CHANGES IN PROFESSIONAL STAFF

During 1988, Mr Bruce Scott (Canada), Dr Amare Getahun (Ethiopia), Dr Cherrnor Kamara (Sierra Leone), Dr Moses Karachi (Kenya), Dr James Roger (UK), Dr Ramamohana Rao (India), Ms Sidney Wesdey (USA), Ms Annie Leymarie (France), Mr Stephen Mburu (Kenya) and Mrs Damary Odanga (Kenya) joined ICRAF.

Mr Scott was appointed Director of COLLPRO. Dr Amare joined COLLPRO as Principal Scientist/Project Leader, and Dr Kamara and Dr Karachi joined AFRENA as Project Scientists, in Zambia and Tanzania respectively. Dr Rao joined RDD as Senior Research Scientist and Dr Roger joined the same division as Senior Statistician/Biometrician. Ms Westley came to ICRAF as Head of the Communications Unit in INFOCOMM. Ms Leymarie joined INFOCOMM as Translator/Reviser, Mr Mburu came to the same division as Computer Programmer and Mrs Odanga joined INFOCOMM as Graphic Artist.

Four professional staff members left ICRAF in the course of the year. These were; Mr Denis Depommier (France), Scientist seconded from the CTFT; Mr Richard Ntiru (Uganda), Publications Officer; Mr Peter Wood (UK), Senior Scientist; and Mr Mark Sandiford (UK), Research Associate supported by the British Government's ODA.

Four Research Associates joined ICRAF during the year: Mr Hendrik Prins (Netherlands), Mr Henricus Thijssen (Netherlands), Mr Gilles de Chatelperron (France) and Mr Jacques P6gori6 (France). Dr Luther Lulandala (Tanzania) worked at ICRAF for six months as a Senior Visiting Scientist.

Two consultants were hired during the year. Ms Eva Muller (FRG) joined ICRAF for six months to work on the Information Management for Agroforestry Project, and Mr Jan Beniest (Belgium) was hired for four months to develop training materials for ICRAF's training unit.

Two divisional administrators were recruited during the year: Mrs Geeta Patel (Kenya) for the Collaborative Programmes Division and Mrs Milcah Mbindyo (Kenya) for the Information and Communications Division.