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Senior Staff (As of 31 December 2001)

SYRIA (Aleppo: Headquarters)

Director General’s Office
Prof. Dr Adel El-Beltagy, Director General
Dr Mohan C. Saxena, Assistant Director General (At-Large)
Dr Mahmoud B. El-Solh, Assistant Director General (International Cooperation)
Dr William Erskine, Assistant Director General (Research)
Dr John Dodds, Special Advisor
Dr Elizabeth Bailey, Project Officer
Mr Vijay Sridharan, Internal Auditor
Ms Houda Nourallah, Administrative Officer to the Director General and Board of Trustees

Administration
Mr Michel Valat, Director of Administration and Personnel Services

Government Liaison
Dr Faisal Maya, Director of the Office of Government Liaison
Dr Nour-Eddine Mona, Consultant

Finance
Mr Carlos Nino Neira Ramos, Director of Finance
Mr Ahmed El-Shennawy, Associate Director of Finance
Mr Mohamed Samman, Treasury Supervisor

Natural Resource Management Program
Dr Richard Thomas, Director of NRMP
Dr Aden Aw-Hassan, Agricultural Economist
Dr Mustapha Bounejmate, Forage and Feed Legumes Production Specialist
Dr Adriana Bruggeman, Agriculture Hydrology Specialist
Dr Eddy DePauw, Agroclimatologist
Dr Luis Iñiguez, Senior Small-Ruminant Scientist
Dr Hiroaki Nishikawa, Honorary Consultant (Animal Parasitology)
Dr Brien Edward Norton, Range Management Scientist
Dr Theib Oweis, Water Management/Supplemental Irrigation Specialist
Dr Mustafa Pala, Wheat-based Systems Agronomist
Dr John Ryan, Soil Fertility Specialist
Dr Abdul Bari Salkini, Agricultural Economist/Liaison Scientist
Dr Akhtar Ali, Water and Soil Engineer
Dr Ahmed Mazid, Agricultural Economist
Dr Malika Martini Abdelali, Research Associate, Socioeconomics and Gender Analysis
Ms Azusa Fukuki, Research Associate, Antropology
Dr Safouh Rihawi, Research Associate, Animal Nutrition
Ms Monika Zaklouta, Research Associate, Animal Nutrition
Dr Sota Kobayashi, Associate Expert, (JICA), Animal Health
Dr Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Associate Expert, (JICA), Animal Health
Mr David Celis, Junior Professional Officer, Agroecological characterization
Ms Birgitte Larsen Hartwell, Junior Professional Officer. Animal Science
Mr Kristof Scheldman, Junior Professional Officer, Agroecological characterization
Ms Inger Waldhauer, Junior Professional Officer, Animal Science
Ms Shibani Ghosh, Research Fellow, Human Nutrition
Ms Rahmouna Khelifi-Touhami, Research Fellow, Social Science
Dr Ahmed Yousif Hachum, Water Management Consultant
Mr Roberto Telleria Juarez, Consultant Socioeconomist
Dr Hiroaki Nishikawa,Honorory Consultant (JICA), Animal Parasitology

Germplasm Program
Dr Thomas Blake, Director of GP
Dr Osman Abdalla El Nour, Breeder/Pathologist (seconded from CIMMYT for CIMMYT/ICARDA wheat program)
Dr Ali M. Abd El-Moneim, Forage Legume Breeder
Dr Michael Baum, Senior Biotechnologist
Dr Bassam Bayaa, Consultant Lentil Pathologist
Dr Salvatore Ceccarelli, Barley Breeder
Dr Wafa Choumane, Consultant Biotechnologist
Dr Mustapha El-Bouhssini, Entomologist
Dr Stefania Grando, Barley Breeder
Dr Khaled Makkouk, Plant Virologist
Dr Rajinder Singh Malhotra, Senior Chickpea Breeder
Dr Miloudi Nachit, Durum Wheat Breeder (seconded from CIMMYT for CIMMYT/ICARDA wheat program)
Dr Ashutosh Sarker, Lentil Breeder
Dr Khalil Shaaban, Consultant Faba Bean Breeder
Dr Amor Yahyaoui, Senior Cereal Pathologist
Dr Majid Khlaif Al-Kummer, Visiting Scientist
Dr Moussa Guirgis Mosaad, Visiting Scientist Coordinator, ICARDA/Turkey Activities
Dr Bruce Parker, Visiting Scientist (Entomology)
Dr M. Sripada Udupa, Biotechnologist
Dr Bruno Schill, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Faba Bean Breeder
Mr Fadel Al-Afandi, Research Associate
Mr Takahiro Sato, Visiting Research Associate (JICA)
Ms Aixa Del Greco, Junior Professional Officer
Ms Ismahane El-Ouafi, Research Fellow
Ms Bianca van Dorrestein, Research Fellow
Ms Elena Iacono, Research Fellow
Ms Daniela Mongione, Visiting Research Fellow

