Project Development Director. B.Sc. Biochemistry; M.Sc. Forestry & its Relation to Land Management. Areas of expertise: Tropical agroforestry research; extension methods and scaling up of research outputs; research management and project development.

Simone R. Sterly (maiden name Schiller) has an MSc. in Agricultural Sciences. She has over fifteen years of professional experience in research, project management, consulting and in development cooperation. Her focus is on sustainability of agriculture and rural development applying methods of transdisciplinary research, scenario development and policy analysis.

Ann is an agricultural information specialist in Queensland, Australia having worked for almost 30- years in extension agronomy and agricultural communications, extension and learning, and information systems. She has consulted to agricultural organisations in communications strategies. She is a researcher at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba, Australia researching information use and on-farm decisions, information and digital literacies, rural and regional development.