About

I work as the Senior Regional Director, Asia for CABI. I collaborate and build partnerships with Member Country governments, scientific research organizations, agricultural development organizations and development cooperation agencies, including development banks, which lead to the delivery of our organizational mission: ‘Improving people’s lives by applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment.’

Throughout Asia, I work on more than 12 projects and programmes. More recently, these have focused on food safety through rational pest management using innovative techniques and good agricultural practices with the aim to improve public health through the elimination of toxic residues.

I am technically trained in the laboratory and in field skills which enable me to assess toxic residues in the food chain, design alternative control options and demonstrate these at farm level.

I am a post-harvest technologist and good agricultural practices expert with more than 21 years of professional experience. This includes intensive experience as an agribusiness specialist and extensive and diversified experience in food safety, Sanitary and Phytosanitary Systems, plant protection, spatiotemporal determination of toxic residues, post-harvest, supply chain development, trade and investment promotion.

I have extensive experience developing partnerships, at bilateral and multilateral levels, to promote horticultural commodities in Pakistan, UAE, Russia, Iran, China, Philippines, Singapore, Australia and the USA. I have developed and implemented more than 17 partnership programmes worth $140 million USD.

As a professional, I have taken up a challenge to promote sustainable farming in the agriculture sector with the hope to improve food access, sustainable income and social benefits for the agro-food chain.