Team

RHoMIS is administered by a small team working for the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Read below for more information on these individuals. 

The RHoMIS system is also  supported by a global community of practice, made up of researchers and data analysts, NGOs and institutions. You can read about the broader work of this community here. 
The RHoMIS team can be contacted here.
Dr. Jim Hammond
Jim has worked for ten years in sustainable development and agricultural systems, his work focussing on how the configuration of farms and the choices made by farmers impact upon food security, prosperity, and sustainability. Jim likes to build user-friendly digital research tools, to be used for data collection, foot-printing, and decision support; he co-authored the RHoMIS household survey tool.

Jim has an inter-disciplinary background ranging from environmental science to social anthropology, and draws upon these diverse perspectives in his work. Jim is employed as a post-doctoral scientist by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), and previously worked for the International Centre for Research in Agro-Forestry (ICRAF), and for the University of Edinburgh. He has worked in western Europe, south east Asia and China, Latin America, and in various countries of sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr. Mark van Wijk
Mark is senior scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and is currently based in Quito, Ecuador. He has 15 years of experience working on both fundamental and applied research in agro-ecosystems across the world.

​His research focuses on interactions between (agro)ecosystems and the environment and combines empirical and theoretical analyses, and this work was executed in many multi-partner projects. He has previously done household level analyses work for the Livestock and Fish, Climate Change and Food Security and HumidTropics CRPs. 
Dan Milner
Dan has 10 years experience working as an economist in both the public and private sector. He now works for the RHoMIS team in Bristol, UK, processing and analysing household survey data to provide insight. His areas of research interest are spatial statistics and the impact of geography on development outcomes.  

After graduating from Liverpool University with a BA in Economic Geography, Dan completed an MSc in Economics and worked as an economist for a large infrastructure consultancy producing development strategies and infrastructure needs assessments, both in the UK and globally. In 2016, Dan returned to academia part-time to complete an MSc in Environmental Policy and Management at Bristol University.
Léo Gorman
Léo has been working in the Bristol office developing the ‘back end’ of the RHoMIS system. His jobs mainly involves cleaning, analysing and reporting on RHoMIS data. From 2019 he has been working on his PhD, which you can read more about here.

Léo has an undergraduate degree in Physics and a masters in International Development, both from the University of Bristol. His Physics degree taught him the fundamentals of data-analysis and computing which he now uses for his work with RHoMIS. He is new to the world of smallholder agriculture, however, he hopes that his studentship (beginning in October 2019) will allow him to develop his understanding of the field and maximise the usability and impact of RHoMIS data (he is open to ideas so do not hesitate to contact him!).