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Pakistan
1995-1997 - Cohort 4
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Mr. Shaikh has successfully assumed development management positions of increasing responsibilities from 1993 (Program Coordinator - Trust for Voluntary Organisations - TVO), to his recent positions (Programme Manager at the Technical Assistance Management Agency - TAMA, and the Aga Khan Foundation Pakistan - AKF,P)
During his association with the Aga Khan Development Network, he has headed the portfolio of the Civil Society Programmes and the CIDA funded Social Institutions Development Programme (SIDP) with approximately $2.5 million per year in disbursements. He has managed the Aga Khan Housing Board's Built Environment Programme for multi altitude rural and urban communities in the Northern Areas and Chitral, as well. In the earlier period of his professional career, he has worked as a consultant for the Orangi Pilot Project, UNICEF, the Urban Resource centre, the Planning and Development Department (GoS) and the Applied Economics Research Centre. He has also been associated as a student architect with the Orangi Pilot Project for many years. He has been involved in systems development, strategic and operational planning, contracting, performance measurement, proposal development, direct implementation, ensuring gender equality, and management of information systems. He has been a resource person for Organisational Capacity Assessments and Organisational Learning processes. Mr. Shaikh has also acted as a technical and strategic advisor to a variety of organisations and projects. Facilitating establishment and fostering new initiatives has been part of his jobs. The Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy, the Pakistan Micro Finance Network and the recently formed Human Resource Development Network are some of the many projects that were part of his portfolio. Besides, he has maintained linkages with the Government of Pakistan and other development organisations at a national level to facilitate and develop a participatory fiscal and regulatory framework for the citizen sector in Pakistan. Mr. Shaikh has degrees in Social Development, Environment and Architecture and Planning and he has been associated with the academic institutions like the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), the school of Environment, Resources and Development (Thailand) and recently, the Carleton University (Canada) and other training facilities such as the Rockefeller Foundation's Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD). |
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Pakistan
2006-2007 - Cohort 12
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Ahsan Ali Mangi is currently associated with ERRA as Director Education-Planning. I graduated in electrical engineering and worked as control systems engineer before joining Civil Service of Pakistan in 1996 as District Management Group (DMG) officer. I served as Assistant Commissioner in areas like Dera Bugti, Lorallai, Mastung, Dalbundin in Balochistaan Province. These appointments made it possible to have an insight into ground realities; weakness and gaps in policymaking as well as service delivery. This experience has helped me in my later assignments in policy related positions in Planning, Finance and Local Government Departments. An MSc in International Development UK in 2005 provided academic and theoretical basis to my professional experience and has benefited me during my assignments in Sindh Rural Development Project and Sindh Food Department. My research interest lies in the causes of inequality between and within nations and its impact on human well-being. Histories, theology and social anthropology are main reading interests and squash is the preferred sport.
I am confident that over 9 years of experience of serving in the field and on policy positions in this arena has equipped me with a clearer understanding of developmental issues faced by Pakistan and ways to bring about positive improvements through incorporating local realities and knowledge. |
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Francophone Africa
2006-2007 - Cohort 12
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Abdoul Ali Aïchatou is a sociologist by profession and is currently working with Agri Sahel a private organization in Niger.
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Mexico
2005-2006 - Cohort 11
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I was born in the greenest desert of the world: Sonorean Desert, localized in the North-Western Mexican Border.
