About Our Associates - Julian Entwistle

Dr. Julian Entwistle uses his wealth
of technical knowledge and business management experience from over 20 years’
working as a professional entomologist in pest management and international
marketing of pest control products, to support and develop Xenex Associates’
international consultancy in the vector management market.
Julian is an Oxford University
Zoology graduate, with an MSc in Applied Entomology from Imperial College
London and a PhD from the University of East Anglia in forecasting insect
outbreaks. He joined ICI Agrochemicals in 1988 and led the worldwide Public
Health global insecticide Research and Development team. This involved
management of laboratory entomology teams, coordinating insecticide chemistry,
insect physiology and insecticide resistance studies, collaboration with
research institutions worldwide and management of international field trials on
the major public health insect pests.
Julian has experience as Technical Manager for
all non-crop uses of pesticides. He was responsible for the introduction
of a portfolio of insecticide and rodenticide products and the technical
support function for vector control campaigns, pest management and retail
businesses throughout Latin America. In addition, he has managed large-scale
trials on vectors of malaria and other diseases and collaborated with national
distributors, Ministries of Health and local research institutions. He is
a member of the IVCC Expert Scientific Advisory Committee on new paradigms for
control of malaria vectors and author of numerous scientific publications and
articles including the chapter on “Emerging Technologies for Urban Mosquito
Management’ in the 2014 CABI book on Urban Insect Pests.
Julian gained an MBA from the Open
University Business School and has held management and consultancy roles in the
international financial services industry in a company developing a novel waste
disposal technology.
Email him at Julian@XenexAssociates.com