Tony Allan
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To all who knew him, Tony Allan was a humble, kind and generous individual. Professor Tony Allan was an eminent scholar, most noted for his pioneering work on virtual water. He had a long and established career at the School of Oriental and African Studies and most recently at King’s College London. He was a true interdisciplinarian, starting his career as a physical geographer making a mark since the 1960s with extensive studies of Libya and working at the cutting edge of remote sensing. He was a prominent expert on the Middle East and North African region. He later engaged deeply and enthusiastically with the politics and policy of water resources management, which led to the ground-breaking work identifying the significance and role of water embedded in production and consumption. He also created and led the London Water Research Group, an inclusive and intercollegiate network of thinkers. He pushed those attending the numerous informal seminars and workshops to be more critical and better communicators. Tony received the highly prestigious Stockholm Water Prize in 2008 as well as the Florence Monito Water Prize in 2013 and the Monaco Water Prize in 2013. His curiosity and research was unstoppable, producing several classic texts, including the Middle East Water Question (2001), Virtual Water: Tackling the Threat to Our Planet's Most Precious Resource (2011) and The Oxford Handbook of Food, Water and Society (2019). He devoted many decades to research, education and communication, inspiring generations of students, academics, activists, artists, farmers and professionals across the world. Tony was a singular figure remembered for his extraordinary dedication, integrity, creativity, hard work, and courage.
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Pupathy
I just knew who is Dr Tony Alan, and it my great regret to know him after his death. I appreciate his work on water crisis and similarly to his finding, we also carry out water usage study on oil palm. About 1000 kg of water is used for making one kilo of oil in oil palm.
Catalina Silva-Plata
After 7 months of his death, I read in the news today that Prof Tony Allan passed away in April of this year. He inspired my PhD research, which was in the topics of Virtual Water and Waterfootprint, he was also the external examiner of my thesis, from King's College London and SOAS. Arjen Hoekstra, another great author about the topic also passed away in 2019. I'll do my best to keep their legacy and will be forever grateful to Prof Allan, which awarded my thesis with minor corrections, for all of you who are not aware of the PhD qualification system in the UK, it is one of the highest marks a thesis can get. It's very sad news, but death is unavoidable by all of us who live. It is a mystery to all of us what happens after death, some say we go to heaven, others say that's it and we go nowhere, and others say our soul eventually reincarnates to keep its evolution. All I know is their legacy will remain forever in my mind and heart, so they'll keep living in my psyche and in the psyche of all of those they touched, which I'm sure are many. My deepest condolences to his family.
Munir (Nasser) Morad
Professor Tony Allan was a generous PhD supervisor, and an intellectual role model. As I discovered over the years as a doctoral supervisor (in the UK and New Zeeland), every supervisory experience is unique, and seldom ordinary. Aere perennius..
Richard Wiltshire
Goodbye Tony. The main thing was, the water wasn’t spilled between the cracks. It’s safe with others now. Time to rest.
Tim Richards
My sincere condolences to Mary, I am very sorry to hear of Tony’s passing. By great good fortune I spent two years as Tony’s research assistant in 1982/83, a time that set my career on the track it is still on and working on things that matter. Tony was unfailingly generous in his support both then and more recently. I am just sorry that I didn’t see more of him over the years.
Worku Damena
My deepest condolences. I knew professor Allan since May 1990 when I participated a Nile conference that he organized at SOAS. Then I used to visit him at his office at SOAS when I was studying at LSE. He was such a giant scholar. As Ethiopian, my colleagues and I benefitted so much from his vast knowledge and advice on issues related to the Nile waters. He was a good friend of my former boss Dr. Zewdie Abate, whom he helped in the publication of his book posthumously. Rest in perfect peace, professor. You have done so much good to the water scarce regions of the world by showing them how cooperation was possible.
Joppe Cramwinckel
My sincere condolences. I know Tony as a bright mind tossing around ideas! I had really stimulating discussions with him and I was shocked to hear he is not around anymore. The world has lost a great mind who advanced our thinking
John Connolly
So sorry to hear about the passing of Mr Allan and thinking of Mary at this time. I am glad that i had the good fortune to spend an hour or two chatting with him at 6a in November 2019 after not having seen him since I left London in 2008.
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