My College education was in Economics at Universidad de Guadalajara. Being very young and still a student of Economics, I started to work as an assistant research in Economics in Centro de Investigaciones Socio- Económicas at Universidad de Guadalajara. Later in 1979 I became a professor in the Economics Department in Universidad de Guadalajara, then I teaught Microeconomics, Economics History and Mexican Economics Analisys for undergrads. From 1993 to 1995 I studied my Master Degree in Liberal Studies focused in Environmental Issues at Indiana University in the United States of America. After several years of been teaching and doing research in Economics and Environmental Issues in Universidad de Guadalajara and, at the same time in others Mexican universities, I started to studied my Ph.D. in Economics focused in Global Public Goods at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Spain. Today I found myself in Kellogg Institute at Notre Dame, Indiana in the United States spending one academic year as a Guest Scholar participating as a member of an USAID Programe developed in coordination with Universidad de Guadalajara and Mendoza Business School one of the five best business school in the world. In this programe I focus my research in environmental sustainable business. |
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Europe
1999-2001 - Cohort 8
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China
1996-1998 - Cohort 5
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LIU Ailing is an editor at China Architecture and Building Press, where she facilitates the publishing of scientific books related to the environment and building industries, such as environmental engineering, water and wastewater technology, and infrastructure engineering. She is also vice-director and manager of the third division. In addition, she has participated in numerous national and international academic activities such as the International Conference on Water and Wastewater Treatment in Beijing in 1994. She has written a number of scientific papers for Chinese academic magazines, including 'The Design and Operation of Anaerobic Filter' and 'The Application of the Solar Energy Water Heater'. She has also translated into Chinese a classical handbook on urban drainage and wastewater disposal. She received her bachelor's degree in engineering in 1987 from Tsinghua University.
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China
1993-1995 - Cohort 2
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Ma Aimin earned bachelor's and masters' degrees in geography from Peking University, China. since 1985, he has been working for the State Planning Commission. From 1995--1998,he was the deputy director of Environmental Management Division. After the government reorganization in 1998, he was appointed as the deputy director, Office of National Coordination Committee on Climate Change.
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Anglophone and West Africa
1996-1998 - Cohort 5
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Aisha Isyaku KIRU is the founder and coordinator of an NGO for women called the Forum for Environmental Protection (FOREP), which focuses on enlightening women on the importance of the environment and how they can contribute to its protection, both in terms of policy and physical contributions like tree planting. She also serves as human resources officer of Energy and Environmental Research Associates (EERA) and works with the Medical and Biochemistry schools of Bayerro University in Kano. She has authored papers on such topics as food additives, population and the environment, and media and the environment, and has organized workshops and activities on environmental awareness and protection including a three-day workshop on 'The Global Environment'. Her interests include gender issues, self-help activities, desertification remedy and control, waste management and energy-efficient technologies. A.I. Kiru received her bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Université Paul Sabatier in France and a master's degree in toxicology from the University of Surrey in the UK.
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Pakistan
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Francophone Africa
2009-2010 - Cohort 15
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Commonwealth of Independent States
1997-1999 - Cohort 6
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Aivar E. AILAROV is a senior professor and chair of ecology at North Ossetian State University, where he specializes in the problems of sustainable development in mountainous regions. He is co-author of 'Mountains of Ossetia', a publication of the governments of Russia and North Ossetia. His master's degree in geography is from North Ossetian State University.
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India
1995-1997 - Cohort 4
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Dr. Kumar has a master's degree in physics and a PHD degree in forestry from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Ajai Kumar joined the Indian Forest Service in 1986 and till 1992 worked with Forest Department in Manipur State in India. From 1993 to 1997 he worked with the National Afforestation and Eco-Development Board, which formulates and implements afforestation policies for the Ministry of Environment and Forests. He has been an advisor on forest management issues and was the member secretary of the High Power Committee constituted by the Supreme Court of India in 1997 to look into forest industries and forest management in the northeastern states. In 1998 he was awarded International Research Fellowship by the University of Melbourne, Austalia and from May 1998 to April 2001 he worked on his doctoral thesis in the University of Melbourne, Australia. His doctoral thesis is on 'Common Property Resource Management'. From October 2001 to November 2003 he worked as in charge of World Bank Forestry Project in Uttaranchal State of India. From November 2003 to December 2004 he worked with Forest Development Corporation in Uttaranchal State in India.From August 2005 to March 2010 Dr Kumar worked in the Ministries of Defence and Agriculture in Government of India. Presently Dr Kumar is the Senior Economist and Senior Country Coordinator of CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvment Center).
