Dr Richard Markham

Dr Richard Markham is Research Program Manager for Pacific Crops. The Crop Sciences Program is divided into two parts, with Pacific Crops focusing on improving the productivity, profitability and sustainability of horticultural, root and tree crop-based farming systems in Papua New Guinea, selected Pacific Island countries and Australian.

Dr Markham, a British national, has worked in international research for development since his graduate student days 30 years ago. For the last 5 years Dr Markham has worked as a Program Director for the CGIAR centre, Bioversity International. In this position he led a large international scientific team across several continents focusing on commodity crops – especially bananas and plantains, cocoa and coconut - as a source of livelihoods for rural communities. Dr Markham's main research training and experience is in crop protection, however his research management responsibilities have covered germplasm conservation, crop protection, production, postharvest and marketing issues. His earlier career involved research and research management at IITA and he led the CGIAR System-wide Integrated Pest Management program for six years from 1995-2001, with involvement in both field and horticultural crops. For an 18 month period, Richard worked in science writing on research, agricultural, environmental and development issues. Dr Markham is based in Suva, Fiji.

Contact details

Phone: + 679 337 0733 ext 392 or + 679 337 9257
Email: markham [at] aciar [dot] gov [dot] au