Fyi! From: Wilkie, Mette (NFO) <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 02 November 2020 08:58 To: NFO-Staff-List <[log in to unmask]>; NFO-Decentralized-List <[log in to unmask]> Cc: kaimowitzd <[log in to unmask]> Subject: New Manager of the Forest and Farm Facility Dear All, I am delighted to be able to tell you that we have secured an excellent new Manager for the Forest and Farm Facility: David Kaimowitz. For those who may not know him, David comes to the Forest and Farm Facility from serving as a Senior Advisor to the Climate and Land Use Alliance (CLUA) and senior consultant to the Latin American Regional Office of the FAO. He brings to the position extensive experience as a manager, rural policy analyst, grant-maker, communications strategist, and fund-raiser, including extensive work with diverse forest and farm producer organizations and other grassroots rural groups. He previously directed the Ford Foundation's global work on natural resources and climate change and served as Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). He has also worked at the International Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA), International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR), and the Ministry of Agricultural Development and Agrarian Reform (MIDINRA) in Nicaragua. Over his career he has focused on a diverse set of rural issues including, forest policies, Indigenous and small farm organizations and enterprises, climate change, agricultural technology, gender relations, and land tenure, among others. In his previous positions David has been based in Costa Rica, Indonesia, Mexico, Netherlands, and Nicaragua, and he has supervised activities and worked for short periods in dozens of countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He is fluent in English and Spanish, has a working knowledge of Portuguese and French, and a basic understanding of Bahasa Indonesian and Miskitu. David holds a PhD in agricultural economics from the University of Madison - Wisconsin, and has authored or co-authored over 150 publications about rural issues. David will be taking up his new duties on 15 December - teleworking from Nicaragua to start with, but moving to Rome in early 2021. Please join me in giving him a very warm welcome. Best regards, Mette ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the FFF-Partners-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.fao.org/scripts/wa-fao.exe?SUBED1=FFF-Partners-L&A=1