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India
1994-1996 - Cohort 3
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Mr. Kumar received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a Masters in structural engineering before joining the Indian Forest Service in 1987. Mr. Kumar is now working as Head, SAARC Forestry Centre, Bhutan. Prior to this he was worked as Joint Secretary Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi before that he was worked with various capacities with the Government of India; he manages and administers about 600 square kilometers of forest land and resources in the state of Himachal Pradesh. Confronted with very real aspects of environmental protection and sustainable development on a daily basis, his main priorities are protection, conservation, sustainable development of the forest wealth and improvement in the living conditions of the people living within the territory. Presently, he is pursuing a master of business administration at the Indira Gandhi National Open University in New Delhi.
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India
2000-2002 - Cohort 9
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Mr. Narayanan is currently the Head of the Sustainability and Climate Business Unit in the Global Financial Markets department at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. Also part of the Climate Business Group in IFC, his team is mandated with the role of growing the financing of climate change mitigation and sustainability projects through financial market clients of IFC in areas such as Sustainable Energy, Sustainable value chains, Cleaner Production, and sustainable logistics. He has experience both within and prior to IFC in looking at the sustainability aspects in emerging financial markets covering both E&S risk management as well as opportunities.
He has over 18 years experience in Environment health and Safety management associated with financial institutions, chemical and engineering industry. He has also worked on industrial loss prevention, alternative models for financing sustainable infrastructure, renewable energy, carbon finance and new technology areas. He has post graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Safety Engineering, is a Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management, London, a LEAD Fellow and an Associate life member of the Indian Society of Applied Behavioral Science. |
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Anglophone and West Africa
2001-2003 - Cohort 10
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India
1998-2000 - Cohort 7
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Ajit Kumar JHA is launching the GULF Tribune from Doha, Qatar in Feb-March 2006. He will be the Editor, of the new English-French daily, a fiercely independent editorially driven newspaper which plans to build a brand as respected in the Middle East as Al Jazeera, the TV channel broadcasted from Doha. These days Ajit is busy recruiting for the paper, working out strategic partnerships with other news agencies and newspapers globally and working out the editorial policy as well the layout, design, and other details.
Until recently, Ajit has been the Editor, of Oman Tribune, at Muscat, Oman. Ajit launched the Oman Tribune in 2004 and managed to turn the media market upside down in a short interval. Under Ajit’s leadership Oman Tribune turned out to be the number one editorial product of Oman. Ajit received Oman’s most prestigious award for his series on the paradoxes of Omanisation and liberalisation. In India, Ajit was a senior editor at India Today in New Delhi. India Today is the country's leading newsmagazine. He headed the election cell of the magazine and was the leading psephologist (pollster) for the TV Today networks (Aaj Tak and Headlines Today). Other than conducting national level opinion polls he wrote extensively on politics, development and other issues. In the past, Ajit has been the Senior Associate editor with The Indian Express in New Delhi. He looked after The Sunday Express and has also launched the Lucknow edition of the paper and has been a Resident Editor of the Bombay Edition. He was previously with The Times of India as their Resident Editor for the Patna edition and as a senior assistant editor for their editorial page in New Delhi. He also taught at the Times School of Journalism and Management. He has worked as an Assistant Editor for The Hindustan Times, in New Delhi and has been the California Correspondent for India Today. All three newspapers are leading English language dailies in India. He writes on subjects both global and local issues. Areas of special interest include international politics, democracy and economic development and the environment. AS a graduate student, Ajit attended the University of California, Los Angeles, USA for a doctorate in political science and has an M Litt in Politics from the University of Oxford, England. His research on Democracy and Development included finding the links between electoral outcomes and development programmes. At Oxford, he wrote a thesis on the politics of economic crisis. He has also taught at the UCLA for four years. He was awarded the Inlaks Scholarship and the Radhakrishnan Bequest while at Oxford, the American Institute of Indian Studies fellowship from the Smithsonian Foundation at the UCLA. He was also a Salzburg Seminarist and received the Lead Fellowship in 1998. He also attended the 10th World Report conference at the CNN headquarters in Atlanta and in New York. He is a LEAD Fellow. This biography was last updated on January 24, 2006 |
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India
1999-2001 - Cohort 8
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Ajith Vennyioor is a post-graduate in Sociology and Gandhian Philosophy and a P G diploma holder in Mass Communication.
