A PhD in Land and Water Resource Management and Engineering, is the Land and Water Officer for the FAO Sub-Regional Office for Central Asia and Turkey. Her role is to oversee and coordinate the land and water portfolio for the sub-region covering both the project implementations and normative work. She joined FAO back in 2014 as a water officer in Rome, and was then transferred to Ankara back in 2018. Before joining FAO she has worked in different national and international institutions including International Water Management Institute, Ontario Ministry of Environment, and ICRC and has lectured at Tehran University and Ryerson University/Toronto.