Trustees
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Peter Joseph Wood – OBE, MA, FIWSc, FICFor, FCFA
Peter Wood was trained in botany and forestry, is a Vice President of the Commonwealth Forestry Association and an adviser with the International Foundation for Science (Sweden) and TreeAid. He was formerly a Senior Forestry Adviser with the British Department for International Development, a research scientist in agroforestry with ICRAF and a lecturer in tropical forestry and development at the University of Oxford. He served for 12 years with the Forest Service of Tanzania as a research officer in silviculture and was head of timber utilisation research. He has 50 years experience of forestry, land use and development in most countries of sub-Saharan Africa, many States of India, the Middle East, Caribbean and Pacific and has often worked with development agencies including the World Bank and FAO. He is author/co author of many books and papers and since retirement he has focused particularly on agoforestry research and in dry zones of the tropics.
Deanna G. Donovan, D.Phil.(Oxon.)
Deanna is Environmental Economics Advisor at Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC). JNCC is the statutory adviser to UK Government on UK and international nature conservation. With a B.A. (Economics) and M. Sc. (Wildland Resources) from University of California, Berkeley (USA), and D. Phil. (Forestry) from University of Oxford (UK), Deanna Donovan has worked on forestry and development issues for nearly three decades. After a brief stint as urban forester in the San Francisco area, she left the USA for research in Nepal where in 1980 she met John Wyatt-Smith, then forestry advisor to the Government of Nepal. Moving in 1982 to Indonesia as Asia Regional Forestry Advisor for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), later she worked with various international development agencies as a consultant, then as research fellow at the East-West Center (Hawaii) for 9 years, eventually working in almost all countries in Asia. Most recently with UNESCO (Paris) she contributed to UN-Water’s second World Water Development Report. Throughout her career understanding the flow of and response to scientific information by policy makers as well as land managers has been a consistent thread.
Dr Nick Dunn
Nick Dunn is married to John Wyatt-Smith's daughter Joanna, and is a doctor, with a senior lecturer post at the medical school, Southampton. He is interested in the epidemiology of neurological degeneration and teaches clinical skills. In the past, he studied botany at Cambridge University, and maintains a keen interest in plants and trees.
Alan Lamb
Alan Lamb is married to John Wyatt-Smith’s daughter Philippa and is son of AFA Lamb who was a tropical forester for 40 years and was head of the tropical silviculture unit at the Commonwealth Forestry Institute, Oxford.
Alan is a self-employed consultant working with venture capital backed technology companies spun out of UK universities. Previously, having studied engineering science at Oxford University, he traveled extensively in Africa and Asia in his work as a civil engineer and continues to take a keen interest in conservation and renewable sources of energy.
