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| Members of Council - 2008-2009: |
Council is elected from among the members of the Society, and Council elects its own President. Members of Council normally serve for 3 years - the term can be extended to 6 if re-elected - and meet 4-5 times per year. The main function of Council is to decide on the topics and authors for the presentations at Meetings and Conferences, and also to oversee the running of the Society. Council appoints a Secretary to organise the Society's affairs.
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Hans Reuvers, President of the Society:
Hans Reuvers started his professional career at BASF in 1982 as a research chemist. Before joining BASF he was a scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for coal research at Mülheim-Ruhr/Germany. Dr. Reuvers holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in chemistry from the Catholic University of Nijmegen in The Netherlands and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Alberta, Canada, where he was an I W Killam scholar. Hans has 20 years experience in the engineering and operation of fertiliser plants.
At present he is production manager of the BASF specialty fertiliser production facilities in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Hans is the author of more than 40 technical publications on fertiliser technology, in particular on the environmental aspects of fertiliser production. He is a member of several task forces in the European Fertiliser Manufacturer's Association (EFMA).
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David Heather, Vice-President of the Society:
Having worked for the FMA and latterly AIC for some 26 years (and for several years as Secretary to the Fertiliser Society) David Heather has many years experience in the development of legislation; particularly in the area of fertiliser use, consumer protection, transport, safety, storage and trade. He has regular contact with Government Departments in the UK as well as the European Commission. He is active in the European forum on a wide range of fertiliser issues and has presented papers to a variety of audiences including four to the IFS.
Although now retired from AIC he continues to provide it, and others, with a consultancy service on a range of fertiliser issues. Prior to joining the FMA he worked in the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food (MAFF) where he was responsible for the UK Fertiliser Regulations and negotiations in Brussels on the introduction of the EEC Fertiliser Directive. He was awarded the OBE by the Queen for his contributions to the fertiliser industry.
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Johnny Johnston, Immediate Past President:
A.E. (Johnny) Johnston was Head of the Soils and Crop Production Division at Rothamsted Research prior to his retirement in 1989. He is now a Lawes Trust Senior Fellow at Rothamsted. He has wide ranging interests in many aspects of soil fertility and crop nutrition in different farming systems. In 1994 he received the International Crop Nutrition Award of the International Fertilizer Industries Association (IFA).
He is an Honorary Member of the Society and was awarded the Society's Francis New Medal in 1997. He has published widely in scientific journals and written articles for farmers and advisors. For the Society he has authored or co-authored 14 Proceedings which have been presented at Meetings and Conferences.
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Stan Denby:
Stan Denby has been involved in the practical side of the Fertiliser Industry for over 32 years. Initially with ICI Agriculture division (latterly ICI Fertilisers) and more recently with Carrs Agriculture Limited as Managing Director of the Fertiliser business, Stan is particularly interested in the efficient application and use of all inputs to improve overall nutrient management to ensure the profitability of farm businesses.
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Roger Dyson:
Roger Dyson is 57 years old and married with 3 children. After graduating from Loughborough University in 1974 with a BSc in Chemical Engineering he worked for 4 years for African Explosives and Chemical Industry as a process engineer involved in development of their coal synthesis complex in Sasolburg, South Africa. He joined UKF in 1979 as a Technologist at their Ince Site, Chester, UK and spent the next 23 years involved in all aspects of design, construction and operation of nitric acid, AN solution, AN prilling and NPK Complex Compound Fertiliser manufacturing plants. In 2001 Roger took on the role of Site Manager for the Ince manufacturing facilities until 2007 when he became Technical Manager on the formation of GrowHow UK Ltd, the newly formed JV between Yara and Terra Nitrogen.
Roger sits on the EFMA Technical, Environment and Safety Committee as GrowHow's representative. He has been a member of the IFS since 1980 and has previously served on Council.
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Ivan Galia:
Ivan Galia graduated from the Prague's Institute of Chemical Technology in the field of organic chemistry in 1970. He joined the North Bohemian Chemical Works at Lovosice, now Lovochemie, a.s., and progressed from the department of cord rayon research, via the analytical department, focused on AAS for 20 years, finally to the technology of fertilisers department.
In 2001 he officially joined the Research Institute of Inorganic Chemistry in Ústí n.L. but is still connected with the activities of Lovochemie, a.s., the biggest producer of fertilisers in the Czech Republic. Ivan is responsible for testing new types of fertilisers and their properties during storage, for finding new raw materials and agents (e.g. anti-caking agents). He has been a member of the IFS since 1999.
