Being A Different Kind Of CV
Globally Yours, William Dar Today Danumán, tomorrow the world!? Today, the drylands. It’s the water. There is pleasant irony in the fact that William Dollente Dar comes from a village called Danumán West in the lowlands of Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur, Philippines while he was ensconced as the Chair of the Committee on Science & Technology (CST) starting at the September 3-14 meeting of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), with 191 countries having signed the Convention – a very high honor. Danumán indicates, from danúm ( water in Ilocano, his native tongue) a waterlogged or watery place while desertification suggests all sand and hardly a drop of moisture . Extremes. Givens that he learned to accept and work from there. Where he is now, Dar is high and dry, safe above the water, although with a new, top-level responsibility. He is quietly happy for this added window of service to peoples in Africa, Asia, Latin America. It shows in his face. He is quite hap