Anthony Whitbread
Program Director, Livestock, Climate and Environment (LCE)
Prof. Dr. Anthony Whitbread works for the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) as Director of the Livestock, Climate, Environment (LCE) Program. ILRI is the only CGIAR centre focusing on livestock systems and their role in smallholder development. The LCE team works across the topics of climate adaptation and mitigation in crop-livestock and pastoral systems across Asia and Africa. Prior to joining ILRI, Anthony was the Director for ICRISAT‘s systems work based in India (2014-2019) and Tanzania 2020-2022. His role in the CGIAR was preceded by a long research career in the crop-livestock systems of semi-arid Australia, SE Asia and Southern Africa with CSIRO Australia and as a Professor (W3) of Crop Production Systems in the Tropics at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany. Anthony’s expertise covers agronomy and soil science, farm systems analysis, crop modelling, climate risk management, forage and pasture systems, spatial analysis, digital agriculture all focused on research for development in smallholder farming systems. He maintains science credibility as a highly citated author and educator and remains affiliated with the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany and the University of Western Australia. He holds a B.Rur Sc.(Hons) and a PhD in Soil Science and Agronomy (1997) from the University of New England, Australia, where he is also the 2024 distinguished Alumni.
