Welcome to Chloroplast Consulting

Building on a diversity of experience, interest and expertise, over a 40-year career in Research, Business and Management,
​I am pleased to offer my services.

What I can help with and advise on

• Innovation for agricultural development: genetics, agronomy, farming systems, sustainable intensification
• Crop genetics, plant breeding, seed systems
• Plant biology and biotechnology research
• Intellectual Property: identification and management
• From Innovation to Applications: impact pathways, commercialisation​

Possible missions​​

• Review research and development project proposals
• ​Support project development, impact pathway design, partnership and collaborations
• Review projects' progress: in the field and through reports
• Review and edit scientific publications
• ​Board membership in tech companies, seed companies and not for profit organisations
• Missions can be delivered in English or French as required

About me

I was for the past 13 years Research Program Manager for Crops at the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), in charge of designing, contracting, monitoring and managing a portfolio of research projects for agricultural development in Eastern and Southern Africa, South and South East Asia and Timor Leste, with an annual budget of AUD 6 M.
Prior to ACIAR I had responsibilities in research, management and business development, in start up tech company Diversity Arrays Technology Pty Limited, in French multinational seed company Limagrain, and in French public research organisation INRAE.
Past Board membership: Private company Gene Shears; Cooperative Research Centre for Plant Science; Not for Profit Pedal Power ACT.