Dr. George
Phiri is a biological and livelihoods scientist specializing in policy
analysis and institutional review for food security, biodiversity
conservation and resilient livelihood, natural resources management, with
special focus on critical issues in sustainable development and climate
change vulnerability and adaptation, development and implementation of
integrated management plans on invasive alien species and arthropod pests,
and knowledge management.
Dr. Phiri has previously worked for the
Government of Malawi as Chief Entomologist and has been on many international
and regional professional assignments that focused on sustainable rural
livelihoods, agricultural productivity, and natural resources management
research and development. The most
recent of these international assignments (2004-2007) was on the SADC
Biodiversity Support Programme which was implemented in 10 SADC Member
States and coordinated from Gaborone, Botswana where he served Technical
Advisor (Invasive Alien Species).
Dr. George Phiri’s professional motivation
is to provide strategic input, advocacy and facilitation to support
multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary processes-driven action-research
for sustainable development. His
professional purpose is to facilitate and champion processes that avail to
users science-based tools to develop skills in management, leadership,
knowledge, sustainable technologies and business acumen, especially among
the most vulnerable traditional communities living in changing, degraded
and fragile ecosystems. He strongly
believes that such tools must be complemented by appropriate institutional
arrangements and policies and practices that enhance their income,
adequate food and clean water access security and “ensure
sustainable environmental and natural resources management, and
biodiversity utilization and conservation”.
Dr. Phiri holds the degrees of PhD
(Interdisciplinary Ecology) (Reading, UK), MSc (Agricultural Biology)
(Ibadan, Nigeria), BSc (Agriculture) (Malawi) and Postgraduate Certificate
in Natural Resources Management (Cornell, USA). He is an active member of the Society of
Conservation Biology, Ecological Society of America and the Pesticides Association Network (PAN-Africa).
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