Dr Peter S. Turay is an experienced Agronomist-Consultant, Environmentalist and Educator with specialist background in tropical agriculture, forestry and food security. As an integrated natural resources management expert, he is also experienced in climate change and environmental management, including impact assessments. With over 30 years of experience, he is the Agrienviron Group’s Founder, Director & CEO that passionately advocates for restoring and optimising the natural environment’s potential for sustainable economic and social wellbeing of communities in all ecosystems.

He has delivered senior consultancy and practitioner roles within the agri-environmental and education sectors, predominantly in the UK, Europe and Africa. This includes work for the Government of Sierra Leone as technical adviser for the overhaul of the agriculture, forestry and food security sectors (2009-2010) and the execution of the REDD programme (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation – 2010 -2012); assistant lecturer in Crop production after successfully attaining his PhD in Agriculture (September, 1988) from Friendship University in Moscow, Russia; and a dedicated team member of the African Group of Negotiators on Climate policy for Africa in the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change).

Dr Turay possesses a vast wealth of research, development and project management skills gained from national and international work with governmental and private organisations in Angola, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the USA.

As an experienced Sustainable Development and Integrated Natural Resources Expert and Tutor with a demonstrated history of working in the agri-environmental services industry.

Skilled in Sustainable Development, Environmental Issues, Biodiversity, Environmental Awareness, and Natural Resource Management, he holds a PhD and MSc in Agriculture/Agronomy with a specialism in tropical crop production and soil management - from the Peoples Friendship University in Moscow, Russia. He is also the 2019 Semi-Finalist of the MIT's/Climate-Colab's Climate Change Development Pathways for developing countries competition, holding extensive postdoc experience in Climate Science (Global Carbon Fluxes) and Agro-Forestry at Kings College London and the Soil Science Department of Reading University, respectively.

He has worked as a SEDF/UNDP sponsored technical adviser to the government of Sierra Leone and served as a honourary advisor to the Coalition for Rainforest Nations (153 nations) in the UNFCCC process where he contributed greatly to the shaping of REDD+ policy. As a formidable climate negotiator, Dr Turay has also served as a member of the delegations of some Least Developed Countries in the global climate change summits.

He was a member of the African Group of Negotiators in the UNFCCC Process from 2009 - 2012. He is also a strong education professional with a PGCE (FE) focused in Education, Teaching and Training from the University of Greenwich.

He founded AGRIENVIRON as a sole trader in 1993 while working as Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Kings College London and had the firm incorporated in 2004 as a limited liability company.