ILDC 2021 Speakers on 21rd Nov 2021 ASIA DAY
Geminiano Sandoval ANGOC |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-01″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Geminiano Sandoval is a lawyer from the Philippines. He is also involved in public policy and governance [/expand] |
Benni Wijaya KPA (Indonesia) |
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Denise Hyacinth Joy Musni ANGOC |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-04″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Denise is a researcher, development worker, and Deputy Executive Director of ANGOC. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science, and is presently pursuing graduate studies in Demography. She joined ANGOC in 2017, and most of her work with the network has been in pursuit of ANGOC’s land rights program area. She has also worked on academic research on migration and peri-urban development. |
V B Rawat, SDF(India) |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-06″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Vidya Bhushan Rawat is a human rights defender with over 30 years work with grassroots movements on Land Rights issues of the most marginalised sections of Indian society. He is an author of over 22 books and has written extensively on the issues of Dalits, Adivasis and peasants on the issue of farm crisis in India. He has also made numerous documentaries and documented issues of Dalits and Adivasis. He founded the Social Development Foundation in 1998 and continues to focus on the land reform issues |
Nathaniel Don Marquez ANGOC |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-08″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Nathaniel Don Marquez has been with the civil society movement since 1989. For the past 28 years, Don has been with the Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC), a regional network of civil society organizations working on food sovereignty, land rights, sustainable agriculture and participatory governance. |
Roni Septian KPA (Indonesia) |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-9a” text-color=”#f5f300″] Roni is the head of Policy Advocacy Department in Consortium for Agrarian Reform (KPA).
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Nhek Sarin Star Kampuchea |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-02″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Nhek Sarin has more than 20 years of experience in managing, coordinating and advising between 9 and 25 national and international staff of the non-profit organizations and state institutions. Sarin worked for two years with the National Assembly as Head of the Information and Library Office, 11 years with STAR Kampuchea (SK) as Executive Director, and five years with Forum Syd as Program Manager/Program Coordinator/ Organizational Development Advisor. Currently, Sarin is the Deputy Executive Director and concurrent Fundraising and Organizational Development Advisor of Star Kampuchea. [/expand] |
Shah Mobbin Jinnah CDA (Bangladesh) |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-05″ text-color=”#f5f300″] SHAH I MOBIN JINNAH (72 years) is the founding Executive Director of Community Development Association (CDA), in Bangladesh. He is a member of several Development Networking Organizations at National, Regional and International levels. He has got longest experience from the realities over 4 decades in the field of Rural Development, Land Rights, Land Use and Agrarian Reform in South Asian perspective. He is one of the popular development initiator and Human Rights activist and the Land Rights defender from south Asia. Academically, being a Sociologist working with the rural peasants from the community level to constituency level, he is actively involved in different social and mass movements against the injustice and discrimination in his areas deductively. Since long with the principles of the People Centered Land Governance with a view to release from hunger & poverty and for in equalities through building up an alternative structure for empowering the disempowered and for excluded people’s participation from the grassroots for social transformation. He is the member of Land Watch Asia of LRBHR, ANGOC & ILC. At the moment Mr.Mobin Jinnah is the member of IP & Ethnic Minorities Land Right Policy formulation committee under the NHRC in Bangladesh. |
Jagat Basnet, CSRC(Nepal) |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-07″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Jagat Bahadur Basnet is a policy researcher, development practitioner and founding member of the community Self-reliance Centre (CSRC), the non-violence movement based social organization and PhD from Rhodes University South Africa on de- peasantisation in Nepal. Currently, he is serving the Provincial Policy and Planning Commission, the government think-tank, of Bagmati Province as a Vice-Chairperson. He has been facilitating the land and agrarian rights movement in Nepal since 1994 mainly through formation and promotion of peoples’ organizations, Land Rights Forums for comprehensive land and agrarian reform in Nepal. That has resulted in a people led land reform model. |
Dr Shekhar Shah Former NCAER Director General & World Bank Regional Economic Adviser for South Asia. |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-12″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr Shekhar Shah was until recently the Director General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research in New Delhi. As the CEO during 2011-21 of India’s oldest and largest, independent, non-profit, economic think tank, he managed NCAER’s wide-ranging research across all sectors of the economy, including its extensive data collection, analytical, and curation activities. He is credited with NCAER’s outstanding institutional transformation, the redevelopment of its new, world-class campus, and the significant role NCAER now plays in economic research and public policy discussions in India. [/expand] |
