ILRI / Kenya / Official / POD

National staff appointments: Nairobi, June – September 2016

Leah Joyce Symekher joined the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) as the Capacity Development Officer in the CapDev Unit in June 2016. She will manage the fellowship program, undertake capacity development for ILRI projects and partners.  Leah joins ILRI after 10 years’ professional experience in instruction, training & development and research. Previously she worked at … Continue reading

Ethiopia / ILRI / Kenya / Official / POD

International staff appointments, July – September 2016

Dieter Josef Schillinger joined ILRI in September 2016 as Assistant Director General, Biosciences.  His responsibilities will include leading ILRI’s upstream research in animal and human health (including vaccines and diagnostics development), animal breeding and genetics, and feed resources development. He is a veterinarian with 30 years’ experience in the animal health industry that includes experience … Continue reading

Engineering / ILRI / Kenya / Official

Nairobi campus – new grounds maintenance provider

This is to introduce Evergreen Horticulture East Africa Ltd. as the new Grounds Maintenance provider for ILRI Nairobi campus with effect from November 1, 2016. Evergreen takes over from the incumbent, Farmline EA Ltd.  Some staff from Farmline have been retained by the new company for continuity and smooth transition.  The scope of services previously … Continue reading

Directorate / Ethiopia / ILRI / Kenya / Official

Peter Doherty videos on ILRI and its work

Peter Doherty, Australian Nobel Laureate, at the adoption of the FAO Declaration on Global Freedom from Rinderpest (photo credit: ©FAO/Alessandra Benedetti). Earlier this year, Peter Doherty, Nobel Prize Laureate for Physiology or Medicine–1996 agreed to become a patron of ILRI. He recently recorded six short video interviews about different dimensions of ILRI’s research: International livestock … Continue reading