Speakers
The official language at the conference is English.Sandro Calvani, Director UNICRI in Rome, Italy.
Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
- Listen to interview with Mr. Costa
Harold D. Holder, USA, Senior Research Scientist and former Director of the Prevention Research Center.
Tania Major, Australia, criminologist, elected The Young Australian of the Year 2007.
Neil McKeganey, UK, professor at the Centre for Drug Misuse Research, University of Glasgow.
Craig Nakken, author, lecturer, therapist, USA.
Dr. Inga Dora Sigfusdottir, Dean of the School of Public Health and Education at the Reykjavik University, Iceland.
Alejandro Vassilaqui, Peru, executive director of CEDRO, Center of Information and Education for Drug Abuse Prevention in Peru.
John P. Walters, Director General ONDCP, USA.
Anastasia Agafonova, International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Lisa Brady, USA, Superintendent of Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, New Jersey and has worked with student random drug testing.
Mina Seinfeld de Carakushansky, President of BRAHA – Brazilian Humanitarians in Action.
Svante Cornell, Research Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program.
Theodore Dalrymple, UK, physician and psychiatrist who writes books and essays about how drug abuse affects society as well as the individual.
Robert L. DuPont, USA, psychiatrist, has for more than 30 years, been a leader in drug abuse prevention and treatment.
Rogers Kasirye, Director of the Uganda Youth Agency, Uganda.
Dr. Ehab El Kharrat MB BCh, MSc, PhD Executive Director, Freedom Drugs and HIV Programme, Egypt.
Björn Hibell, sociologist and the Managing Director of the Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs (CAN).
Andreas Kinneging, Professor of Law, University of Leiden, Netherlands.
Frans Koopmans, Drug therapist Netherlands. director communications for De Hoop Foundation.
Jeff Lee, Executive Director, The Mentor Foundation (International).
Nils Lundin, M.D., Dipl PH, School Health Consultant, Helsingborg, Sweden.
Christina Oguz, Sweden, head of the UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Dr. Ken Winters, University of Minnesota, Chair Mentor International Scientific Advisory Network, USA.
Naret Songkrawsook
Ramzi Naaman, Mentor Arabia’s Executive Director.
Pubudu Sumanasekara
M.R. Disnadda Diskul
Mohammad Shah Rauf
Dr. Sandro Calvani, Italy, Director of UNICRI, the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute
UNICRI's Director has served as an International Civil Servant for the past twenty years in some of the worst crisis areas in five continents. Mr Calvani pursued studies in the Economy of Rural Communities, Disaster Preparedness and Response and Leadership in Development and holds a Masters degree from the University of Genoa. Before being appointed to the United Nations, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Genoa. He has been a visiting scientist at Colorado State University and at Harvard and Louvain Universities. He has led Caritas International, was Country Director for UNODC in Bolivia, for the Barbados-based UNODC Regional Office for the Caribbean and served as Regional Director for South East Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, Thailand. Before being appointed to UNICRI, he led the UNODC Office in Colombia. He has significant experience across a wide range of criminal and social issues, particularly in the fields of drug control and crime prevention. Mr Calvani has published more than 600 articles and 18 books in various languages.
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Antonio Maria Costa, Italy, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Director-General of the United Nations Office in Vienna (UNOV). He holds the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Antonio Maria Costa has served as senior economist in the United Nations Department of International Economics and Social Affairs in New York. He was subsequently appointed Under-Secretary-General at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. He was a member of the OECD Working Group for financial transactions, a Member of IMF/World Bank Interim Committee and of the G-10 Group for the coordination of economic policy.
Antonio Maria Costa has served at the Commission of the European Union as Director-General for Economics and Finance. In that capacity he served as EU Sherpa for the G8 meetings. He then joined the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as Secretary-General where he oversaw political issues, institutional affairs, corporate governance and questions relating to shareholders.
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Harold D. Holder, USA, Senior Research Scientist and former Director of the Prevention Research Center. He works with the department of Health Education in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and has explored two major alcohol research areas: the prevention of substance abuse and the cost and benefits of alcoholism and drug abuse treatment.
