Dr Khoon Chin holds a BSc Hons degree in Agricultural Botany (Reading University, UK) and a PhD in Plant Pathology and Population Genetics (Cambridge, UK), as well as an MSc of USM, Malaysia. He has had a lifelong global career as a research and teaching phytopathologist, working for national and international institutions and for industry, in both the tropics and temperate regions. He was formerly a Bye-Fellow of Downing College UK, Visiting Scientist at the International Rice Research Institute ROP, lecturer at the Bern Fachhochschule for Agriculture (HAFL, CH), and an editor of Plant Pathology (Blackwells) Journal of the British Society of Plant Pathology. He has written well over a hundred publications in refereed journals and lectured widely as an invited/keynote speaker in international and national symposia in EU, USA, Asia and Latin America. He is also accredited to the Cynefin Center for research on complexity science and was for 8 years a consultant for complexity areas of business management for industry.