Stuart joined the Bees Abroad Trustees Board in 2015 but has since retired.

He has 30 years experience in biological sciences gained both within the Veterinary Laboratories Agency and the pharmaceutical industry. His skills include project leadership and teaching, and his expertise is in parasitology and global research, development and registration of vaccines for livestock.

He has been a bee keeper since 2002 and was chairman of his local beekeeping branch in Canterbury, Kent, UK.

While working together with Roy Dyche in Uganda, Stuart supported 10 groups of women become beekeepers and also helped with the foundations of a local cooperative in order to help with better access to market.

He also kept a photographic journal which you can see here.