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Faris Hadad-Zervos

Country Director, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka, South Asia

FARIS HADAD-ZERVOS is the outgoing Country Director for Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Prior to this, he served as the World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP Country Manager for Nepal, Country Manager for Malaysia and the Head of the Global Knowledge and Research Hub in Kuala Lumpur.

Mr. Hadad-Zervos, a US national, joined the World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP in 1996 with the Private Sector Development Department. He served as Manager of the Technical Cooperation Program with the Gulf Cooperation Countries (2000-2003), Head of Mission for Iraq (2003-2005), Operations Manager for the West ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP and Gaza (2005-2008), Acting Director for Fragile States in the Operations Department (2010-2011) and Country Manager for Bolivia (2012-2015). In 2008, Hadad-Zervos took a leave of absence from the World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP to serve as the Deputy Head of the Quartet Office for the Middle East Peace Process, based in Jerusalem.

Hadad-Zervos holds a Master's Degree in Economics from George Mason University, and a Master's Degree in Finance from George Washington University.