Dr. Dina Najjar joined ICARDA in 2014 as a social and gender specialist. A socio-cultural anthropologist by training, she focuses on the link between gender equality and policies; agricultural technologies and delivery systems; rural employment...
Research Team Leader - Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
Enrico Bonaiuti
Enrico Bonaiuti is the Research Team Leader of the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Team at ICARDA. He coordinates and leads large multi-country teams, ensuring timely deliverables and effective implementation across operations and...
Principal Agricultural Economist (Economic Modeling)
Aymen Frija
Aymen Frija is an agricultural economist with ICARDA’s Social, Economic and Policy Research Team. He is also the coordinator of ICARDA’s activities in Tunisia and Algeria. His current research interests focus on farm modeling, farm efficiency...
Mariana Yazbek is an ICARDA Scientist and the Genebank manager at ICARDA Lebanon, where she is responsible for the conservation and management of the rich and unique “Crop Wild Relatives collection” originating in the Fertile Crescent. She is a...
Dr. Girma T. Kassie holds a Ph.D. in World Food Economics from Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany, a Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Econometrics from Lancaster University, UK, and MSc and BSc degrees in Agricultural Economics...
Senior Scientist - Sustainable Land Management/Country Coordinator - Uzbekistan
Akmal Akramkhanov
Akmal Akramkhanov is a senior scientist specializing in sustainable land management, with over 20 years of experience across Central Asia, the Caucasus, and countries including Moldova, Morocco, Sudan, and Egypt. His work focuses on the...
Principal Scientist - Small Ruminant Physiology and management
Mourad Rekik
Dr. Mourad Rekik is a livestock scientist with more than 25 years of experience in animal reproduction and small ruminants’ production and management in drylands. His expertise includes sheep and goat reproduction, and its interaction with...
Mira Haddad draws on 17 years of experience as an environmental and geographic information system (GIS) specialist. She is a Research Associate: Spatial Analysis and Database Management. She is part of the Resilient Agro-silvopastoral Systems...
