Tribute to first Director General of Bioversity International Professor Trevor Williams
It is with great sadness that Bioversity International announces the passing of Trevor Williams,who was instrumental in establishing a worldwide network of genebanks to ensure future food security.
It is with great sadness that Bioversity International announces the passing of Trevor Williams,who was instrumental in establishing a worldwide network of genebanks to ensure future food security. From 1974 to 1989, at the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR, now Bioversity International) he directed a programme of collecting, conserving and sharing the crop varieties that farmers had grown for centuries – the genetic resources needed for plant breeding and crop improvement.
Professor Trevor Williams - JT to his friends - passed away on the 30th of March, 2015 and will be greatly missed by family, friends and colleagues around the world.
Read Trevor Williams' obituary published by The Telegraph and a more extensive tribute in Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution - An International Journal.
Photo: left to right: Richard Lester (behind), Professor Ray Smallman, (Vice Principal), Mike Jackson, Brian Ford-Lloyd, Professor Jack Hawkes, Professor Jim Callow, Professor Trevor Williams. Courtesy of The Telegraph.