Harold D. Holder is a leader in a systems perspective to prevention. He is also one of the first researchers to undertake controlled studies on cost and economic benefits of alcoholism treatment and has participated in a number of international prevention projects. He was chosen by a board of distinguished scientists as the recipient of the 1995 Jellinek Memorial Award, presented at the International Council on Alcohol and Addictions in San Diego, California. It is awarded for distinction gained by advancing knowledge about alcoholism or fostering its study, treatment, or prevention. He was also awarded the President's Award from the Society for Prevention Research in 2001 for his scientific leadership in prevention.
To mention a few of his more than 150 scientific publications: Control Issues in Alcohol Abuse Prevention: Strategies for States and Communities reviewed the scientific literature on alcohol policy; Alcohol Policy and the Public Good; Alcohol and Public Policy: Evidence and Issues, European Integration and Nordic Alcohol Policies and Sweden and the European Union: Changes in National Alcohol Policy and Their Consequences.
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Tania Major, Australia, criminologist, Australia of Kokoberra origin. At the age of 21 Major became the youngest elected regional councillor in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). In 2007 she was the youngest person ever to be elected The Young Australian of the Year.
Major broke the ice of public discussion about a number of issues concerning the welfare of young indigenous people when she was featured on national television programs. She is the only person within her community having completed a university degree; indeed, she is the only one to have successfully completed year 12. She has become a role model not only for indigenous youth, but also for all young Australians.
Tania Major is currently working at the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership. As Youth Advocate and Project Officer, she is heavily involved in working with young people in a number of Cape York communities to help strengthen their communities through action-based leadership and entrepreneurial self help projects.
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Neil McKeganey, UK, professor at the Centre for Drug Misuse Research, University of Glasgow. Neil McKeganey studied the effects of methadone treatment in Scotland as well as harm reduction policies in general.
For the last fifteen years Neil McKeganey has concentrated on research within the drug misuse field and has undertaken work on drug injectors and HIV, prostitution, and drugs and young people. He led the research team which undertook a pilot of the ADAM methodology of interviewing and drug testing arrestees. He is the founding director of the Centre for Drug Misuse Research within the University of Glasgow and has directed the research programme of the Centre since 1994. He is a member of the Greater Glasgow Drug Action Team. He has acted as an advisor to the UK Home Office, the World Health Organisation and the United States Department of Justice. His most recent book, co-authored with Professor James McIntosh, is Beating the Dragon: the recovery from dependent drug use.
Neil McKeganey has recently published work on pre-teen drug misuse, the impact of parental drug use on children and drug users views of methadone.
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Craig M. Nakken, MSW, LICSW (Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker), LMFT (Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist), is author of The Addictive Personality, Understanding The Addictive Process and Compulsive Behavior (over 350,000 in print, translated into six different languages) and most recently Reclaim Your Family from Addiction: How Couples and Families Recover Love and Meaning , co-authored, with his wife Jane, the book Keep It Simple Meditations (one million copies in print), and just published God Grant Me… meditation book plus many other publications.
He is an international lecturer and instructor. (Russia, Sweden, Demark, Panama, Australia, Norway, China, Singapore, Iceland, Mexico, Puerto Rico) He presented at the first ever Conference on Addictions in China in 2002 and the first ever All Asian Conference on Addictions in Singapore in 2004. He teaches at Rutgers Summer School Alcohol Studies and Florida School of Addictions. He is a family therapist specializing in the treatment of addiction/s. He has over thirty years of experience in the areas of addiction and recovery. Craig Nakken has a private practice in St Paul, Minnesota.
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Inga Dora Sigfusdottir is the Dean of the School of Health and Education, at Reykjavik University as well as the founder and director of research at the Icelandic Centre for Social Research and Analysis, an organization with emphasis on youth research, education and innovation. Dr. Sigfusdottir received her Ph.D. in sociology from Pennsylvania State University in 2004. She has co-authored numerous books in Icelandic, as well as articles in peer reviewed journals. Her most recent articles appeared in Social Compass, Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology and Social Forces.
