Hanafi Abdelhaq
Dr Hanafi brings more than 35 years of national and international leadership experience, of which 10 years has been in the UN system, where he has extensively worked on sustainable development, rural development, environmental protection, Investments, and natural resource management in Central Africa, Eastern Europe, as well as the Near East and North Africa regions. In January 2020, He took up the position of Head of the Central African Hub and Country Director of IFAD Country office in Yaounde (Cameroon, DRC, Congo, Gabon, Chad, Eq. Guinea, CAR and Sao Tome and Principe). He served as a country Director in Egypt from 2013 to 2017, and between 2017 and 2019, he served as IFAD Country Director of DRC and Congo in the West and Central African Division. Born in Morocco, Dr Abdelhaq Hanafi holds a PhD and MS in Agriculture from the University of Minnesota USA, Doctorate Es-Science in Agronomy from IAV Hassan II University in Morocco and DEA Biology from the Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University in Paris.