New WFP country rep in Dhaka

John Aylieff has assumed office of the country representative of the World Food Programme in Bangladesh, the UN food agency said in a statement on Sunday. He earlier served as the emergency coordinator and director of assessment, analysis and preparedness Division in WFP Headquarters in Rome, Italy. Aylieff managed WFP’s largest-ever special operation, aimed at providing logistic support to the delivery and monitoring of food across Iraq in 2003 while working at Larnaca, Cyprus. From 2003 to 2006, he worked with the WFP Brussels office as director of European Commission Relations Division. ‘I am delighted to have been appointed to serve in Bangladesh,’ Aylieff said on his appointment as the WFP country representative. ‘Bangladesh is one of the key partners for WFP. With the third-largest number of poor and hungry people in the country, our work here has a great implication for achieving the MDG,’ he said.