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Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
First Name: Michal

Last Name: Demes
Birth Date: September 23, 1957
Nationality: Slovak
Marital Status: Married, 3 children
   
Address Home: Šafárikova 688/4, 95201 Vráble, Slovenská republika
Phone: + 421 37 783 35 98
E-mail: michal.demes@ffmm.sk
   
Address Work: FAO REU, Benczur ucta 34, 1068, Budapest, Hungary
Phone: (36-1) 461 20 26
Fax: (36-1) 351 70 29
E-mail: michal.demes@fao.org
   
Web: www.ffmm.sk/michaldemes

Education and Training
1976 - 1981 Slovak Agricultural University, Nitra, Faculty of Agronomy, Zooengineering department
1989 - 1998 Different courses of foreign languages (English, Russian)
1995 - 2008 Microsoft computer courses

Qualification
From 1996 Agriculture and Information Management, Small scale traditional and ecological family farming.

Work experiences
1981 - 1982 1 year in Czechoslovak Army
1982 - 1988 7 years working as a farmer in collective and state agriculure farms
1989 1 year working as a scientist in ISTIA Nitra
1990 - 1997 7 years working as a director of ISTIA Nitra
1996 - present farmer, free time work on the small family biofarm
1998 - 2005 7 years working as a Information Management Specialist, FAO SEUR, Budapest
2006 - present Information and Knowledge Management Officer, FAO REU, Budapest

Short term working experiences in agricultural information institutions:
Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Ukraine, USA.

Several managing activities such as national and international conferences, agricultural roundtables, exhibitions, workshops, experts meetings etc.
 
Language skills Slovak, Czech, Hungarian - native
Russian, English - fluent

Interests
Philosophy - Practical Idealism, Traditional organic family farming