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Personal data

Year of Birth	TAA Member No	Title	Forenames:	Surname:
1964	587	Dr	Ruth Camilla	MALLESON

Record of posts and assignments

Year	Job Title	Organisation	Country	Responsibilities
2008	Forest governance and gender advisor	Iwokrama Programme, Commonwealth Secretariat / BioDiversity International Ltd.	Guyana	Field assessment and document analysis to evaluate efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability of 18 years of Commonwealth Secretariat Funding for the Iwokrama Programme - a forest conservation and sustainable development project.
2007	Consultant, Sustainable Timber Choices for Coastal and River Engineering	UK Environment Agency / BioDiversity International Ltd.	UK	Responsible for research to draw up a framework to enable the Environment Agency to make sustainable choices of tropical timber for marine and freshwater construction projects.
2007	Consultant, Research into Use Programme: Peer review of output proformas	NR International	UK	Review and assess the quality of Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy project outputs and select best outputs to take forward to attain widespread impact on poverty reduction and economic growth in DFID public service agreement countries.
2005 - 2007	Socio-economic Adviser	GEF-funded Lambusango Forest Conservation Project, SE Sulawesi	Indonesia	Design, lead and manage cross-cultural research team to assess forest livelihoods of communities, identify livelihood sources which provide incentives for forest conservation and community forest management initiatives.
2000 -2006	Socio-economic Consultant	DFID funded African Rattan Research Programme	UK, Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria	Design, lead and manage research to generate a socially differentiated view of the significance of non-timber forest products (NTFPs).
2006	Consultant	Eden Project	UK	Advise on planting for Cameroon section of humid tropics Biome
2003-2004	Senior Development Officer	BioDiversity International Ltd.	UK, India, Cameroon	Overseas consultancies in rural development.
2001-2002	Technical Assistant	DFID/Botswana government-funded Botswana Range Inventory and Monitoring Project	Botswana	Lead and manage research team to assess the impact of rangeland changes and range-related policies on rural livelihoods. Design and implement community-based range monitoring programme.
October 2001	Consultant	Rainforest Alliance’s Sustainable Botanicals Project	UK	Survey on the social and environmental responsibility of medicinal plant
1997 - 2000	Ph.D. student	Dept. of Anthropology University College London (UCL)	UK	Thesis provides and understanding of forest livelihoods in Southwest Cameroon
1992-1997	Research Assistant	Dept. of Anthropology, University College London	Cameroon	ERSC-funded project entitled the Cultural Context of Rainforest Conservation in West Africa
1986-1992	Rural Development Adviser	WWF Korup Project	Cameroon	Project management and coordination, manage field research. Partnership and capacity building.
1985-1986	Research Assistant	Bioresources Ltd. "operating arm" of charity Earthlife	UK	Agroforestry, ethnobotany, biotechnology, tropical hardwood timber trade.

Skills, expertise and qualifications


Principal Discipline	Rural Development, Sociology, Environment, Agricultural, Forestry
Subsidiary fields	Rural Sociology, Forestry: Community, Participatory Development, Rural Livelihood Systems, Ecology and Environment, Wildlife/National Parks, Agro-forestry
Higher education	University College London – PhD in Social Anthropology, November 2000 Oxford University BA Hons. MA in Agricultural and Forest Sciences 1985
Countries worked in	Botswana, Cameroon, Ghana, Guyana, Nigeria, India, Indonesia
Languages	French, Pidgin English
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