Archie Forbes

Archibald Peter Sturrock Forbes CBE (5 May 1913 – 27 January 1999) was a Scottish colonial officer who was the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperative Development in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).

His family moved to Scotland and he was educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh.

He studied for a BSc at the University of Edinburgh, then going on to Trinity College, Cambridge to take a Diploma in Agriculture, and finally the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad and Tobago (Trop Ag).

When Tanganyika achieved independence in 1963, he undertook consultancy work in Africa and Asia until 1978.

He consulted for the World Bank, the Food and Agricultural Organisation, the United Nations, Nordic Engineering and natural resources technology firms.