Louise Fresco Biography

Louise Fresco did her MSc research in Zambia and immediately upon graduation left for more than two years in Papua New Guinea as a UN Volunteer. Further extensive periods in developing countries often in very remote areas would follow: over four years in Zaire then to the Central African Republic various countries in West Africa and extensive periods in Central and Latin America including the Amazon in the early 1990s. She returned to her alma mater Wageningen University with a wealth of field experience and the conviction that issues of food nutrition environment and economic development needed to be tackled in a comprehensive manner. She obtained her PhD cum laude (the first woman to obtain a PhD in tropical agronomy at Wageningen) and moved quickly in the university hierarchy to become full professor and chair of the Wageningen department of agronomy at the age of 39. She was also instrumental in the renewal of the Wageningen curriculum introducing many interdisciplinary course elements - she was for example one of the leaders of highly acclaimed interdisciplinary field work on land use changes for international students in Spain. During the same period in the Netherlands she became increasingly involved in bridging the gap between academia and policy chairing the National Council for Environmental and Nature Research and participating in many national committees on science and education policy (e.g. committee on Life Long Learning).

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