Paul Munro-Faure (Fitzwilliam 1974) led the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization’s Tenure work from 2000 until his retirement in 2017. Graduating in 1978, he was in the last year of Donald Denman’s tutelage of Land Economy before his retirement. Paul has pursued a career in development work, focusing on policies for land tenure and its management in the transitional and developing economies, and has practised as a Chartered Surveyor in the UK and other developed economies. Following his graduation, he went on to complete an MSc at Reading University and a PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

He was elected honorary life member of the Institute of Valuation and Estate Management of Fiji in 1981, the first since the institute’s foundation in 1955. He has been visiting professor at Oxford Brookes University and at the Royal Agricultural University; the former subsequently electing him to an honorary doctorate, DUniv, in 2002. Paul was awarded the title of Honorary Ambassador of the International Federation of Surveyors in 2017 and was the recipient of the RICS Barrett Medal in 2016. Paul was appointed OBE in the 2018 New Years Honours list.