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Walter
S. Alhassan is the West and Central African Coordinator of ABSPII.
Prior to that he was the Director General of the Ghana Council for
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), a position he held for
9 years till retirement in 2002. Under consultancy assignment from
the FAO of the United Nations in 1999, Alhassan conducted extensive
studies on the status of biotechnology in Eastern, Western and Southern
Africa. Later in 2000 and 2002 he conducted more detailed studies
on the status and application of biotechnology in a cross- section
of countries in West and Central Africa within the CORAF mandate area. These studies were funded by the International Institute
of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the
United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Walter
Alhassan holds a Ph.D 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. |
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