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John McWilliam CV

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Personal data
Year of Birth
TAA Member No
Title
Forenames:
Surname:

 1954

618

 Mr

 John Patrick

 MCWILLIAM

Record of posts and assignments
Year
Job Title
Organisation
Country
Responsibilities

2002-

Farmer

Self Employed

France

Maintain cidre orchards, produce and market cidre bouchė and develop tourism.

1995– 02

Agricultural Expert

GTZ

Ghana

Develop participatory extension and implement sustainable farming practices to safeguard forest reserves.

1992-94

Field Director

GTZ

Sierra Leone

Coordinate a RDP responsible for regional development of water, infrastructure, agriculture and latterly relief operations.

1990-91

Technical Assistant

SOFRECO/ E.U

Sierra Leone

Coordinate field operations of an ADP to develop Port Loko district.

1984-89

Estate Manager

CDC

Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia

Manage new large scale cocoa and oil palm developments including, plantation design, nurseries clearing, planting and infrastructure

1983-84

Technical Co-operation Officer

ODA

Thailand

Assess and advise on marling rates for rice on acid sulphate soils.

1981-82

Rice Agronomist

ODA

Sierra Leone

Research on mangrove swamp rice varieties with reference to nitrogen and density

1979-80

Research Technician

Leeds University

England

Research on mineralisation rates of organic matter

 

Skills, expertise and qualifications

Principal Discipline 
Project Management
Subsidiary fields
Agro-forestry, cocoa, extension, fruit, oil palm, plantation/estate management, rice, rural development
Higher education 
Chartered Biologist, 1990 (Institute of Biology), Master of Agricultural Science in Tropical Crops, 1982 (Reading University) Bachelor of Agricultural Science, 1979 (Leeds University)
Countries worked in 
Congo, England, France, Ghana, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Thailand
Languages
French, Swahili, Indonesian
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