of community forestry programme.
1988	Research Planner	ODA	Sudan	Development of programme for development of forest research capacity for support by ODA.
1987-89	Forest Planner	ODA (DFID)	Indonesia	Regional physical planning in support of the transmigration programme
1982-86	Forestry Adviser	Kenya Forest Department	Kenya	Community forestry, forestry extension, plantation development
1979-82	Adviser	ODA (DFID)	Nepal	Community forestry development
1977-79	Forest Inventory Expert	ODA	Indonesia	Transmigration planning, analysis of forest resources on potential settlement sites.
1976	Forest Inventory Expert	ODA	Sudan	Inventory of natural and plantation forests, management planning
1969-75	Silviculturist	Forest Research Station	Zambia	Plantation research – design and analysis of trials related to development of the plantation programme.

Skills, expertise and qualifications


Principal Discipline		Forestry
Subsidiary fields		Agroforestry, forestry (community), forestry (plantation), land evaluation, participatory development, project management, project preparation, regional master planning
Higher education		BSc Forestry Aberdeen 1968, Tropical Forestry Oxford Forestry Institute 1968-69, Research Methodologies Oxford Forestry Institute, 1976
Countries worked in		Argentina, Bangladesh, Belize, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, UK, Zambia
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