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Ernest Kirkby:
Ernest Kirkby is a graduate of the University of Durham (Kings College, Newcastle upon Tyne) and a native of the north-east of England. He is now Visiting Lecturer of the University of Leeds where he has devoted most of his academic life to the teaching and research of Plant Nutrition. In this University he also held the posts of Warden of Sadler Hall 1964-1983, then Warden of Devonshire Hall 1983-1996 and served as an elected member of Senate and Council. He has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Kentucky USA in 1979, and the University of Malta 1996 and was awarded The Leonard Slater Fellowship at University College University of Durham 1986-1987.
He is the author and co-author of numerous publications in Plant Nutrition but probably is most well known for his co-authorship with Professor Konrad Mengel of the University of Giessen Germany, of the highly respected text, Principles of Plant Nutrition, the fifth edition of which was published in 2001. He served as a long-standing member of the International Council on Plant Nutrition representing the UK and for many years as a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Plant Nutrition and Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis.
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Kevin Moran:
Kevin Moran obtained his PhD in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry from the University of London in 1974. After a short spell in teaching he joined Phosyn in 1978 as Technical Co-ordinator to develop the R&D, analytical and technical services to support the Company's micronutrient products mainly in Europe and North Africa, and subsequently worldwide.
Following the acquisition of Phosyn by Yara International in June 2006 he will maintain a global focus on the role of micronutrients and foliar fertilisers in agricultural production. Kevin has a number of scientific publications which focus mainly on the development of innovative micronutrient products as well as on Decision Support Systems for optimising the timing and types of applications in fertiliser programmes.
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Hash Navsaria:
Hash Navsaria graduated in Chemical Engineering and Management Economics from the University of Bradford in 1974. He joined Fisons Fertilisers directly from University and is now the Safety Manager for Yara International. Prior to his present position, he held various posts including Process Engineer, Process Control Engineer, Production Manager, HR and HESQ Manager and Operations Manager for Yara UK. In all his positions the 'human factor' has been of key interest and development in improving performance standards in productivity, quality and safety.
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Hans-Werner Olfs:
Hans-Werner Olfs studied agronomy and received a PhD in Plant Nutrition from the Institute for Plant Nutrition, Bonn University, Germany in 1992. As postdoc he coordinated R&D projects related to N turnover in the soil/plant system. In 1996 he started to work at the Institute for Plant Nutrition and Environmental Research Hanninghof, Yara's Agronomic R&D Centre in Duelmen, Germany. As Manager of Agronomic Research he was responsible for coordinating R&D projects for Yara's Sales Units around the world.
Since October 2005, Hans-Werner has been Professor for Plant Nutrition and Crop Production at the University of Applied Sciences in Osnabrueck, Germany. Hans-Werner is member of the German Society for Plant Nutrition and the German Soil Science Society. He is author or co-author of more than 60 scientific publications and acts as Associated Editor of the Journal for Plant Nutrition and Soil Science.
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John Peace:
John Peace joined the fertiliser world in 1969 with the sulphur distribution and grinding company, Seaton Chemical Developments Ltd. In 1985, with his wife Susan, he founded J & S Technical Services Ltd. Since then the company has grown both in product range and supplier base, operating worldwide with sulphur products from Asia, Canada, France, Saudi Arabia and the USA. Having sold his company in 2006, although remaining a director, he is now an independent consultant in sulphur handling, grinding and forming.
John is a Chartered Scientist, a Chartered Chemist. a Member of the Society of Chemical Industry and of the Royal Society of Chemistry, being also a Volunteer for their Benevolent Fund.
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Jaap Schröder:
Jaap Schröder is a senior researcher in the Agrosystems Department of Plant Research International, Wageningen University, The Netherlands. His work focuses on nutrient fluxes in arable and livestock production systems at scales ranging from fields to regions. Currently he is involved in the definition of meaningful indicators for the environmental pressure of nutrients. As a spin-off from that work he is an active member of various working groups assessing the long-term impact of regulations on crop yields and environmental quality. The results of his work have been published in a substantial number of papers in international journals. The thread running through these papers is that the simultaneous need for food production and ecosystem quality will pose an ever greater number of challenges for producers and consumers of nutrients.
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Chris Dawson, Secretary to the Society:
Chris Dawson graduated from the University of Newcastle with a BSc in Agriculture in 1966, and then spent 6 years farming in Portugal. He returned to the UK in 1976 and joined a subsidiary of ICI Fertilizers, in a technical advisory capacity. When the company was closed in the restructuring of ICI in 1992 he was responsible for product marketing, and technical support and development for both liquid and solid fertilisers. Since that time he has operated his own consultancy to the fertiliser industry, taking on the job of Secretary to the Society in 1997.
Chris has been a Member of the Society since 1980, and served on Council from 1985 to 1990, and again from 1994-96. He was President in 1989 and has authored or co-authored seven Society Proceedings, the most recent being his Francis New Memorial Lecture, having been awarded the Society's Francis New Medal in 2008.
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