Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Ressourcenökonomie

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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture
Department of Agricultural Economics
Division of Resource Economics
Invalidenstr. 42, Room 1127
D-10099 Berlin

Germany

Phone

+49-30-2093-8300

Fax

+49-30-2093-6497

Email

ahmad.hamidov (at) agrar.hu-berlin.de

• Institutions for water management and conditions for sustainable water consumers associations in Uzbekistan
• Institutional economics: development of institutions in the area of natural resources
• Experimental economics: field and lab
• Regional focus: Central Asia (Uzbekistan)

10.02 – 08.05

Research Fellow at the Partnership for Resources and Environmental Management Analysis (PREMA), joint Project with Washington State University (United States) and Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration (TIIM)

• participating in various surveys on Sustainable Development of Water Users Associations (WUAs);
• taking part in the conferences and seminars organized by the Project, and preparing annual reports on Water and Environmental Management.

05.05 – 06.05

Visiting scholar at the Washington State University (WSU), United States and a member of the team for Economical Policy Analysis Course Development Program.

• taking a class at Social & Economic Sciences Research Center on survey research design, methods, analysis;
• working with WSU faculty members on developing a new cost & return budget survey for Uzbekistan’s newly established WUAs.

01.05 - 04.05

Research Assistant on the survey of Private Farmers Production Factor Analysis in Tashkent and Djizakh Region´s Water Users Associations (WUAs), Uzbekistan, group of 250 private farmers. PREMA Partnership for Resources & Environmental Management Analysis Project (joint project with WSU & TIIM).

• preparing the questionnaires and surveying farmers;
• entering data and writing international report in Russian and English languages;
• carrying out a statistical data analysis with the help of SPSS Program (tabulation and regression analysis).

02.04 – 06.04

Visiting scholar at the Washington State University (WSU), United States and a member of the team for Environmental and Natural Resources Economics Course Development Program.

• attending Microeconomics, Theory of the Firm & Market Policy, Natural Resource Economics, Water law and Math Modeling and Linear Equation classes.

Master of Science

Bachelor of Science

Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration

Graduate studies in Marketing in Water Resources, 2002-2004

Diploma thesis on "Application of Water Pricing to the Newly-Established Water Users Associations (Pilot Area – Tashkent Region, Uzbekistan) "
Award of degree: Diploma with Highest Honors (with final grade: Excellent), July 2004

Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration

Undergraduate studies in Water Management, 1998-2002

Award of degree: Diploma with Highest Honors (with final grade: Excellent), June 2002

International Degree

European Joint Master in Water and Coastal Management

University of Cadiz, Spain (I-semester), University of Algarve, Portugal (II-semester), 2005-2007

Award of degree: Master of Science Diploma (with final grade: Very Good), April 2007

Course: Microeconomics at the Department of Management and Economy of Water Resources, together with Sandjar Djalalov, fall & winter semesters 2004/05.

10.09 – 05.10

International Short-term Consultant, Independent Evaluation Department (IED), Asian Development Bank (ADB), Tashkent Residence, Uzbekistan

• facilitating IED missions related to the preparation of the sector assistance program evaluation (SAPE) in education, agriculture and water resources, and water; and project performance evaluation reports in the transport sector in Uzbekistan;
  
• contributing to the evaluation study related to the agriculture and water resources, including the identification of relevant sector issues; and
  
• assisting in the evaluation of ADB’s water policy and related operations.

09.07 – 09.09

Junior Professional Associate, Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), The World Bank, Washington DC, United States

• writing a case study on IWRM in Central Asia. Field visits to Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan;
• evaluating the World Bank's water-related projects. Desk-based project evaluations of Tunisia and Moldova; and
• reviewing the Bank's water portfolio and writing background papers on specific topics, such as World Rivers & Lakes, Coastal Zone Management, Reservoirs, and Irrigation & Drainage.

05.07 – 08.07

International Short-term Consultant, Sustainable Development Division, World Bank Institute, Washington DC, United States

• reviewing previous and on-going water management reforms in Central Asia, focus on Uzbekistan;
• analyzing current conditions of the Uzbek Water Users Associations (WUAs); and
• preparing a report based on findings from the literature review and field trip, and slide presentation.

Academic Awards:

• Granted for privilege to audit Master level courses at Washington State University (WSU), USA, as an exchange student on Agricultural and Resources Economics field, supported by USA Government (participated);
• Fellowship to participate in the Masters Program in Water Resources Management, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand; Institute Fellowship Program, (not participated).

Memberships:

• REI International Information Center library at TIIAME
• Association of Uzbekistan for Sustainable Water Resources Development – SUVCHI – NGO
• Russian State Library, Moscow, Russia

Publications

Publications (pdf)