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Philip Thornton

Philip Thornton
Senior Scientist & Consultant, Livestock Systems & Impact Assessment
ILRI/ U. of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK

Philip Thornton graduated with a BSc (Hons) degree in Agriculture from Reading University and a PhD in Farm Management from Lincoln College, New Zealand. He spent three years as a Post-Doc at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Colombia, working on bioeconomic modelling of livestock production systems in Latin America, and then was based at the University of Edinburgh for three years working on crop and household modelling projects in Central America and southern Africa. In 1990, he joined the International Fertilizer Development Center in Alabama, and was involved in projects in various countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. He joined ILRI in 1996 and became Coordinator of the Systems Analysis and Impact Assessment Programme until 2002. Since then, he has been working mostly for ILRI based in Edinburgh, and he is also affiliated with the Institute of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Currently he is on the Board of Directors of the Soil Management CRSP and of ICASA, and he is Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Agricultural Systems.