Ajith is a keen student of Gandhian model of development, environmental issues and decentralised governance. He is former Member Secretary of Kerala Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, the State counterpart of Gandhi Memorial National Trust based in Rajghat, New Delhi. He started his career as a journalist and worked with two leading news papers, television channels and headed publication division of Kerala Gandhi Smarak Nidhi for about two decades. Ajith bagged three prestigious awards for development journalism in 1990s. He also worked with State Government as public relations officer of the State Literacy Mission for two years. He was in charge of establishing and coordinating continuing education centres as part of post literacy programme throughout the state and preparing reading materials, training modules, propaganda, publicity and training programs. The continuing education centres emphasize sustainable eco-friendly development. He has also promoted organic farming, appropriate technology and eco-friendly development through the preparation of related information and publicity materials and by facilitating training programs. He has participated in several training programmes in India and abroad. He is also a development / environment writer and author of eleven books out of which five are on environmental issues. He worked as consulting editor and extension faculty with Kerala Institute of Local Administration [KILA], Thrissur, a State Government institution dedicated for capacity development of elected representatives and officials of local governments, during 2004-2007. He edited four journals/news letters and 32 books. Ajith is presently State Public Relations Officer, Kerala State Poverty Eradication Mission- Kudumbashree, Department of Local Self Government, Government of Kerala (www.kudumbashree.org) He is also a faculty member in the areas of Journalism and Public Relations in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan College of Communication and Management, Thiruvananthapuram |
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Anglophone and West Africa
2010-2011 - Cohort 16
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Japan
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Akiko KAWAGUCHI is a Program Assistant, as she provides administrative and logistical support for LEAD Japan, including all preparation for the National Training Sessions, communication with LEAD International, management of inventory and files, and arrangements for National Steering Committee and Curriculum Committee meetings.
A. Kawaguchi graduated from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor's degree in Asian Studies and Biological Sciences. During her undergraduate years, she participated in a study abroad program in China and worked as a teaching assistant. During her senior year, she worked at the college's Environmental Studies Program where she assisted in editing the journal International Environmental Affairs. She also worked on a project that created an Internet-based database of environmental agreements and treaties. |
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Anglophone and West Africa
1998-2000 - Cohort 7
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Akinola Moruf AKINREMI is a quality assurance manager at UAC Foods, a Division of UACN PLC. He is interested in waste management and recycling and impact of development on the environment. His bachelor's degree in microbiology is from the University of Ilorin, and his master's in the same subject is from the University of Lagos. He also holds a post-graduate diploma in marketing from the Nigerian Institute of Journalism.
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Anglophone and West Africa
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Anglophone and West Africa
1996-1998 - Cohort 5
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Akinrinola Oyegoke OMIGBODUN, a qualified and chartered architect and estate surveyor, is chief executive officer of Habitat Publications, Ltd., publisher of 'Habitat Magazine', a journal on housing, environment and construction. Before setting up Habitat Publications, he worked with Prudential Funds Management Group and was a resident architect for a construction company. A. O. Omigbodun is interested in environmental projects management and education. He is a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Environmental Design and Management, Obafemi Awolowo University, lle-lfe and is coordinator of an NGO called Agents for Nigerian Good Environment and Living Standards (ANGELS).
