David Bilham

David is a long-term standing humanitarian aid worker who has supported in different emergency responses in the northeastern part of Nigeria and has gradually shifted attention from emergency to early recovery and now a development expert working in the food security and Agriculture sector.

David currently supports the response in project management, in the food and Agricultural food systems and works with the Advancing Local Dairy Development in Nigeria (ALDDN) as senior program officer, in close collaboration with interlocutors both at state, local and community levels with very close interaction with community leaders to ensure system development and capacity strengthening.
Prior to joining Sahel, David worked at INTERSOS Humanitarian Organization, Special Project Programmes Unit (SPPU). He worked with World Food Programme (WFP), UN-OCHA and BMGF funded projects.

David is graduate of Animal Science and master’s degree in Animal Production from former Federal University of Technology, Yola. A registered Animal Scientist with National Institute of for Animal Science (NIAS) and completed several professional courses including food system course from Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (WCDI).