- Question
- What would an incursion and spread of FMD serotype SAT1 cost the region, and where should preparedness be funded first?
- My role
- Lead contributing author
- Method
- Cost-benefit analysis · Monte Carlo uncertainty · Market and trade analysis
- Scale
- 33 countries
- Output
- FAO Focus On No. 14 (June 2026)
- Decision supported
- Preparedness prioritisation and investment discussion at regional and country level.
- Original source
- FAO, 2026
Living CV
A career built across veterinary science, economics and global policy.
Explore the institutions, methods, diseases, countries and decisions that have shaped more than two decades of work.
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Years across science and policy
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Core analytical methods
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Countries with training delivered
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Edited CABI volumes
Career journey
Each milestone expands to show what the role involved, the methods it relied on and, where public, a piece of selected work.
How I solve a decision
The same seven steps sit behind almost every assignment — the methods change, the sequence rarely does.
- 01Define the decision
Who decides, on what budget, by when.
- 02Map disease and production systems
Epidemiology, value chains and exposure.
- 03Estimate burden and distributional effects
Who bears the losses, and where.
- 04Compare interventions
Costs, effects and feasibility, side by side.
- 05Model uncertainty and incentives
Ranges, not point estimates; behaviour, not assumptions.
- 06Build the investment case
Returns, sequencing and financing options.
- 07Communicate a decision-ready recommendation
One page a minister or board can act on.
Cost-benefit analysis
- What it answers
- Does the value created by an intervention exceed its full cost?
- When I use it
- When a government or funder must justify committing budget to a control programme.
- Example from my work
- Framing preparedness and vaccination investment in the FAO rapid economic impact assessment of FMD SAT1 in Asia and the Pacific.
Selected project explorer
Verified contributions drawn from published reports, edited volumes and coordination roles. Each entry links to its original public source where one exists.
9 of 9 projects
- Question
- How can livestock growth in the region be reconciled with climate, food security and public health objectives?
- My role
- Contributing author
- Method
- Partial-equilibrium analysis · Policy simulation
- Scale
- Regional, multi-country
- Output
- World Bank report (2026)
- Decision supported
- Policy sequencing options tailored to country development stage.
- Original source
- World Bank, 2026
- Question
- How would CAP reform and greening affect different farm types across the European farm population?
- My role
- Co-author
- Method
- Policy simulation · Bio-economic modelling · Partial-equilibrium analysis
- Scale
- 83,292 FADN farms, EU-wide
- Output
- JRC Science for Policy Report
- Decision supported
- Distributional assessment of CAP post-2013 options.
- Original source
- EC JRC
- Question
- Which bTB control strategies deliver most control per pound spent, and who carries the cost?
- My role
- Senior scientist and policy analyst
- Method
- Cost-effectiveness analysis · Bio-economic modelling
- Scale
- National (UK)
- Output
- Research and policy advice; invited keynote, Mycobacterium bovis Conference, Galway (2022)
- Decision supported
- Informed discussion of testing and herd-management options with UK administrations.
- Original source
- No single public document — see Publications and Talks.
- Question
- What is the economic case for alternative peste des petits ruminants vaccination strategies?
- My role
- Economist and coordinator (GF-TADs context)
- Method
- Cost-benefit analysis · Multicriteria analysis · Monte Carlo uncertainty
- Scale
- Multi-country
- Output
- Technical analysis and coordination outputs under GF-TADs
- Decision supported
- Comparison of vaccination options for national and regional strategies.
- Original source
- No single public document — see Publications and Talks.
- Question
- Where along the pig value chain do ASF losses fall, and which actors bear them?
- My role
- Economist and coordinator (GF-TADs context)
- Method
- Market and trade analysis · Bio-economic modelling
- Scale
- Regional
- Output
- Coordination and technical analysis under GF-TADs
- Decision supported
- Framing of control and compensation discussions across affected value chains.
- Original source
- No single public document — see Publications and Talks.
- Question
- What makes sustained investment in quality vaccines and diagnostics a rational decision?
- My role
- Speaker and contributing analyst
- Method
- Cost-benefit analysis · Market and trade analysis
- Scale
- International workshops and fora
- Output
- TAFS Forum workshop contribution — evaluation and use of FMD vaccines and diagnostics
- Decision supported
- Investment framing for vaccine and diagnostic programmes.
- Original source
- TAFS Forum
- Question
- How can welfare be measured, valued and built into policy and markets?
- My role
- Co-editor (with Dominic Moran and Rick D'Eath)
- Method
- Cost-benefit analysis · Multicriteria analysis
- Scale
- Edited volume, international contributors
- Output
- CABI, 2020
- Decision supported
- Reference framework for welfare in policy and subsidy design debates.
- Original source
- CABI, 2020
- Question
- How do breeding and animal health improvements change farm economics and greenhouse gas emissions?
- My role
- Senior scientist
- Method
- Bio-economic modelling · Policy simulation
- Scale
- EU and farm level
- Output
- JRC and SRUC research outputs
- Decision supported
- Evidence for mitigation options within agricultural policy analysis.
- Original source
- No single public document — see Publications and Talks.
Building capability beyond projects
Technical training delivered
- Uganda
- Sudan
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Iran
- Türkiye
- UAE
- Georgia
- Ethiopia
- Tunisia
- Nepal
- Thailand
Course development and tutoring
Development and tutoring of courses on socioeconomic impact assessment and on public-private partnerships in veterinary services.
EuFMD Open Session 2020
Scientific coordination of the 2020 EuFMD Open Session, involving more than 100 presentations and approximately 1,500 participants.
Selected student supervision
Details being compiledThis section will list supervised students once details are confirmed. The layout is ready for: student name, degree, university, year, dissertation topic and the resulting publication or current role.
Publications and ideas
A searchable timeline of work already listed on this site, 2004–2026. For the complete list, see Publications or Google Scholar.
- 2026 · Book
Foundations of Animal Health Investment: Shaping Global Strategies (lead editor, CABI Concise)
- 2026 · Report
Rapid economic impact assessment of FMD virus serotype SAT1 spread in Asia and the Pacific (FAO Focus On No. 14)
- 2026 · Report
Advancing Low Emission and Sustainable Livestock in the East Asia and Pacific Region (World Bank)
- 2025 · Conference
ISVEE 17 — Health policy and capacity building (oral presentation)
- 2025 · Conference
ISVEE 17 — Transboundary animal disease economics (contribution)
- 2020 · Book
The Economics of Farm Animal Welfare: Theory, Evidence and Policy (co-editor, CABI)
- 2018 · Report
IFM-CAP v.1 — EU-wide individual farm model for CAP analysis (JRC Science for Policy Report)
- 2016 · Book
Farm-level Modelling: Techniques, Applications and Policy (co-editor, CABI)
- 2007 · Thesis
PhD thesis — Agricultural economics and animal health policy, Wageningen University
- 2004 · Conference
Early conference contributions on animal health economics (from 2003–2004 onwards)
Entries reflect published work and public sources. Contributions are described by role and method; no claim is made that any specific policy was adopted as a result.