Curriculum vitae

Koppert, Georgius Johannes Adrianus

Place and date of birth Zoetermeer, April 16, 1950

Nationality Dutch

Marital status married, 5 children

Address Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 4 Avenue du Petit Château, 91800 Brunoy France. phone +33 (0) 1.60.47.92.09 / fax +33 (0) 1.60.46.57.19

Relevant Education

1988 Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Aix-Marseille, France

<Alimentation et Culture chez les Tamang, Ghale et Kami du Népal< ; (Food and culture among the Tamang, Ghale et Kami of Nepal)

1981 Doctoral "Human Nutrition" Agricultural University of Wageningen, Netherlands

1980 University of Pau (France). "Licence" Mathematics Applied to Social Sciences

Fieldwork

1992-present Regular fieldwork in Cameroon (among the Tikar, and the Medzan & Baka pygmies)

1993 1 month energy expenditure of every day activities of women in Rwanda.

1984-1992 8 years Food Anthropology in Cameroon with Orstom. Residence in Yaoundé, Centre for Nutrition, IMPM. (South: Yassa, Mvae, Bakola; North: Koma, Duupa, Massa; West: grassfields (Awing); Urban areas : Edéa, Mbandjock and Ngaoundéré)

1981-1983 15 months Nutritional Anthropology in the Middle Hills of Nepal (with CNRS, Paris)

1980-81 6 months food consumption survey, anthropometry, anthropology and demography among the Massa and Musey of North Cameroon

1976 11 months food consumption survey, anthropometry and anthropology among the Massa and Musey of North Cameroon

Current position

Visiting Professor at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Brunoy, Paris (1996)

Visiting Researcher at Orstom (French Institute for Overseas Scientific Research) from July 1, 1988 to June 30, 1993.

Free lance researcher for Orstom and Cnrs

Expertise

- Measurement of food consumption (individual and family level)

- Nutritional anthropometry

- Socio-cultural surveys

- Time-budget study and energy expenditure measurement

- Data analysis of above surveys with specially developed programs where necessary

- training in statistics and computer use

- World Bank Expertise Mission on the Nutritional Status of Cameroonian populations

- Languages : Dutch-English-French-German fluently

- expertise missions for the World Bank to Cameroon (2 months) and Burkina Faso (6 weeks)