Tony worked at IDRC from 1977 to 1986. In his own words:
“I was general assistant to the executive vice president of the International Development Research Centre while doing early research work on the network information system for Sahelian/Saharan French speaking West Africa. IDRC was a wonderful organization to work for, with a lot of flexibility in my work. I eventually became first the information officer for the organization and then the national conference coordinator. My role was to try to link Canadian research capacity to the research needs of the world.”