Mr. R.A. Wilkins

Mr. Wilkins has been a member of the Guyana National Committee of ICID since 1958 and Chairman since 1962. His international involvement has been extensive, advising on agricultural and water resource development in Nigeria, Barbados, Zambia, Rhodesia and Brazil. He has presented a number of papers on water control. He was a member of AGU, American Society of Photogrammetry, Fellow of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping and member of the International Society of Sugarcane Technologists. He has been responsible for the complete rehabilitation of the water control system related to the sugar industry to Guyana. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1946 and awarded an O.B.E. in 1964 for services to water resource development. He was Vice President of ICID from 1976-1979.