Advisory Board Member: Professor Michael G Petterson
Mike is a geoscientist, currently at Auckland University of Technology, NZ. He previously held Professorial/Senior Leadership positions at the British Geological Survey, University of Leicester, UK, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), and University of the South Pacific (Fiji). Much of Mike’s career has been involved with international development particularly in areas such as institutional strengthening, capacity building, training & education, & technical geoscience. Experience in South & Central Asia, the Pacific Islands and the Caribbean/South America has provided firm foundations for the accrual of knowledge in ‘interconnected geoscience’: how geoscience alongside other disciplines, with appropriate world views, can add the greatest value to development-related interventions.