Kashish Gupta CLRA |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-10″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Kashish Gupta, is a penultimate year law student from New Delhi, India. She has worked with State Commissions for the enforcement of Child’s Rights and with the Enforcement Directorate against cases of money laundering and corruption. She has also worked with Supreme Court Litigators in pursuance of her interest in public policy, feminist governance, and social justice. |
Dr. Usha Ramnathan Senior Law Researcher and Human Rights Activist |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-09″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Usha Ramanathan is an internationally recognized expert on law and poverty. She studied law at Madras University, the University of Nagpur, and Delhi University. |
Marianne Naungayan ANGOC |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-11″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Marianne is human settlements planning major who has been working in the development field since 2013. She was previously engaged in academic research in the urban sector before joining ANGOC in 2014. Since then, she has served as a Project Officer of ANGOC, mainly involved in research and campaigns on agrarian reform, land use, and indigenous peoples. She is also a licensed Environmental Planner, and has been involved in a few local development planning projects in other provinces in the Philippines [/expand] |
Mrinali Karthick Land Conflict Watch |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-11b” text-color=”#f5f300″] Mrinali manages the Land Conflict Watch database and leads collaborations with researchers, journalists and institutions to map, understand and analyse land conflicts data.[/expand] |
Dr. Rikcardo Simamtara University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-13″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Rikardo Simarmata is a professor at the University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and a researcher on land and natural resources. He has 20 years’ experience in the field of natural resource law with a special focus on customary rights over land and forest resources. Since 2015, he has been researching the recognition and protection of customary land rights; regional development and indigenous peoples’ rights; settlement of forest tenure conflicts; the definition of the legal personality of indigenous peoples; legal enforcement in cases of forest fires set by small holders; and customary land tenure systems |
Dr. Mai Van Phan Deputy Director General, General Director of Land Adminstration MoNRE, Government of Vietnam. |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-15″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Mai Van Phan holds a doctoral degree in land administration and management. He has been the General Director for Land Administration (GDLA) of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Government of Vietnam. Currently, he is the Deputy Director General responsible for land policy and legal development and land administration in GDLA. [/expand] |
Dr Dzung The Nguyen Vietnam. |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-17″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Dzung The Nguyen is an agricultural and rural development specialist. He has over 35 years’ experience working with national and international development institutions in Vietnam. Till 2015, he worked at the World Bank Office in Hanoi as Senior Rural Development Specialist, a successful 14-year career in rural and land policy development and design and implementation of investments in land administration, rural finance, and information technology for sustainable and inclusive development. Currently, Dr. Dzung is serving as Land Policy Advisor for the Mekong Region Land Governance Project (MRLG). He provides MRLG and its alliances in the country with strategic advice on land policy framework and with technical inputs to protect tenure rights of small holders, especially women and ethnic minorities.
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U Shwe Thein Executive Director, |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-14″ text-color=”#f5f300″] U Shwe Thein is a forester, used to a lecturer at Institute of Forestry, Yezin (1981 – 1998), a development worker (1998 – at present), Freelance for OD & Leadership coaching & mentoring, Executive Director or Team Leader of Land Core Group (2011 – at present), practicing OD, Institutional capacity building, leadership coaching & mentoring, and leading land governance improvement intervention for the people in Myanmar [/expand] |
 Dr. Trias AdityaUniversity of Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta, Indonesia  |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-16″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Trias Aditya teaches land administration and management with a particular focus on spatial data infrastructure, land information systems, and geoinformatics for land tenure recognition and land use management. He currently heads the Geodetic Engineering department at the Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He has published several papers on his fields of study and research in Land, Land Use Policy, Transactions in GIS, and other such journals. He has worked in various capacities (such as mapping expert, technical consultant, etc.) with national ministries and agencies of the Government of Indonesia and others such as Ministry of Agrarian and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency, Geospatial Information Agency, Peatland Restoration Agency, National Agency for Disaster Management USAID/IFACS, AusAID/AIFDR and others. ———————————————————————–
