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David Bourn CV

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Personal data
Year of Birth
TAA Member No
Title
Forenames:
Surname:
1947 1421 Dr David

 BOURN

Record of posts and assignments
Year
Job Title
Organisation
Country
Responsibilities
2006- 2008 Chief Technical Advisor FAO Philippines Technical Supervision of Environmental Animal Health Management Initiative  
2005 Reviewer IFAD Burkina Faso , Morocco , Rwanda Case studies of sustainable land management
2004 Team Leader UNESCO Seychelles Ecological monitoring & software development for Aldabra World Heritage Site
2004 Team Leader IFAD Viet Nam Environmental impact assessment of decentralised programme for poverty reduction
2003- 2004 Reviewer UNDP Gambia and Liberia Editorial synthesis & desk-top-publishing various reports incl National MDG reports
2003 Team Leader IFAD & GEF Appraisal of participatory biodiversity conservation and RNR in Mopti Region
2002- 2004 Study Coordinator DEFRA FAO & SADC Studies of distribution & spread of bovine TB. Analysis of cattle movements in UK
2001- 2003 Reviewer FAO Mali Editorial synthesis and desk-top-publishing livestock geography reports
2001 Consultant EDG & DFID Nigeria Project preparation: Jigawa enhanced wetland livelihoods
2000- 2001 Study Coordinator DFID Ethiopia , Kenya , Nigeria , Zimbabwe Review of environmental change and control of tsetse and trypanosomosis
1999 Biodiversity Specialist FAO & SADC Botswana, Namibia, SA, Zambia, Zimbabwe Project preparation: enabling activities for assessment of farm animal genetic resources
1999 EIA Specialist IFAD Rwanda Pro-active assessment for livestock development & environmental protection
1998- 1999 Study Coordinator DFID Kenya , Uganda Review of livestock and wildlife co-existence in eastern Africa
1997 Expedition Leader GEF & SIF Seychelles Ecological research expedition to Aldabra atoll
1995- 1997 Review Coordinator UNESCO & UNDP Lesotho Review of environmental impact assessment of Lesotho Highlands Water Project
1995- 1997 EIA Specialist ODA Kenya Strategic environmental assessment: case studies of tsetse & trypanosomiasis control
1995 Biodiversity Specialist FAO & GEF Lesotho Project preparation: Biodiversity conservation and watershed management
1995 Institutional Specialist IFAD Jordan Project preparation: Rangeland resource monitoring programme
1993 Team Leader UNDP Lesotho Project prep.: National Environment Secretariat
1992 Biodiversity Specialist UNEP Mali, Niger Biodiversity focal points in Niger river basin
1991 Team Leader UNDP Kenya , Malawi , Madagascar Review of UNDP projects for UNCED
1989- 1992 Project manager FGN/ World Bank Nigeria National Livestock Resources Survey
1983- 1989 Aerial Survey
Coordinator
ILCA Mali , Niger , Nigeria , Sudan Natural resource assessment: integrated aerial and ground surveys
1976- 1982 Technical cooperation officer ODA Ethiopia , Nigeria , Somalia Ecological and epidemiological research and project management
Skills, expertise and qualifications

Principal Discipline 
Project Management / Agriculture / Ecology / Environment
Subsidiary fields
Development planning, ecology & environment, editing & publishing, farming systems, geographical information systems, mapping/survey, project preparation, remote sensing, research watershed management, wildlife/ national parks
Higher education 
BSc Zoology, Edinburgh, 1969 
MSc Ecology, Edinburgh, 1972
DPhil Oxford, Agric. Ecology, 1983
Countries worked in 
Botswana, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Niger, Philippines, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Viet Nam, Zimbabwe
Languages
French
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