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Alejandro Vassilaqui, Peru, executive director of CEDRO, Center of Information and Education for Drug Abuse Prevention in Peru. CEDRO is a NGO that among other things runs shelters for street children, does preventive work in schools and is engaged in media campaigns. Alejandro Vassilaqui is known through out Latin America as an exceptional organizer and coalition builder. At University of San Marcos he was the professor of Group Work and at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, professor of Latinamerican Politics.
He is a sociologist who has worked with a number of organizations. He has been the President of the World Alliance of Young Men´s Christian Associations, YMCA, and member of the Board of Drug Free America Foundation. On a community level he has, among other engagements, been a member of the Planning Committee of Lima’s local government. He is also the advisor to the Presidency and a former member of the Board of Directors of Peru´s agency against drugs Contradrogas-Devida.
Major books that Alejandro Vassilaqui has published are: Organización del la Comunidad; Las Drogas en el Peru; Legalización de las Drogas and El Desafio de la Prevencion de Drogas.
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John P. Walters, USA, is the Director of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)—sworn in on December 7, 2001. As the Nation's "Drug Czar," Director Walters coordinates all aspects of Federal drug control programs and spending.
Under Director Walters' leadership, youth drug use has dropped to its lowest levels since the early 1990s. The latest Monitoring the Future Study, released in December, 2007, indicated that 860,000 fewer young people are using drugs today than in 2001—a 24 percent reduction. Teen marijuana use has dropped 25 percent, teen methamphetamine use has plummeted 64 percent, and teen ecstasy and LSD use have declined 50 percent or more over the past five years.
Emphasizing the need for a balanced approach to reducing drug use, Director Walters has overseen the creation and implementation of several key prevention and treatment programs.
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Anastasia Agafonova, International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, AIDS activist, public relations and information officer. Interaction and communication on national, regional and international level with NGO and governmental sector on HIV/AIDS, TB, hepatitis prevention, treatment, care and support issues. More that 4 years recovering from drug addiction, one year experience of work in the rehabilitation centre for people, who suffer from chemical addiction and their relatives.
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Lisa Brady, USA, is the Superintendent of Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, New Jersey. She is an original member of the Hunterdon Central Random Drug Testing Task Force that developed one of the first, comprehensive student random drug testing policies in the country. The school program has been identified nationally as a model program and is featured in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy publication, What You Should Know About Drug Testing In Schools.
She is the co-author of Drug Testing in Schools: Guidelines for Effective Use published by Hazeldon Press in 2005. She is also the author of numerous articles on student random drug testing programs and is the President of the Drug Free Schools Coalition. She works as a consultant with school districts across the United States considering the implementation of student random drug testing programs. Her most recent article, Why We Test Kids for Drugs, appears in the January 2008 publication of The School Administrator, the national journal of the American Association of School Administrators.
Lisa Brady speaks on the topic of student random drug testing programs at conferences and schools across the country and has participated on numerous panels and television programs as an expert on drug testing in schools. CBS, NJN News, CNN and Fox have featured the Hunterdon Central program.
Lisa Brady wrote her doctor dissertation on Student Perceptions of the Effectiveness of a Random Student Drug Testing Program in One New Jersey High School.
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Mina Seinfeld de Carakushansky
President of BRAHA – Brazilian Humanitarians in Action,
Vice-President of Drug Watch International.
The International Coordinator of Forging Leadership for Drug Demand Reduction (DPNA = Drug Prevention Network of America + DFAF= Drug Free America).
Special advisor to EURAD (Europe Against Drugs).
Special advisor to the International Task Force on Drug Policies.
Has been a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil and special advisor to varius drug-fighting bodies in Rio de Janerio. Has authored books and papers on Law-enforcement and Drugs.
Over the last five years, Mina has been traveling all over Latin America in her capacity as the International Coordinator of Forging Leadership, coordinating more than 60 intensive seminars together with Latin American renown drug prevention specialists, in which local community leaders, NGOs and governmental authorities come together and start planning joint work towards drug demand reduction. Mina has received many national and international awards and recognitions because of her work and is presently an Honorary Professor at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires.
