Professor Emeritus (John) Lindsay Falvey is engaged in professional and voluntary leadership roles based on his diverse career at senior levels in academia and the private sector in tens of countries. An international figure in research and education for agricultural development in poor countries and Australia, he is also known as an author, innovator and educational entrepreneur.
Awarded three doctorates: Ph.D., higher doctorate (D.Agr.Sc.) and an honorary Doctorate; he currently (2019) serves as: Chair of the Board of the International Livestock Research Institute, the world’s premier livestock research organisation for developing nations and one of the CGIAR green revolution centres; Chair of the selection panel of the World Prize for International Integrated Development, and also assists the international Ph.D. program of Thaksin University in southern Thailand among other voluntary roles. For nine years to 2018 he was Director of Hassad Australia Pty Ltd, a Qatari investment in Australia as the largest sheep and grain producer, and previously he was Dean of the (now) Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences and Chair of Agriculture, he was awarded Professor Emeritus status in the University of Melbourne, and holds honorary appointments at two Thai universities. Earlier he was CEO of the professional consulting groups MPW Rural Development Pty Ltd and Coffey-MPW Ltd for 13 years. Among his other interests, he has led or been part of more than 100 international advisory assignments for all major development agencies, founded private language colleges in three countries and published some 20 books and 100s of papers on subjects integrating science, agriculture, philosophy and religion.
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
University of Melbourne
Rockefeller Resident, Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy
Centenary Medal of the Government of Australia
Kitimisuk (honoured member), Agricultural Science Society of Thailand under the Patronage of HM the King
Rockefeller Resident, Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy
Councillor, Royal Agricultural Society
AAAC Award of Excellence, international agricultural development
Inaugural President's Award, Aust. Inst. Agric. Science
Australian Institute of Agricultural Science
FAIAS - Fellow of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science
FTSE - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
Credentials
Positions
Honorary
Agriculture And Food
Editorial, Advisory And Other
various other groups
Editorial Committee
International Buffalo Bulletin
Member, National Thai Studies Centre, Canberra
National Thai Studies Centre
Member, International Advisory Board Asian Journal Of Agri-History
International Advisory Board Asian Journal of Agri-History
Education
Honorary Doctorate Agriculture Technical
Thaksin University
[Higher] Doctorate Agricultural Science
University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy
The University of Queensland
Masters Agricultural Science
La Trobe University