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Saeed Abubakar Bancie, FAO Representative ad interim in Liberia 

 Mr. Saeed Abubakar Bancie, a national of Ghana, started his career in 1998 as Monitoring and   Information       Management Coordinator for the Village Aid Project in Ghana, and in 2001, he became   Country Representative.

 From 2004 to 2008, he worked for International Non-profit Organization “Heifer International” in   Arkansas, United   States, as Programme Officer of the Africa Area Programme and as Senior     Specialist/Programme Officer of the   Agriculture Enterprise Development and HIV/AIDS Programmes.

 Between 2010 and 2013, he served as an Adjunct Faculty Instructor of the International Studies   Programme for   the   University of Arkansas. From 2010 to 2011, he was Programme Manager of the   East Africa Dairy Development   Programme at Heifer International and, in 2011, he subsequently   became East Africa Regional Director at the same institution.

Mr Bancie joined FAO in 2014 as Investment Officer for FAO Somalia, based in Nairobi, Kenya, and from 2015 he served as Agrobusiness Officer. In 2018, he was appointed FAO Representative in Eritrea.

Mr Bancie holds a Master of Science in International Development and Social Change from Clark University in Worcester in the United States, a Master of Science in Development Administration and Planning from the University of London in the United Kingdom, and a Bachelor of Science in Development Planning from the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana.