Lindsay Falvey

Professor Lindsay Falvey has led research and development missions and projects in dozens of countries on behalf of all major development agencies. Beginning his agricultural career as a rouseabout on a remote Northern Territory cattle research station, Lindsay became CEO of international development consulting companies, Dean and Chair of Agriculture at the University of Melbourne where he continues as Professor Emeritus, and a long-serving director of a major foreign agribusiness investor in Australian agriculture. He has worked with Ausaid, the World Bank, ADB, the UN and other agencies, and is the author of several agricultural science books. Lindsay is immediate past Board Chair of the International Livestock Research Institute, which is the CGIAR centre focused on livestock research oriented to the marginalised poor in the developing world particularly in Africa and Asia.