The Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the pacific (CIRDAP) appoints Dr. Muhammad Israr as its new IRD Expert.
Dr. Muhammad Israr is a civil servant and senior bureaucrat. He is a citizen of Pakistan. He is graduated from Australian National University (ANU), Australia and earned his PhD in Rural Development from the Institute of Development Studies (AUP). He has about 30 years of research experience in policies formulations pertaining to Agriculture, livestock, fisheries, integrated Rural Development, sustainable development and climate change. He is well conversant in the fields of integrated business projects, development projects, institutional development and management consulting. Dr. Muhammad Israr has sufficient number of national and international research publications to his credit. During his professional career, he worked for the integrated rural development covering the aspects of agriculture, livestock and fisheries and integrated water resources management through high efficiency irrigation systems. Dr. Muhammad Israr is currently working as secretary Agriculture, livestock, fisheries and Cooperative Department, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan and is presently implementing projects pertaining to water & crop sector, livestock sector, enterprises development in the context of agribusinesses under Agriculture Emergency program and transformation plan.
Dr. Muhammad Israr is having good back ground in training and development aspects of the HR Development especially financial and taxation management as well as managing across cultures. His research interests are development of rural communities through common facilitation centers and farm services centers in the rural economies of the developing nations.