Genetic Resources Unit
Dr Jan Valkoun, Head
Dr Ahmed El-Ahmed, Consultant Seed Pathologist
Dr Kamel Chabane, Biotechnologist
Mr Jan Konopka, Germplasm Documentation Officer
Dr Kenneth Street, Associate Expert
Dr Siham Asaad, Research Associate
Mr Bilal Humeid, Research Associate

Seed Unit
Dr Samuel Bockari-Kugbei, Seed Economist and Acting Head
Mr Zewdie Bishaw, Assistant Seed Production Specialist
Mr Abdul Aziz Niane, Research Associate

Communication, Documentation, and Information Services
Dr Surendra Varma, Head
Mr David Abbass, Science Writer/Editor
Mr Moyomola Bolarin, Multimedia/Training Material
Specialist
Mr Nihad Maliha, Library and Information Services Manager

Human Resources Development Unit
Dr Samir El-Sebae Ahmed, Head
Mr Faik Bahhady, Consultant
Mr Mohamed A. Hamwieh, Administrative Officer
(Visitors Services)

Computer and Biometrics Services
Dr Zaid Abdul Hadi, Head
Dr Murari Singh, Senior Biometrician
Mr Awad Awad, MIS Team Leader/Database Administrator
Mr Michael Sarkissian, Senior Maintenance Engineer
Mr Colin Webster, Network Administrator

Station Operations
Dr Jürgen Diekmann, Farm Manager
Mr Ahmed Shahbandar, Assistant Farm Manager
Mr Bahij Kawas, Senior Supervisor (Horticulture)

Engineering Services Unit
Mr Ohannes Ohanessian, Physical Plant Manager

Purchasing and Supplies
Mr Essam Abd Alla Saleh Abd El-Fattah, Manager

Labor Office
Mr Marwan Mallah, Consultant

International School of Aleppo
Dr Thomas Taylor, Head

Damascus Office/Guesthouse, Syria
Ms Hana Sharif, Administrative Assistant

Beirut Office/Guesthouse, Lebanon
Mr Anwar Agha, Executive Manager/Consultant

Terbol Research Station, Lebanon
Mr Munir Sughayyar, Engineer, Station Operations

Regional Programs

North Africa Regional Program
Tunis, Tunisia

Dr Mohammed El-Mourid, Regional Coordinator
Dr Abdul Razzak Belaid, Socioeconomist
Dr Véronique Alary, Socioeconomist

Nile Valley and Red Sea Regional Program
Cairo, Egypt

Dr Mohamed Habib Halila, Regional Coordinator

West Asia Regional Program
Amman, Jordan

Dr Ahmed Amri, Biodiversity Project Coordinator


Arabian Peninsula Regional Program
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dr Ahmed Tawfik Moustafa, Protected Agriculture Specialist and Acting Regional Coordinator
Dr Ahmed El Tayeb Osman, Range/Forage Scientist/Ecologist

Highland Regional Program
Tehran, Iran

Dr Habib Ketata, Coordinator of the Iran Project/ICARDA Collaborative Project
Dr Javed Rizvi, Post-Doctoral Fellow

Central Asia and the Caucasus Regional Program
Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Dr Rajendra Singh Paroda, Head of the Program Facilitation Unit, CGIAR Program for CAC and Regional Coordinator
Dr Mekhlis Suleimenov, Assistant Regional Coordinator
Dr Zakir Khalikulov, Consultant Scientist
Dr Victor Shevstov, Cereal Breeder

Latin America Regional Program
CIP, Peru

Dr Abelardo Rodríguez, Regional Coordinator

CIMMYT, Mexico
Dr Flavio Capettini, Post-Doctoral Fellow (Barley Breeder)

Consultants
Dr Giro Orita, Honorary Senior Consultant
Dr Hisham Talas, Medical Consultant (Aleppo)
Dr Edward Hanna, Legal Advisor (Beirut)
Mr Tarif Kayyali, Legal Advisor (Aleppo)