| 词条 | Gordon Conway |
| 释义 |
| name = Sir Gordon Conway | birth_name = Gordon Richard Conway | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date ={{Birth date|df=yes|1938|07|06}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = Agricultural Ecology | workplaces = Imperial College London University of California, Davis The Rockefeller Foundation | alma_mater = Bangor University Cambridge University University of the West Indies University of California, Davis | thesis_title = A Basic Model of Insect Reproduction and its Implications for Pest Control | thesis_url = http://search.proquest.com/docview/302370900 | thesis_year = 1969 | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = Fellow of the Royal Society (2004) KCMG (2005) Founder's Medal (2017) | signature = | signature_alt = | website = {{URL|www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/g.conway}} | footnotes = | spouse = }} Sir Gordon Richard Conway {{postnominals|country=GBR|KCMG|FRS|FRGS|FREng}} (born 6 July 1938) is an agricultural ecologist and former President of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Royal Geographical Society. He is currently Professor of International Development at Imperial College, London 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. EducationConway 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. CareerIn 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.[1][2][3][4][5] He was elected the eleventh President of The Rockefeller Foundation in April 1998, a position he held until 2004. [6] From 2004 to 2009 he was also President of the Royal Geographical Society.[7] He took up his appointment as the UK Department for International Development's Chief Scientific Adviser in January 2005, serving until 2009.[8][9][10][11][12] Conway now works at Imperial College London and heads the Bill & Melinda Gates funded project Agriculture for Impact looking into ways to increase and enhance agricultural development for smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is a Deputy Lieutenant for East Sussex. Honours and awards
BooksHe has authored:
He co-authored:
References1. ^he Rockefeller Foundation and Plant Biotechnology 24 June 1999 2. ^The Voice of Reason in the Global Food Fight 21 February 2000 3. ^Dr. Gordon Conway 4. ^The world in microcosm: an interview with Gordon Conway 8 December 2004 5. ^Biotechnology and Hunger 8 May 2003 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://rockefeller100.org/biography/show/sir-gordon-conway |title= 100 Years: The Rockefeller Foundation: Biography: Sir Gordon Conway |publisher= The Rockefeller Archive Center |accessdate=2 April 2014}} 7. ^President 8. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/gmdebate/Story/0,,1599277,00.html The ideas interview: Gordon Conway] 24 October 2005 9. ^Sir Gordon Conway interview Summer 2006 10. ^Technology adoption: the true measure of success 1 May 2006 11. ^Prof Gordon Conway 12. ^Sir Gordon Conway KCMG FRS 13. ^ {{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/gordon-conway-11256/|title=Gordon Conway|publisher= Royal Society|accessdate= 30 April 2018}} 14. ^http://www.imperial.ac.uk/college.asp?P=5260 15. ^{{cite web|title=List of Fellows|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows}} 16. ^ {{cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/179227/professor-sir-gordon-conway-honoured-with/|title=Professor Sir Gordon Conway honoured with top geographical prize|publisher=Imperial College London|accessdate= 30 April 2018}} External links
12 : 1938 births|Living people|Alumni of Bangor University|Alumni of the University of Cambridge|University of California, Davis alumni|English ecologists|British agriculturalists|Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George|Fellows of the Royal Society|People associated with the University of Sussex|Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society|Deputy Lieutenants of East Sussex |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。