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Dr Max Whitten was chief of the CSIRO's division of entomology from 1981 to 1995 and professor of genetics at the University of Melbourne from 1976 to 1981. He works as a consultant in Australia on public good research and with governments and farmers in Asia using local biodiversity to reduce dependency on pesticides.