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Svante Cornell, is the Research Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, and a co-founder of the Institue for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. His main areas of expertise are security issues, state-building, and transnational crime in Southwest and Central Asia, with a specific focus on the Caucasus. He also has expertise in Turkish and Pakistani politics and foreign policy. He is the Editor of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, the Joint Center's bi-weekly publication, and of the Joint Center's Silk Road Papers series of occasional papers.
Cornell is the author of four books, including Small Nations and Great Powers, the first comprehensive study of the post-Soviet conflicts in the Caucasus. His articles have appeared in numerous leading academic and journals such as World Politics, the Washington Quarterly, Current History, Journal of Democracy, Europe-Asia Studies, etc. His commentaries and op-eds appear occasionally in the U.S., Swedish, Turkish and Pakistani press.
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Theodore Dalrymple, UK, is a retired physician and psychiatrist who regularly saw patients in an English prison. He writes books and essays about the modern welfare state and how drug abuse affects society as well as the individual.
Theodore Dalrymple is a contributing editor of City Journal and frequent contributor to the London Spectator, the New Criterion and other leading magazines and newspapers. He is author of Our Culture, What’s Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses and Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and Addiction Bureaucracy. Most recently he wrote In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas.
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Robert L. DuPont, USA, psychiatrist, has for more than 30 years, been a leader in drug abuse prevention and treatment. Among his many contributions he was the first Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and was the second White House Drug Chief. In 1978 Robert L. DuPont became the founding president of the Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc. and in 1982, with his long time colleague, Peter Bensinger, he founded Bensinger DuPont & Associates.
Robert L. DuPont maintains an active psychiatric practice specializing in addiction and the anxiety disorders and has been Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Georgetown University School of Medicine since 1980.
Among Robert L. DuPont’s publications we find titles such as: Getting Tough on Gateway Drugs: A Guide for the Family; A Bridge to Recovery: An Introduction to Twelve-Step Programs (written with John P. McGovern, M.D.) and The Selfish Brain: Learning from Addiction.
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Mr. Kasirye Rogers, Uganda hold a Masters in Human Rights and Bachelors in Social Work of Makerere University, Kampala Uganda. currently serving as Executive Director of Uganda Youth Development Link, an NGO working to improve the lives of urban communities, slum and street youth in Uganda for the last 14 years developing plans, mobilizing resources, undertaking research on alcohol and drug abuse. Has also been key in developing country strategies and legal frameworks to combat alcohol and drug abuse, trafficking in human persons in Uganda
He has been awarded two international awards by the United Nations and the commonwealth for exemplary work of initiating programmes for the marginalized. I have been a consultant for various international agencies on trafficking in human persons, drug and substance abuse in sub-Saharan Africa and serve as a lead expert in the region for the same.
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Dr. Ehab El Kharrat, Senior Programme Advisor of UNDP/HIV/AIDS Regional programme in the Arab States (HARPAS).Founder and executive director (honorary) of the Freedom Program, the largest drug and HIV program in the Arab world (250 beds for drug rehabilitation, 1100 recovering addicts, prevention programmes reaching 200 000 young people and training for addiction professionals from Egypt, and 24 other countries). Co-founder and current president, of the International Substance Abuse and Addiction Coalition (ISAAC, 550 members from 52 different countries). A trained psychiatrist, he has designed and implemented with proven success a number of behaviour change and leadership programmes as well as surveys and research projects, in the Arab world and beyond, for drug addicts, drug workers, people living with HIV, sex workers, young people at risk and professionals (doctors, psychiatrists, teachers, religious leaders, media leaders, etc.). Lectured in London University, Glasgow, Moscow, Spain, Florida among many other venues.
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Björn Hibell is a sociologist and the Managing Director of the Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs (CAN). He became a doctor in 1977 and assistant professor (docent) in 1979. Björn Hibell has worked with the Swedish annual school surveys since they started in 1971 and is coordinating the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD). He has been a board member of the International Council on Alcohol and Addiction (ICAA) since 1999 and since 2001 he is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).
