Assistant Professor in the college of Agriculture and Environmental Science.

As of July 2017: Programme Coordinator of the BENEFIT REALISE Programme - Ethiopia. The BENEFIT REALISE Programme aims to improve the food security of resource poor farmers in Ethiopia and works closely with the Government of Ethiopia flagship PSNP programme. In BENEFIT REALISE, Wageningen University & Research partners with 8 Ethiopian universities, the Ministry of Agriculture and with national and regional agricultural research institutions. From April 2014 - June 2017: Programme Coordinator of the CASCAPE programme, a joint effort of Ethiopia and The Netherlands to improve agricultural productivity in Ethiopia. CASCAPE is executed in close cooperation with the Agricultural Growth Programme (AGP) of the Ethiopian government.

The overall aim of the 3R Kenya project is that well informed stakeholder actions support the transition from aid to trade and strengthening the aquaculture, dairy and horticulture sector.

At UNEP Sudan, Team Leader of the inception period for a large environmental project in the Darfur Region. Energy, reforestation, erosion control, agriculture, value chains. Duty station: El Fasher, North Darfur.

April 2013 - July 2013At Biomass Research: Business planning around the food - fuel debate.October 2012 - July 2013At BetterBeGreen: Starting up initiatives in biorefinery and bio-energy.September 2010 - June 2011At BetterBeGreen: Starting up initiatives in biorefinery and bio-energy.

September 2012:Handing over CATALIST Project to new COP at IFDC Rwanda.June 2012:Assignment at IFDC HQ in Muscle Shoals Alabama, to review corporate structure and business management functions.May 2012:Design of a project to support a new national fertilizer subsidy policy in Burundi.January - July 2012Country Representative Rwanda and Interim Chief of Party for CATALIST, a € 5 million/yr agricultural intensification project in the Great Lakes Region (Rwanda, Burundi, DRC). Agriculture, soil fertility, fertilizer use, value chains, production clusters.October 2011 - December 2011Sr. consultant on the design of a large food security programme in the Great Lakes region (Rwanda, Burundi, East Congo).

Sr. consultant and deputy team leader on an evaluation of a major forestry and energy project in Rwanda and the DRC. Key responsibilities: value chains, (agro) forestry.

As cofounder and general director of Datheon I got involved in the world of webbased knowledge and information management.

Large grant proposal development, membership management and unrestricted fundraising and strategy development

Programme manager of the development oriented research programme of the Netherlands Agricultural Research Research Center (DLO).

Head of the External Affairs en Communication Department of the Netherlands Agricultural Research Center

Initiated country operations in the fields of agriculture, integrated conservation and development and emergency response.

As head of the ANR unit responsible for guiding CARE's 33 country - 130 project agriculture and natural resources portfolio.

Re-designed forestry project in the North West of Haiti and started a watershed management project in the center of the country.

Worked with project team to introduce agroforestry to women's groups and primary schools. Agroforestry, energy, nurseries, community participation, argiculture.

On-farm research on diagnosis and design in agroforestry.