He has a master's degree in architecture from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, a master's degree in business administration from the University of Iiorin, and a post-graduate diploma in estate management from the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers in Lagos. |
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Anglophone and West Africa
1997-1999 - Cohort 6
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Akintunde Babatope (Tunde) IMOLEHIN, an architect and environmental media consultant, is the chief executive officer at Shelter Communications, a private company that specializes in publishing, advertising, television production, media and public relations consultancy with a particular emphasis on human settlements, development and environmental issues. He is also the principal partner of Forms and Spaces, an environmentally sensitive firm of architects, planners, property managers and developers. He continues to produce and present programs for television intended to draw the attention of government and the public to the issues of development.
A.B. Imolehin recently founded 'Earthwatch Foundation', an NGO focused on environmental advocacy, monitoring and communication. He is also a community education consultant to the Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund, a fund set up by the government of Nigeria to rehabilitate infrastructural facilities in rural and urban areas for sustainable development. In 1996, the Junior Chamber International (JAYCEES) awarded him the 'Outstanding Young Person Award' in the moral and environment category; he also is the recipient of the pioneer award for environmental achievement and excellence presented by the Nigerian Federal Environmental Protection Agency. He has a bachelor's and master's degree in architecture from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. |
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Anglophone and West Africa
1998-2000 - Cohort 7
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Akinwumi Oluwasade AREOLA is the chief executive of TRANS-NATIONWIDE EXPRESS PLC, The only courier and freight company quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Before then, he was Chief Executive of Astron Ventures Limited, a consultancy that is also involved in the production of a computerized identity card for the purposes of personal identification, access control and time management. Previously, he worked with the leading courier companies DHL International Nigeria Ltd. and Red Star Express. He is interested in the promotion of environmental education and awareness among the different strata of the society.
His bachelor's degree in political science (1983) and master's degree in public administration (1986) are both from the University of Benin in Benin City. He has also attended several local and international training seminars in sales, marketing, management, leadership and computer skills. |
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Japan
1998-2000 - Cohort 7
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OKADA Akira is a researcher of Institute for Transport Policy Studies.
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Anglophone and West Africa
2007-2008 - Cohort 13
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Dr, Alabi S.O. SONEYE, is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography of the University of Lagos, Nigeria. His primary areas of specialization are GIS, Remote Sensing, Mapping, Resource Analysis, Spatial Analysis and Environment. He has had over 14 years experience as a University lecturer. He has also consulted for several private, public and international organizations and consortiums in Nigeria and abroad.
Dr. Soneye graduated B.A. Geography from the University of Lagos, Nigeria . He also obtained an M.Sc. (Geography & Planning, Specialization in Remote Sensing, Resource Evaluation and Cartography). He had his doctorate degree (Ph.D) in Geography (Specialization in GIS, Remote Sensing, Mapping/Map Revision, Environmental Resources and Studies, all from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He is a member of the Nigerian Geographical Society, Nigerian Cartographic Association, Nigerian Society of Remote Sensing of Environment, African Association of Remote Sensing of Environment, and Intergraph User Group. |
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Europe
2010-2011 - Cohort 16
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Commonwealth of Independent States
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Canada
1997-1999 - Cohort 6
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Alan ABELSOHN is a family physician in private practice in Toronto. He is also a lecturer in environmental health at Centre for Environment, University of Toronto, and in the Department of Family and Community Medicine.He is past-chair of the Ontario College of Family Physicians environmental health committee, a board member of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) and past-co-chair of the Health Professionals Task Force, International Joint Commission (IJC). He is active as a consultant in numerous projects of environmental health at the university, with medical organizations and with NGOs, with a focus on the health aspects of air pollution, climate change, toxics and urban issues.
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Europe
1997-1999 - Cohort 6
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Albena SIMEONOVA is vice chair of the Bulgarian Green Federation. She is also the founder of the Union of Democratic Forces and the Bulgarian Green Party in Botevgrad. Prior to this, she was the executive director of the Foundation for Environmental Education and Training. She was awarded the 'Goldman' environmental prize in 1996 for outstanding environmental achievement in Europe and in 1997 was one of 25 women leaders who received the UNEP environmental award, '25 years UNEP.'
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