Anthony Whitbread is ILRI's Program Leader for the Livestock, Climate, Environment (LCE) program based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Prior to this, he was the Research Program Leader for ICRISAT‘s Resilient Dryland Systems program based in India and Tanzania 2014-2022. 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, forages, farm systems analysis, crop modelling, climate risk management, spatial analysis all focused on research for development in smallholder farming systems. He maintains high science credibility as a highly citated author, and as an educator, being the supervisor of several postdocs and PhD students through roles as Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia and continuing supervisory roles at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany. He holds a B.Rur Sc.,(Hons) and a PhD from the University of New England, Australia in Soil Science and Agronomy (1997).
