User:Tiben01
I am an international manager based in IFAD Rome and now Dakar Senegal as Head of West Africa Regional Office. I am supporting Wikipedia for more than 15 years, and very happy now that I am heading to retirement to contribute more to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and improve my participation. I graduated Engineer in Tropical Agro-Economy from ISTOM, France (1987) and completed a Doctoral Programme in Human Geography from Sorbonne University, France (1988). In the late 80’s, I worked as a Project Manager in Bolivia and for the group AFVP in Western Mali. In the 90’s, I was the Regional Representative for West Africa with GRDR, an NGO specialised in migration and remittances. From 1995, as Project Manager in Cambodia with GRET (Research Group for Technological Exchange). I then became Development Advisor for UNDP Cambodia monitoring the CARERE reconstruction programme from 1996 to 1999. From 2000, I was Portfolio Manager with UNOPS office in Kenya supervising projects in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. Since I joined (International Fund for Agriculture Development) IFAD headquarter in 2004, I was a country programme manager successively in charge of Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Comoros, Seychelles and Madagascar and setting up the continental knowledge network IFADAfrica (45 countries). In October 2011, I moved to Asia division where I was successively in charge of Bhutan, Nepal, Thailand, Philippines, Laos, Cambodia and support the Farmers Organisations network in Asia-Pacific (20 countries, 25 millions farmers). From 2014 to 2016, I established the IFAD South East Asia/Mekong Hub covering 6 countries based in Hanoi and introducing IFAD to ASEAN policy dialogue groups. From 2016 to 2018, I came back to Rome headquarter covering Bangladesh the biggest IFAD portfolio (USD 200m)and ensuring the function of Knowledge Management officer for Asia Pacific division (IFADAsia platform). Mid 2018 I was appointed Regional Director of Western Africa Hub based in Dakar Senegal and covering 7 countries (12 projects, USD 500m) with a team of 25 people.