Dr. Montague W. Demment brings extensive experience to Terra as the Associate Vice President for International Development at APLU, professor emeritus of ecology at the University of California, Davis, and former Director of the Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program, a program funded by USAID and the US university community. In his position at APLU, he was instrumental in creating APLU's Africa U.S. Higher Education Initiative, which advocated for higher education support in Africa. He also organized the process by which the research community provided input to the FTF strategy. Montague researches the nutritional ecology of herbivores and the nutrition of children in developing countries. He is the past president of AIARD (Association for Agriculture and Rural Development) and chaired the NASULGC's International Agriculture Coordinating Committee, which advocates for international issues in agriculture. Montague served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ethiopia. A native of New York, he earned his B.A. from Harvard in Architecture.