ISTRC Council Meeting (ISTRC 2000, Tsukuba, Japan): (left to right sitting) Chandra, Poulter, Wickham, Otoo. (standing) Westby, Edison, Komaki, Akoroda. (Alvarez and Cereda not pictured)

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President Dr N Poulter

Vice-President (Fund Raising) Dr M Akoroda

Secretary Treasurer Dr L Wickham

Councillor for Publications Professor A Westby

Regional Councillors

Africa, Dr J Otoo

East Asia, Dr K Komaki

South and SE Asia, Dr S Edison

North America/Europe, Dr N Alvarez

South America, Dr M Cereda

South Pacific, Dr S Chandra

Caribbean, Dr L Wickham

Adapted from material submitted October 2000 and January/March 2001 by Professor A Westby, ISTRC Councillor for Publications.

President

Dr Nigel Poulter c/o 65 The Quarries Boughton Monchelsea Maidstone Kent ME17 4NJ United Kingdom

Tel/Fax: +44-1622-743266
Email jennifer.poulter@virgin.net

Profile

Dr Poulter was a Programme Leader for the Crop Post Harvest Research Programme supported by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) until 1998 and was based with NR International at Chatham Maritime in Kent, UK. This Programme supported numerous tropical root crops research projects around the world and forged global links with national and international root crops programmes. Dr Poulter is now a freelance food consultant whilst remaining an enthusiastic devotee of tropical root crops as a means to the allieviation of poverty and improved household and community food security.

Dr Poulter was elected as President of the ISTRC in 2000 having previously filled the roles of Councillor Publications and Vice-President (Fund Raising) since 1995.

Councillor for Publications

Professor Andrew Westby Food Systems Department Natural Resources Institute University of Greenwich Central Avenue Chatham ME4 4TB United Kingdom

Tel: +44-1634-883478
Fax: +44-1634-883714
Email a.westby@gre.ac.uk

Profile

Professor Westby is the Research Leader of the Food Systems Department at the Natural Resources Institute. He joined NRI in 1987 and has worked on a wide range of projects concerned with the post-harvest aspects of tropical root and tuber crops.

Professor Westby was elected as Councillor Publications in 2000.

Regional Councillor Africa

Dr John Otoo
Director
Crops Research Institute
PO Box 3785
Kumasi
Ghana

Tel: +233-51-60389/60395/60396
Fax: +233-51-60142/60396
Email jotoo@ghana.com

Profile

Dr Otoo is currently Director of the Crops Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Ghana, West Africa. Before appointment as Director, he was the National Coordinator of the National Root and Tuber Research Programme. Dr Otoo has nine years of previous experience working with IITA's Root and Tuber Improvement Programme. Dr Otoo has conducted research on cassava, yam, sweetpotato and cocoyam as well as other crops such as maize, cotton, soyabean and tobacco.

Dr Otoo has served ISTRC as the Councillor for the Africa Region since 1991. He has also acted as the secretary of the ISTRC-Africa Branch from 1986 to 1992.

Regional Councillor East Asia

Dr Katsumi Komaki Director of Research Assessment Council for Science and Technology Policy 1-1-15 Nishi-Shinbashi Minato Ward, Tokyo 105-0003 Japan

E-mail: kkomaki@op.cao.go.jp

Profile

Dr Komaki is currently Director of Research Assessment at the
Council for Science and Technology Policy in Japan. His previous
positions have included Senior Research Coordinator at the
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council in Ministry of
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and Head, Sweetpotato Breeding
Lab. National Agriculture Research Center, Tsukuba, Ibaraki,
Japan. He has been a Visiting Scientist at the University of
Florida. He has extensive experience and published widely on the
subject of sweetpotato breeding.

Regional Councillor South Pacific

Dr Satish Chandra AusAID, GPO Box 887, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 2601

Tel: +61-2-6206-4633
Fax: +61-2-6206-4949
E-mail: satish_chandra@ausaid.gov.au

Profile

Dr Satish Chandra is the Councillor for the South Pacific. His
experience in tropical root crops includes farming systems, agronomy,
and economics of production and marketing. He is the former Director
of Agricultural Research in Fiji. His current interest is in the link
between the development of tropical root crops and poverty alleviation
in the developing countries, with a particular focus on the South
Pacific countries.

Adapted from material submitted October/December 2000, and March 2001 by Professor A Westby, ISTRC Councillor for Publications.