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Regional Director
International Cooperative Alliance
Asia and Pacific<\/p>\n
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Mr. Balu Iyer <\/b>has over 30 years of experience in managing international development operations, overseeing multiple country offices, and building new offices from the ground up. He worked in India in cooperative development before moving abroad to work on Asian regional concerns for overseas agencies in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Korea, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka. Previously, he worked with the Aga Khan Rural Support Program, ActionAid India, International Development Exchange and the Asia Foundation. He holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley, U.S.A., a Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management from the Institute of Rural Management at Anand, India, and a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Civil Engineering from the National Institute of Technology at Durgapur, India.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mr. Balu IyerRegional DirectorInternational Cooperative Alliance Asia and PacificMr. Balu Iyer has over 30 years of experience in managing international development operations, overseeing multiple country offices, and building new offices from the ground up. He worked in India in cooperative development before moving abroad to work on Asian regional concerns for overseas agencies in Afghanistan, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"2880","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}