Stephen Carr

Stephen Carr was educated in the Argentine prior to attending London University's Wye College. He joined the Church Missionary Society in 1951 and worked in Nigeria, Sudan and Uganda where he lived as a member of African village society.

In 1973 he was appointed as Director of Agriculture in the government of the Southern Sudan and moved on to become an agricultural advisor to the Prime Minister's Office in Tanzania. He was recruited by the World Bank in 1978 and after service in Eastern and Western Africa was appointed as Principal Agriculturalist covering all of subsaharan Africa.

Stephen retired to Malawi in 1989 where he has been instrumental in developing a range of policies and initiatives to benefit small-scale farmers. He was awarded the Royal Africa Society's annual medal for 'dedicated services to Africa' in 1972 and the Order of The British Empire in 1977.