Ana Madigibuli Dr Mohseen Riaz-Ud Dean. Picture: SUPPLIED Doctor Mohseen Riaz- Ud Dean (PhD) is the head of communication research and ethnographic solutions mapping at the UNDP accelerator lab-Pacific in Fiji and is an anthropologist. Name: Dr. Mohseen Riaz-Ud-Dean (PhD) Occupation: Head of Community Research and Ethnographic Solutions Mapping at UNDP, Pacific Office in Suva Age: 35 What sort of upbringing did you have as a child and how has it have an impact on your life? I was born and brought up in a rural village-like setting at Hangar Rd, Nausori. My dad was also brought up there where he started his career in an extended family business as a fisherman. He later took up the trade of cabinet making and joinery at J. S. Hill and Associates in Lami. My mum was born in Lakeba, Lau and moved with my grandparents to Chadwick Rd in Nakasi. Currently I am living with my wife and a toddler daughter, my parents and my youngest sibling in Vuci South Rd, Nausori and I’m the eldest of four siblings. Life had been a struggle when I was growing up because my parents had four children to look after, but at the same time it was rewarding thanks to the Almighty. I was fortunate to have always excelled in studies from my primary school days and my mum always had a stick behind my back during my early school days. Likewise, I always have this search for knowledge from cradle to grave motto in mind that was taught to us at Suva Muslin College. Similarly, I knew from the beginning that for a better life, you need education and education doesn’t come walking towards you, you have to work towards it and you have to work hard to achieve it.