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Biography
Management ~ Walter Alhassan
Dr. Walter S. Alhassan is the West and Central African Coordinator of the Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project II (ABSPII) as well as the sub-region’s coordinator of the Programme for Biosafety Systems (PBS). He is the former Director-General of the Ghana Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), a position he held for 9 years till retirement in 2002. Dr. Walter S. Alhassan, under consultancy assignment from the FAO of the United Nations in 1999, conducted extensive studies on the status of agricultural biotechnology in Eastern, Western and Southern Africa. Later in 2000 and 2002 he conducted more detailed studies on the status and application of agro-biotechnology in a cross section of countries in West and Central Africa within the CORA/ WECARD (West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development) mandate area.
He rose to the position of full professor in
Animal Science and Dean of Agriculture at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University in Bauchi, Nigeria in 1990. Dr. Alhassan holds a PhD in Animal and Poultry Science from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada and the Masters in Dairy Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. His undergraduate training in Tropical Agriculture was in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Scienceand Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. Dr. Alhassan is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.