Lindsay Falvey

[5] During his initial degree, he took various in-term and vacation jobs, including labouring and mustering cattle at Douglas-Daly Experiment Station in the Northern Territory of Australia, while also taking a Methodist Local Preaching qualification with The Reverend Dr. A. Harold Wood at Deepdene Methodist Church.

Disrupted by Cyclone Tracy on Christmas Eve 1974, Falvey entered international development suited to his perceived vocation of research into farmers raising livestock as an alternative to growing opium in the northern Thailand highlands.

After five years Falvey joined a small commercial cooperative delivering international aid for rural development which became known as MPW Australia, of which he soon became Managing Director.

[1] With contributions from his professional colleagues, MPW grew into a sizeable consulting company which was eventually purchased by the Australian Securities Exchange listed Coffey International to become Coffey-MPW, of which he was Managing Director until 1993.

During this consulting period, he maintained an active academic interest and published regularly in scientific journals, while also working in some 20 countries.