 Associate Professional Officers (APOs) are young people sponsored by their own governments to work for FAO.
APOs play an important role in FAO’s fight against hunger and at the same time, gain experience and skills they take throughout their career. The donor government pays an APO’s salary and benefits. Some donors also support APOs from developing countries. | 
Baku Takahashi is a Japanese APO based in Hue City,Viet Nam where he has been assigned as a Natural Resources and Environment Officer to an FAO Trust Fund Project [