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Gordon Conway took up his appointment as Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department of International Development (DFID) in January 2005. He was educated at the University of Wales, Bangor, the University of Cambridge, the University of Trinidad, and the University of California, Davis. His discipline is agricultural ecology. In the early 1960’s, he worked in Sabah, North Borneo, and became one of the pioneers of sustainable agriculture. From 1970 to 1986, he was Professor of Environmental Technology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. During this period, he lived and worked in many countries in Asia and the Middle East. He then directed the sustainable agriculture program of the International Institute for Environment and Development in London. From 1988 to 1992, he was Representative of the Ford Foundation in New Delhi; from 1992 to 1998, he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex and Chair of the Institute for Development Studies. He was President of The Rockefeller Foundation from 1998 to 2004. He has honorary degrees from the Universities of Sussex, Brighton, Wales, and the West Indies; he is an honorary fellow of the Institute of Biology, and a fellow of Imperial College, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Society. He authored Unwelcome Harvest: Agriculture and Pollution (London: Earthscan), The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in the 21st Century (London: Penguin; Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press), and Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All (London: The Runnymede Trust).
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