Vimlendra Sharan

FAO Representative for Sri Lanka and the Maldives 

Vimlendra Sharan is FAO Country Representative for Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Sharan brings with him nearly three decades of national and international government leadership experience focusing on rural development, agriculture and food security issues. As member of the Indian Administrative Service, he has worked with the Indian Government extensively in rural and tribal areas of Maharashtra and has also been actively involved in agriculture and food policy formulation working with the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare in New Delhi. He comes to Colombo from his previous posting as Director of FAO North America Office before which he was Permanent Representative of India to the Rome based UN Agencies where he served as the Vice President of the Word Food Programme (WFP) Executive Board, Chairman of the Evaluation Committee at International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and a member of the FAO Programme Committee and Council.

Sharan holds a degree in Economics from St. Stephen’s College in Delhi, India and a MBA in Public Policy from University of Birmingham, UK.