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Farid Yaker
United Nations Environment Programme
Programme Officer
Description
Farid Yaker has been leading the work of UNEP in the area of Sustainable
Public Procurement since 2008. He has directed the publication of numerous
UNEP publications on SPP including the periodical Global SPP Reviews and
the SPP Implementation Guidelines.
Farid taught Agricultural economics at the University of Blida, Algeria from 1988
to 1990 before joining the international NGO Enda (Environmental
Development Action) after the Rio summit that he attended in 1992. After
managing an international programme on the promotion of participatory
approaches in the field of urban environment from 1994 to 1999, Farid took the
direction of the European office of Enda before joining UNEP in 2008.
He holds a master’s degree in Agricultural economics from the University of
California at Davis, USA
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