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Colleagues in

Motion

©FAO/G. Robinson (photo taken before the COVID-19 pandemic)

Teri Neer Svetlana Velmeskina Victoria Chomo
Office Assistant Office Assistant Senior Fishery Officer
Global & Regional Processes Team for Global & Regional Processes Team for Global & Regional Processes Team for
Sustainable Aquaculture Sustainable Aquaculture Sustainable Aquaculture

Teri, a national from the United States of Svetlana, a Russian national, has been Victoria Chomo has a PhD in economics,
America, recently rejoined the Fisheries seconded to the Global and Regional (MSc and BSc in agricultural Economics) from
Division in August 2020. She completed her Processes Team of the Fisheries Division for five North Carolina State University, USA. She
B.A. at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, months as Office Assistant. Svetlana studied was an economist in the U.S. Department
Indiana and has an M.A. in Art History from Accounting and Economics; Hospitality and of Agriculture (1991-1995) and the U.S.
Richmond, the American International Tourism Management in Russia. She spent first International Trade Commission (1999-2002)
University in London. She joined FAO in 2005, years of her career in tourism related fields. before joining the United Nations in 2002
serving as an Operations Clerk for the Near Svetlana moved to Thailand in 2011, where (Beirut, UNESCWA; Geneva, UNCTAD).
East and North Africa Desk in the Emergency she worked as Accompanying Assistant at the She moved to the FAO in 2011, namely the
and Rehabilitation Division. From 2012 to tour operating company. She joined FAO in Fisheries and Aquaculture Department and
2015, she provided administrative support April 2016 as Temporary Assistant at the Plant to the Regional Office for Europe and Central
to the Marine and Inland Fisheries Branch Production and Protection Division, providing Asia (FAOREU) in 2017 as Senior Fisheries
as well as programme and budget support administrative and secretarial support. In and Aquaculture Officer and Secretary of two
to the Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources 2018, she was assigned for six months to the regional fisheries bodies. In May 2021 she
Use and Conservation Division. After which Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention, and will leave the sustainable aquaculture team
she worked with the Sustainable Agriculture later she joined the Aquaculture branch. In of NFI to join the FAO Liaison Office with
Programme Management Team (SP2). From 2020, Svetlana moved to the Plant Production the European Union and Belgium (FAOLOB)
November 2016 to August 2020, she was the and Protection Division as Office Assistant. in Brussels, mainly supporting FAO fisheries
Programme Assistant for the Inclusive Rural Svetlana can be reached at: and aquaculture activities with the EU and its
Transformation and Gender Equality Division. Member States. She will continue to serve as
Svetlana.Velmeskina@fao.org
Teri can be reached at: Secretary of the European Inland Fisheries and
Aquaculture Advisory Commission (EIFAAC).
Teri.Neer@fao.org
Victoria can be reached at:
Victoria.Chomo@fao.org

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