Dengue Prevention & Control: The Lahore Model of Success (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781478225454)

As Director General for the Provincial Disaster Management Authority, Punjab. Khalid Sherdil worked on Pakistan's largest ever disaster, the Super Floods of 2010. Khalid has worked on seven major disasters, including the Turkish Earthquake 2011, Sindh Floods 2011, Balochistan Floods 2012 and the Sialkot Tornado 2011. Besides Dengue, Sherdil has also written a technical report for Ontario Government through Western University on West Nile virus, another mosquito vector epidemic. Sherdil was the Project Director of the Model Villages Project ($20 million), in which 22 villages equipped with schools, technical training centers, dispensaries, parks, solar electricity, bio-gas, etc., were constructed from scratch all over Punjab's Flood areas. He also led the project for disbursement of flood-damage compensation ($ 325 million in form of debit cards) to over 1 million flood-affected families of Punjab. He is a member of Pakistan's Core Committee for Environment and Climate Change, and has represented the country at COP 16 Cancun, Mexico. Sherdil has worked at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Sempra at their Energy Trading & Risk Management desk in Stamford, CT, USA. He has also worked for Sapient on I.T. projects for Citadel (Chicago, IL), Louis Dreyfus (Danbury, CT) and Tullett Prebon (Wall Street, NY). Sherdil has served as the Deputy Secretary for I.T. Department, and for Agriculture Department, Government of the Punjab. Pakistan. His interest in Agriculture arises from his family farm where he cultivates wheat & rice in addition to Bio-Fuels. Earlier, he served as Assistant Commissioner of Murree and Lahore. Sherdil has Masters and Bachelors degrees in Computer Science (McGill University, QC, Canada and Washington University, MO, USA), and a Liberal Arts Bachelors in Physics (College of Wooster, OH, USA). He is also an Electrical & Computer Engineer (Washington University, MO, USA). He is currently obtaining a Doctoral degree in Computer and Environmental Science (Western University, ON, Canada). His research interests are in use of Cloud Computing for Early Warning in Complex Adaptive Systems using Multi-Agent-SWARMS, and in Technology for sustainable development. Sherdil has twelve research publications in International Conferences/Journals. He also runs Pakistan's largest arts website www.ArtsPak.com and is a Fellow of LEAD International UK. He is currently co-authoring a photographic book on the Model Villages and the Rural life of Punjab.