Ali Alhasan Address: Kerr Hall, AUB, Al-Hamra, Beirut, Lebanon Phone-1: +961-81903366 WhatsApp: +963-930599756 Email: [email protected]. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-alhasan-264663173/

Professional Summary • Specialties: Food & Nutrition Security, Plants’ Production (Vertical & Conventional Farming), and Landscape Maintenance & Urban Agriculture, with passion for fighting hunger, poverty, and global warming. • Agricultural Engineer and pursuing a Master of Science in Food Security at the American University of Beirut (AUB), covered by the MasterCard Foundation Scholarship Program. • Highly Skilled in Microsoft Word, Remote Sensing, Geographic Information System (GIS), SPSS, teamwork, leadership, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and communication skills.

Work Experience American University of Beirut (AUB), (Beirut, Lebanon) Research Assistant, 06/2019 – 12/2019 • Working on the FAO-funded project of Water-Energy-Food Nexus (WEF) at the American University of Beirut. • Teamwork with collecting and analyzing data tasks.

Graduate Assistant, 09/2019 – 12/2019 • The World Bank-sponsored project. • Area of Work: Mashreq Digital Transformation of the Agricultural Sector; aiming to revitalize the agricultural sector, boost digital agriculture innovation, and raise the profile of agriculture among non-agricultural sectors. • Tasks: Collected and analyzed data using Remote Sensing and GIS techniques.

02/2019 – 05/2019 • Helped my professor in research on food security in Syria, food balance sheet, local production, and Eat LANCET Report implications collecting data from international resources. • Highly and advanced work in Excel was used.

Planta Verde, (Beirut, Lebanon) 04/2016 – 08/2018 • Landscaper/Team Supervisor, • Area of Work: Urban & Roof-Top Agri, and Private Gardens where I redesigned existed gardens. • Maintained plants; provided requirements of pesticides and fertilizers.

Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), (Homs, Syria) 01/2016 – 02/2016 • Agricultural Engineer, • Provided & educated vulnerable people mushroom cultivation and roof agriculture’s materials and techniques to improve livelihoods & food security.

Al-Ghassaniyeh Nursery, (Homs, Syria) 07/2010 – 08/2015 Internee, (Agricultural Officer), • Two months’ work in every single summer during my studying period in agricultural fields. • Applied pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers to crops in accordance with regulations. • Created seasonal schedules for farmers.

Volunteer UNICEF (AUB, Club) – Bekaa, Lebanon 09/2017 – 06/2019 • Volunteer, • Taught refugee children the importance of physical education and a well-balanced and environmentally healthy diet. • Helped the refugee children with the necessary mathematics and English skills. & Led a healthy food’s team.

MasterCard Foundation Scholarship Volunteers, (AUB, Beirut, Lebanon) 09/2017 – current • Volunteer, • Taught Arabic to African students. • Served the local community by doing cleaning and blood drive and feeding refugees.

Education American University of Beirut (AUB), (Beirut, Lebanon) 09/2017 – current (Expected Graduation: August 2020) • The MS in Food Security provides students with a foundation of knowledge in the core areas of food security. • Courses: 1- Food Security: Challenges and Contemporary Debate 2- Agriculture: Technology, Supply Chains, Sustainability 3- Nutrition Security: Assessment and Intervention Strategies 4- Food Policies and their Planning Process 5- Statistical Methods in Agriculture 6- Remote Sensing 7- Geographic Information System (GIS)

Al-Baath University (Homs, Syria) 09/2010 – 12/2015 • Advanced level of applied agricultural courses: • Crop, Vegetable, Animal, Ornamental Plant, Bees, and Fruit Production. Irrigation and Drainage. • Land Maintenance and Reclamation, Soil and Agricultural Pollution, Ecology, and Natural Resources Management. • Pesticides, Entomology, and Plant Pathology. • Agricultural Marketing, Intensification & Economics, and Mathematics and Statistics.

Languages English — Good Working Knowledge Arabic — Native

References 1- Dr. Martin Keulertz: +491732733555 [email protected] 2- Dr. Talal Razouk: +963-944407289 [email protected]