Some recent activities
Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency
Member of Accreditation Panels:
Member of External Evaluation Committees:
UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA)
Major study on Arab Horizon 2030: Prospects for Enhansing Food Security in the Arab Region, Beirut/Rome/Geneva, January to May 2017
Committee on Commodity Problems (CCP), FAO
External Expert to the Working Group on the Role of the FAO Consultative Sub-Committee on Surplus Disposal (CSSD), FAO, Rome, May 2015-October 2016
FAO Regional Office for the Near East and Ministry of Agriculture of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Food and Nutrition Security Situation in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Challenges and Possible Responses, Riyadh/Rome/Geneva, September 2015-June 2016
European Commission (IBF Int'l Consulting): Food Security in the East African Community (EAC)
Impact of Regional Integration under Customs Union and Common Market Policies, Geneva/EAC countries, September 2014-July 2015
FAO Trade and Markets Division
Role of the FAO Consultative Sub-Committee on Surplus Disposal (CSSD) and Way Forward, background paper to the Committee on Commodity Problems, Rome, May-July 2014
FAO Regional Office for the Near East
Food
Security in the Near East and North Africa Region: issues and policy options, Cairo, June-December 2013
FAO Technical Cooperation Department
Food
price volatility in West Africa: effects on consumers and producers and policy options at national, regional and international levels, Rome, May-December 2012
International Centre for Trade and Sustanable Development (ICTSD)
Trade Policy Responses to Food
Price Volatility in Poor Net Food-Importing Countries, Geneva
, February-March 2012
European Commission (Maxwell Stamp, PLC): Support to Trade Policy and Capacity Building in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mechanism of Reporting Agricultural Subsidies in Bosnia and Herzegovina Consistent with WTO Notification Obligations, Sarajevo, November-December 2011
FAO Trade and Markets
Division
International Trade Policy Options for Mitigating the Effects of World Price Volatility, Rome, January 2011
International Trade Centre (ITC)/European Development Fund/ACP Group of States
Market Development Study for West African cereal commodity
sectors: The role of trade in the context of the region’s effort to attain food
security, Geneva & ECOWAS countries, July-December 2010
FAO Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation Division
Promoting agricultural inputs under the Food Aid Convention (FAC) to increase food production in emergency prone developing countries, Rome, May-June 2010
Rwanda Bureau of Standards (on behalf of AITIC)
National Workshop on SPS and TBT Agreements: Training on Notifications, Training Project funded by DFID, Kigali, Rwanda, June 2010
FAO Trade and Markets
Division
Trade policy measures during food
price swings: WTO-compatible instruments to respond to world price instability, Training Project funded by DFID, Uganda (December 2009), Kenya (March 2010) and Malawi (September 2010)
European Commission (Maxwell Stamp, PLC): Sudan EPA Negotiations and Implementation Support
Assessing Sudan’s Export Diversification Potential in Agricultural Products, Major study based on interaction with stakeholders in Sudan completed in October 2009
The Gambia, Ministry of Foreign Trade
Training of national staff on WTO SPS and TBT Agreements, notification requirements and technical assistance needs (on behalf of AITIC), Banjul, The Gambia, August 2008
Sudan, Commission for WTO Affairs
Implications of Sudan’s accession to the World Trade Organization (on behalf of AITIC) Khartoum, Sudan, October 2008
Inter-agency policy formulation mission on follow-up WTO accession compliance issues, institutional and infrustructural capacity (on behalf of UNDP), Hanoi, Vietnam, November 2007
Vietnam, United Nations Development Programme
Inter-agency policy formulation mission on follow-up WTO accession compliance issues, institutional and infrustructural capacity (on behalf of UNDP), Hanoi, Vietnam, November 2007
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