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Andreas Kinneging Nederlands, has an M.A. in political science from the University of Nijmegen, and a Ph.D in law from the University of Leiden. His Ph.D dissertation also appeared as a book, entitled Aristocracy, Antiquity, and History (Brunswick, N.J., Transaction Publishers 1994). He holds the Chair in Legal Philosophy at the Law Faculty of the University of Leiden. His main fields of interest are legal and political theory, ethics, constitutional theory, history of ideas, and constitutional law. He published in all of these fields. His most recent book Geografie van Goed en Kwaad (Utrecht, Het Spectrum 2005) was awarded the Socrates-prize 2006, for the best Dutch book of the year in the field of philosophy. In 2008 an English translation will appear under the title Geography of Good and Evil (Wilmington, Del., ISI Books). Kinneging is a columnist of the Staatscourant and a regular contributor the weekly Opinio. He is married and has two sons.
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Frans S.L. Koopmans, MA, (1963) is director communications for De Hoop Foundation, a Christian mental health care facility for adults, adolescents and children in the field of psychiatric and addiction care in Dordrecht, the Netherlands. He has been working there since 1987. He is editor of De Hoop Magazine, a bi-monthly magazine on drugs, addiction, drug policy and aid, former board member of 'Rainbow International Association Against Drugs', trustee of 'International Substance Abuse and Addiction Coalition' (ISAAC) and member of the International Task Force on Strategic Drug Policy. He is the author of several books on drugs and addiction and is actively involved in the Dutch drug policy debate.
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Jeff Lee is the Executive Director, The Mentor Foundation (International).
He joined Mentor as one of its Scientific Advisers in 1994 when Mentor was established and became involved as a consultant and subsequently a staff member in supporting the programme and international development of the organisation before becoming its Executive Director in 2004. Jeff has worked in over 60 countries throughout the world across all continents both for Mentor and in a consultancy capacity for governments and other international and national organisations in helping to develop, implement, manage and evaluate projects related to the field of substance misuse prevention and health promotion.
His career has involved substantial practical experience of education in schools, youth work and in the training of teachers and other professionals. Jeff was previously the Chief Executive of The Advisory Council on Alcohol and Drug Education (TACADE), a leading education, training and prevention non-government organisation in the UK. He has written a range of education and health/prevention papers and programmes for teachers, youth workers, trainers and other professionals involved in the fields of health, drugs and life skills education.
Jeff has gained an international reputation for his expert, but practical, contribution to these areas and to the effort to identify, develop, support and disseminate effective substance prevention and health promotion to help young people and their carers and to achieve Mentor’s mission to prevent drug abuse and promote the health and well-being of children and young people.
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Nils Lundin, Sweden, is an adolescent health consultant, as well as a school health consultant in Helsingborg (a city in southern part of Sweden with 120.000 inhabitants). Since 1993 he has been engaged in working with a drug preventive programme for schools in the community. The programme is developed in close collaboration with a broad spectrum of professionals within and outside school-settings.The present programme, now in its 13th year, includes drug tests. These tests are both performed on suspiscious-base; as well as performed as random tests. The random tests are implemented on the bases of the work environment act, under which all students in the school premises are included.
He is active in lectures and debates in several areas concerning adolescent and school health issues; and has produced different articles, amongst others concerning the drug preventive programme in the Journal of the Swedish Medical Association.
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Christina Oguz, Sweden, head of the UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Christina Oguz is former Deputy National Drug Policy Coordinator of Sweden and former Head of the Demand Reduction Section at UNODC, Vienna. Before taking up her UN position Christina Oguz was Director at the Ministry of Health and Affairs, Sweden, with responsibilities for issues concerning social services, child welfare, alcohol and drug policy. During the Swedish Presidency of the European Union Christina Oguz was President for the Horizontal Working Group on Drugs.
She will focus her speech during the conference on Counter Narcotics Efforts in Afghanistan.
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Ken Winters, Ph.D. is the director of the Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research, a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota, and a Senior Scientist with the Treatment Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA.
