Prem Sharma
International Senior Advisor @FAO
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WORK HISTORY
International Senior Advisor @FAO
Presently leading Food Safety Program of FAO Bangladesh as its Senior Technical Adviser from Nov 2016 to April 2017. Earlier helped establish FAOs Operations teams and train FAO staff on PCM in Cairo/Egypt, Turkey, Tajikistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, from Feb 2012 to July 2014 as a short term consultant. In India, guided the design (Farmer Water School TA project for UP-DOA/World Bank), planning, implementation and operations of its program and wrote/made presentations on healthy soils for healthy lives, urban-peri urban agriculture, green house gas emissions from grasslands and their mitigation, desertification control etc, since May 2015-October 2015. In Nov. 2015, led the mid-term review of FAO Mongolia\'s country program, and in Dec 2015 helped RAP/FAO Bangkok manage its field program portfolio for Asia and Pacific region. In Jan and April 2016 worked as a member of World Bank supervisory mission for its UP Water Sector Restructuring Program Phase II as a Farmer Water School International Consultant. From Feb-March 2016 worked as a International Senior Emergency Operations Consultant for FAO Myanmar and in May-July 2016 worked as a Regional Advisor for RAP/FAO Bangkok to streamline its Country Support Group (CSG) responsible for its field program in Asia & Pacific.
EDUCATION
University of California, Davis
PhD, Water Resources Systems Engineering, 3.6/4
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
M. Tech, Soil and Water Conversation Engineering
G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, UP, India
B.Tech, Agricultural Engineering
ABOUT PREM SHARMA
Helping the world become free of hunger has been my life time\'s motto and dream for which I have worked all my life. I am sure I will see a world free of hunger and poverty in my lifetime. NRM, Water conservation and food security in addition to operations of all Agriculture related programs of FAO around the world have been my main contributions.
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