Shoki Al-Dobai
| Position: | FAO Representative |
| Location: | Plant Production and Protection Division Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Rome, Italy |
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Dr. Shoki Al-Dobai is an Entomologist with over 20 years of work experience in plant pest management, including biological control, pesticide management and phytosanitary measures. Since June 2019, he has been working as a Senior Agricultural Officer and Team Leader of the Locusts and Transboundary Plant Pests and Diseases at the Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome.
He supervises and coordinates the FAO plant health emergency prevention system, including the global locusts and other transboundary plant pests and diseases monitoring and early warning systems, and FAO’s emergency response programs to the plant-pest crises.
From 2011-2017, he worked as a Regional Crop Protection Officer at the FAO Regional Office for the Near East & North Africa Region in Cairo, Egypt. From 2017-2019 has been the Integration & Support Team Leader of the Secretariat of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) at FAO HQs in Rome.
