The TAAI Land Maxing Programme Team
The members currently volunteering to serve on the TAAI Land Maxing Programme Team are as follows:
Overall Project Team Leaders: Mark Hopkins and Paul Harding
Technical Lead: Roger Leakey
Financial Oversight: Jim Ellis-Jones
IT, Communications and Data Management: Nige Verity
Country Project Leaders: Mike Russell (Ethiopia), Colin Andrews (Malawi), Hugh Gibbon (Kenya) and (later) Alison Hall (Uganda)
Programme Advisory Panel: More than forty TAAI members providing a broad range of expertise including trees, agroforestry, soils sciences, natural resources management, land husbandry, livestock, health, biodiversity, economics, social sciences, education, extension, and agro-entrepreneurship including: Mark Hopkins, Paul Harding, Roger Leakey, Andrew Bennett, Tony Simons, Girish Bhardwaj, Karim Hussein, Hugh Gibbon, David Radcliffe, Suzanne Sharrock, Jim Ellis-Jones, Olafur Oddgeirsson, Ruth Malleson, Mike Robbins, Nicki Yates, Alex Macpherson, Michael Wales, Francesco Zampaolo, Colin Andrews, Mike Russell, Geoff Hawtin, Jim Sweet, Jacobus Petersen, Ethan Simonyi-Gindele, Ralph von Kaufmann, Patrick McKenna, David Hughes, Ian Twyford, Harry Franks, Ivan Sidique-Sillah, James Biscoe, Richard Baines, Steven Waikwa, Julian Stanning, Doug Wholey, Nick Evans, Charles Bevan, Eleanor Gardner, Nige Verity, Andy Ward, Allison Hall
Programme Proposal Writing Team: Mark Hopkins (chair), Mike Russell, Olafor Oddgeirsson, Nick Evans, James Biscoe, Nicki Yates, Eleanor Garner, David Radcliffe, Paul Harding, Tony Simons, Andrew Bennett, Jim Ellis-Jones, Roger Leakey.
Funding Committee: Mike Russell, Olafor Oddgeirsson, Ian Twyford, Paul Harding, Tony Simons, Roger Leakey, Martin Evans. We need a Leader for this Committee.
Project Field Staff: Mike Russell, Nick Evans, Hugh Gibbon, Alison Hall, James Biscoe, Mark Hopkins, Alex McPherson, Steve Waikwa (Kenya), Ethan Simonyi-Gindele (Cabo Verde).
TORs for each position will be prepared. When funding is available, many other TAAI members will become available. Recruitment from outside of TAAI is also possible.
