Gerard Sylvester is currently positioned as Knowledge and Information Management Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO, http://www.fao.org/) at its regional office for the Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok.

Project Development Officer. BSc Plant Sciences, PhD Physiological and molecular plant pathology. Areas of expertise: Plant biology research (physiology and molecular biology of plant-pathogen interactions, molecular diagnostics, use of genetic markers in plants); project development.