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Shemdoe, Riziki Silas is Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries, and Associate Research Professor of Agroecology. He holds PhD in Applied Biological Sciences majored in Agro-ecology from Ghent University (Belgium), a Master of Science in Management of Natural Resources for Sustainable Agriculture and a Bachelor of Science in Forestry both from Sokoine University of Agriculture (Morogoro Tanzania). He started his carrier in academia raising ranks from Assistant Research Fellow to Research Associate Professor at Ardhi University Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is one of the scientists in Tanzania who managed to attract research funding and managed over 50 research projects and programs. He has supervised over 25 Masters and Ph.D. candidates who have graduated under his mentorship. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed Scientific articles, majority in high impact journals hosted by Elsevier, Science Direct, Kluwer Academic, Springer, and Taylor & Francis publishing houses.

He has held various positions in the public service including Director of Postgraduate Studies, Research and Publications at Ardhi University from 2011 to 2016, Presidential appointments to serve as District Executive Director of Mufindi District Council from 2016 to 2018, Regional Administrative Secretary (RAS) of Ruvuma Region from 2018 to 2019, and between 2019 to date Permanent Secretary in the following Ministries: Ministry of Industry and Trade; President’s Office – Regional Administration and Local Government, and currently Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries. Professor Shemdoe is a very dynamic person managing to transform himself from academia to local governments, and all the way to central government each with its own lifestyle and intricacies. This is due to his exceptional interpersonal skills in terms of participatory governance, transparency, hardworking, endurance, integrity, and respect.