Chartered Accountant . Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland . Admitted 1974.
Director of Finance and Administration at IFPRI since November 2001. Previously Director of Finance , Chief operating Officer, at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), SriLanka, 1996 to 2001.
Director of Finance International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nigeria, 1989 -1996.
Worked in Irealnd with PriceWaterhouse as manager/senior manager for ten years and also with KPMG in Zambia.