Dr Anni McLeod

 

Livestock economist and project management specialist

  SPECIALISATION:

Since 1982, Dr McLeod has worked as an agricultural economist, project manager and information systems specialist with PAN Livestock Services. She also has academic status at  the Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics Research Unit (VEERU) in the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development at The University of Reading. She spent over four years in Kenya and has undertaken numerous short-term consultancies for livestock development projects in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

As an advisor to the Socio-economics Division of the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) for four years, she gained considerable experience and knowledge of institutional development in a national research system, public delivery services and NGOs. She was a member of the working group preparing KARI’s corporate plan, the gender task force and the working group on participatory research as well as providing technical advice in economic analysis to the KARI livestock research programme.

Her work in livestock economics began in Ethiopia when she was retained by ILRI to develop an economic model of mastitis based on data from state dairy farms. She has carried out economic analyses of rinderpest control, East Coast Fever immunisation and livestock projects. She teaches project evaluation and farm economics on the VEERU courses and supervises PhD students researching the economics of interventions in a variety of livestock systems worldwide.

Dr McLeod also co-ordinates VEERU’s courses in Livestock Project planning and Management and teaches participatory project planning and skills for project managers. Between 1995 and 1997 she advised FARM-Africa projects on results-oriented management and the development of participatory monitoring systems.