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Mr Aziz Elbehri is a US nationwide born in Morocco with over 30 years {of professional} expertise within the area of agricultural and financial growth, socio-economic and commerce analyses, and meals coverage. Aziz has a Ph.D. in Commerce and Growth from Purdue College, two grasp’s levels in agronomy and agricultural economics from the College of Minnesota, and an Ingenieur d’Etat diploma from the Institut Agronomique et Veterinaire Hassan II, Morocco.
Aziz served as an agricultural commerce economist with USDA Financial Analysis Service for ten years, specializing in US and European Union agricultural insurance policies. Since 2008, Aziz joined FAO as a senior economist specializing in Commerce and Growth and meals coverage points based mostly within the Commerce and Markets Division at FAO in Rome. In October 2018, Aziz transferred to Bangkok Regional Workplace and has been serving as Senior Financial and Group chief of the Socio-economic Coverage and Rural Growth Stream on the FAO Regional Workplace for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok. Aziz has a protracted monitor of excellence in agricultural coverage, analysis and analyses, and growth.
He has printed quite a few publications in peer-reviewed journal articles, particular FAO experiences, and chapters and edited a number of publications on commerce coverage, local weather change and meals safety, agricultural markets and worth chains, biofuels, gender economics, and extra. Aziz was the lead creator of the IPCC Particular Report on Local weather change and Land (issued in 2019).
Aziz has robust technical experience in agrifood programs and socio-economics, commerce and markets. Presently, Aziz is the lead technical coordinator for the FAO flagship Digital Village Initiative in Asia and Pacific and is main the regional work on socio-economic and rural growth, together with the digitalization of agrifood programs, regional commerce, commerce facilitation, and digital commerce within the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine disaster.
Throughout his profession, Aziz has lived, visited, and labored in 50 nations throughout all continents, together with North America (United States, Canada), Latin America (Ecuador, Chile, Columbia), West Africa (Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Ghana), East and Southern Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe), North Africa and the Close to East (Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon), Central Asia (Uzbekistan, I.R. Iran), South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India Nepal, Sri Lanka), South East Asia (Indonesia, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines), and East Asia (Mongolia, R. of Korea, China).
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