He received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in Psychology (Clinical) from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His primary research interests are the assessment and treatment of adolescent drug abuse. He currently is the PI on two NIH-funded grants examining the efficacy of brief interventions with drug abusing adolescents. He is an Associate Editor for the Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, and is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse and the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. He was also the Lead Editor for two Treatment Improvement Protocol Series (# 31 and # 32) published by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (SAMHSA) that focused on adolescent drug abuse assessment and treatment. He is a consultant to many organizations, including the Hazelden Foundation, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Partnership for Drug Free America, World Health Organization, and the Mentor Foundation.
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Naret Songkrawsook
Professional Experience
• 2004-Present Project Manager, IOGT - Regional Information and Action Networking on Drug Abuse Control Project (IOGT - RIANDAC Project), Chiang Mai 5000, Thailand
o Chief. Of Thai-German Highland Development Program
(TG-HDP), Mae Hong Son Province , Thailand.
Special Experience
• Facilitator and trainer
• Conduct training on Community - Based Drug Abuse Control for IOGT partners in LAO.PDR Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar
• Lecturer
• Special Lecturer on “Leadership Development” for Faculty of Humanity, Chiang Mai University, during 1996 - 2006
Written papers
• “Role and Status Changes of Karen Woman in Considering Gender Perspective” ,by FORD Foundation,1996
• “Drug Abuse Problem Solving by Cultural Approaph”,1997
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Ramzi Naamanis Mentor Arabia’s Executive Director.
He joined Mentor Arabia in mid-March 2008 on the strength of his wide-ranging experience and knowledge in public health and social community development honed at Lebanon’s Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR). More specifically, Mr. Naaman’s CDR tenure allowed him to build a track record that ran the gamut from the micro-implementation of projects to strategic planning.
Throughout his 20-year-plus career in the development sector, Mr. Naaman has managed various projects and undertaken different types of consultancies for governmental bodies, international NGOs and regional research centers within the fields of health and development. Mr. Naaman was also involved for a number of years in academic teaching.
Mr. Naaman holds a Master of Science in Public Health and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Health from the American University of Beirut.
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Pubudu Sumanasekara
Has been working in the field of Drug prevention, Health Promotion, Youth Development and Community empowerment for last 18 years. Some of the drug demand reduction work has won international awards. Popular resource person in TV and Radio channels in Sri Lanka. Completed health promotion studies in Canada. Presented papers in many international conferences. Trainer in drug prevention for over 15 years. Presently working as the Executive Director of Alcohol and Drug Information Centre Sri Lanka. which is an internationally recognized scientific resource centre for Prevention of drugs. Has written training manuals for drug demand reduction.
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M.R, Disnadda Diskul served as a Private Secretary to Her Royal Highness Srinagarindra the late Princess Mother, mother of His Majesty the King of Thailand, for over 28 years, from his appointment to the position by Royal Decree on 14 November 1967 until Her Royal Highness passed away in June 1995.
He has served concurrently as Secretary-General of the Mae Fah Luang Foundation under Royal Patronage since the establishment of the foundation in 1972. Originally named the Thai Hill-Crafts Foundation under the Patronage of Her Royal Highness the Princess Mother, the foundation was set up to market handicrafts of hill tribe communities in North Thailand and to help improve their lives in other ways.
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Mohammad Shah Rauf
Born in 1961 in Herat province of Afghanistan. Completed B.Sc. in plant science 1984 from the Faculty of Agriculture at Kabul University.
After having a short work experience with the Afghan Government during the Soviet invasion, Mr. Shah Rauf migrated to Iran in 1985, where he set up two schools for refugee's children in primary level in the Iranian city of Mashhad.
1987-1992 was spent in Pakistan, assisting Afghan refugees and at the same time completing post graduate studies with a master’s degree in agronomy from University of Agriculture in Faisal Abad.
Since 1992, Mr. Shah Rauf implemented rural development activities in Afghanistan, working with Afghan and international NGOs, civil society organizations and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
From 1993, Mr. Shah Rauf has been working for DACAAR in Herat, implementing rural development activities in close cooperation with local communities, civil society organizations and local authorities. Managing of local natural resources such as saffron in a sustainable way has been a key task.
Mr. Shah Rauf has since 2007 served as DACAAR’s official representative in the Western Afghanistan
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