Jimmy Pittchar is a Social Scientist. His research interests interface natural and social sciences, translating bio-sciences into sustainable development of agricultural systems, resilient food systems and enabling sustainable impacts of scientific innovations. He conducts inter-disciplinary research on the development, adaptation and adoption of icipe’s push-pull technology (www.push-pull.net) in Africa.

He holds a Bsc degree in mathematics and computer science and a Masters degree in social science, specialising in mathematical modeling of human populations, biological and environmental processes driving them, their spatial organization and economic development. He has over 26 years’ international research, development and programme management experience gained as a researcher and lecturer at University of Nairobi and Adviser to the United Nations.