Meine van Noordwijk

Scientist, World Agroforestry

Meine van Noordwijk is a Distinguished Research Fellow at World Agroforestry. He joined the
organization in 1993. For many years Dr van Noordwijk guided the global integration of the
Centre’s science and (co-)led ICRAF’s global research program on environmental services. He has
published on issues across a wide range of scales, from roots interacting with soil to global
environmental policies and their national implementation. He also is professor of agroforestry at
Wageningen University, The Netherlands. From 2002 to 2008 he was Regional Coordinator for
Southeast Asia. Before joining the Centre, Meine was a senior research officer in the Root
Ecology Section at the DLO Institute for Soil Fertility Research in Haren, the Netherlands,
concentrating on models of the relationships between soil fertility, nutrient use efficiency and root
development of crops and trees. He also worked for two years as a lecturer in botany and
ecology at the University of Juba in Sudan. Meine has a PhD in Agricultural Science from the
University of Wageningen, the Netherlands and an MSc in Biology from the Rijksuniversiteit
Utrecht, the Netherlands.