Mike's CURRICULUM VITAE

• Family name MEREDITH
• Given names MICHAEL EDWARD
• Male; unmarried; born 19 July 1943 at Hereford, England
• British nationality
• UK contact address: Merrivale, Allensmore, HEREFORD HR2 9AS, England Fax: + 44 1981 550506
• Current project address: Wildlife Conservation Society, 7 Jalan Ridgeway, 93200 KUCHING, Malaysia
  Fax: +60 82 252799
• e-mail: meredith@easynet.co.uk

• MA(Cantab), Cambridge University, BA(Hons) course in Natural Sciences 1962-65, MA 1969
• PGCE, Postgraduate Certificate in Education, Birmingham University School of Education, 1966 - 67
• MBA (Dunelm), Master of Business Administration, Durham University Business School Distance Learning Programme, 1992 - 95
• MSc in Environmental Management, Wye College External Programme, London University, 1996-2000
• AIL, Associate of the Institute of Linguists, 1994: fluent in French; adequate command of German and Malay (the official language of Malaysia and Indonesia); some Lao.

• From February 2003 Wildlife Conservation Society in Sarawak, Malaysia, assisting with the work of the WCS Malaysia programme related to protected area management.
• January 2001-July 2002 Lincoln University in Sarawak, Malaysia, Programme Coordinator for the LU Certificate in Conservation and Ecotourism Management run for staff of the National Parks and Wildlife Division of Forestry Department.
• 1998 September - 2000 December Wildlife Conservation Society in Sarawak, Malaysia, working with National Parks and Wildlife Division as Training Coordinator.
• 1995 January - 1998 August Wildlife Conservation Society in Lao PDR, establishing a community-based conservation management programme for protected areas in the north-west of the country.
• 1995 July - September (Short term consultancy) WWF Madagascar, advising on management and tourism development in the caves of the Ankarana reserve
  Report:
  • "L'exploitation touristique des grottes de la Réserve spéciale de l'Ankarana, Madagascar"
• 1995 February - March (Short term consultancy) Wildlife Conservation Society contracted to TEAM Consultants, preparing a preliminary management plan for a reserve affected by a hydropower project in Lao PDR.
  Report:
  • "Preliminary management plan for Nakai Nam Theun National Biodiversity Conservation Area, Lao PDR"
• 1994 June - November (Short term consultancy) Lyon Equipment, a British importer and distributor of specialist risk sport equipment, an overall review of management.
  Report and MBA dissertation:
  • "Strategy and decision-making in a small, growing business"
• 1991 July - 1994 March Wildlife Conservation Society, prepare management plans for new National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries in Sabah and Sarawak, Malaysia.
  Reports:
  • "A faunal survey of Batang Ai National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia",
  • "Draft management plan for Batang Ai National Park, 1993-95",
  • "Wildlife management plan for the Lower Kinabatangan Basin, Sabah, Malaysia"
• 1990 January - 1991 February Tropical Adventure (Malaysia), nature tourism and travel consultancy work
• 1986 October - 1989 December Sarawak Government, Development Officer at Mulu National Park, Malaysia.
  Confidential case study for National Conservation Strategy (1992):
  • "National park development: A case study of Mulu National Park"
• 1985 May - 1986 August Centre for British Teachers, teaching English in an elite secondary school in Malaysia
• 1981 - 85 Petzl Sarl (France), developing foreign markets for specialised safety equipment for caving and mountaineering
• 1977 - 80 Kaufmann (Austria), developing sales network for Petzl in Austria
• 1974 - 77 Inlingua School (France), teaching English for Specific Purposes - mainly engineering
• 1970 - 74 National Caving Centre (UK), Chief Instructor and Deputy Director
• 1967 - 70 Burnley Education Committee (UK), teaching science
• 1965 - 66 Birmingham Education Committee (UK), teaching English to Asian immigrant children

• "Vertical Caving" (1980 in French, later in English, Spanish, Italian and German): a primer of caving techniques
• "Giant Caves of Borneo" (1992, with Jerry Wooldridge and Ben Lyon): an interpretative work on the caves of Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia
• "A Faunal Survey of the Batang Ai National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia" (1995) Sarawak Museum Journal No.69 (New Series) pp 133-155.