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 Mr. Vinod AgarwalFormer Additional Chief secretary (Land Revenue Department) Telangana State |
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Ram Prakash Singh Danuwar Habitat for Humanity Nepal |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-19″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Ram Prakash Danuwar works passionately with highly marginalized and socially excluded families to find their voice to access their rights focusing on land and housing. Coming from a marginalized group himself, Ram has empathetically worked for 20 years to bring systematic change in Nepal advocating with the Government for groups such as landless, poor vulnerable and socially excluded ethnic minority, Dalit (So called untouchable cast), ex-bonded labour, Haliyas. As the Program Operations Manager at Habitat for Humanity Nepal, Ram has progressively worked towards a partnership with the Government of Nepal to build safe and affordable housing for marginalized families with secure land tenures registered jointly in the name of husband and wife. His keen interest in land rights also comes from his background in Natural Resource Management. |
Jagat Deuja Former Expert Member, (LIRC), Nepal |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-20″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Mr. Jagat Deuja is currently working as an Executive Director of Community Self Reliance Centre (CSRC). He is a renowned land right activist who has been involved in the land rights movement for more than two decades. He was directly involved in the number of land related policy and laws making processes and contributed to include pro-poor agendas in those policies and laws. He was an expert member of the Land Issues Resolving Commission (April 2020 – August 2021). He published a number of articles in national papers and journals on land, land use and poverty issues. ———————————————————————– He can be accessed at deujaj@csrcnepal.org [/expand] |
Dr. Reshma Shrestha Assistant Professor, Kathmandu University, Nepal |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-22″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Reshma Shrestha is an Assistant Prof. in the Department of Geomatics Engineering at Kathmandu University. Dr. Shrestha has more than ten years of experience in the academic field. Besides academics, she has professional experience in many projects related to the application of geo-information technology in land management. She was the Co-chair of the working group in FIG commission 2 from 2015 to 2018. She has coordinated international conferences like “Transparency Land Administration in 2010” and recently “FOSS4G-Asia 2021” which was successfully conducted in hybrid mode. Her research interest is in the domain of Urban Land Governance, Land Use Planning, and Management for tackling societal issues like informal settlements, gender mainstreaming by applying Geo-information Technologies. She holds a Ph.D. in the Title “Understanding Urban Land Governance through” Action Space”: Implications for Access to Land for Low-Income Housing in Managing Informal Settlements” from the Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, the Netherlands. [/expand] |
Dharm Raj Joshi National Coordinator, (LGWG) Nepal |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-19A” text-color=”#f5f300″] Mr. Dharm Raj Joshi (M.A.), a researcher and development worker with more than 8 years’ work experience in Nepalese development sector. Currently, he is working as national coordinator for ILC’s National Engagement strategy (NES) in Nepal and facilitating the multi-stakeholder platform on people centered land governance called Land Governance Working Group – LGWG. Previously, he served COLARP – a national level research-based organization as Executive Director. He has received national and international fellowships for policy research and professional courses for land governance. He has been actively advocating for people centered land reform in Nepal. ———————————————————————– For details of Land Governance Working Group (LGWG) please visit https://lgwg.org/ [/expand] |
 Dr. Purna Bahadur Nepali,Associate Professor, (KU SOM) |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-21″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Purna Bahadur Nepali is Associate Professor, and Program Director, Master of Public Policy and Management (MPPM), Kathmandu University School of Management (KU SOM), Balkumari, Lalitpur. Dr. Nepali is Research Fellow (non-resident), Harvard Kennedy School and Hutchins Center, Harvard University, US where he is undertaking his research on political economy of Inclusive Agrarian Transformation: Comparative Analysis of Race-Caste of US and Nepal/South-Asia. He has recently completed his Fulbright Visiting Research Fellowship (2017-18) in Global Development and Sustainability at Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, USA. His research interest is public and social policy, inclusive growth, social inclusion, and rural/agrarian issues. As a lead editor of the Journal- New Angle, he recently edited a special issue of the peer reviewed article called Agrarian and Land Issues that can be found here: http://www.nepalpolicynet.com/new/new-angle/new-angle-december-2016/. ———————————————————————– He can be accessed at purna@kusom.edu.np, kumar2034@gmail.com, pnepali@g.harvard.edu [/expand] |
 Mr. Deepak SananIAS (Retd), former- Addl Chief Secretary, HP and former Advisor to NCAER, IIHS & CPR |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-23″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Deepak Sanan retired from the Indian Administrative Service in 2017, where he was attached to the State of Himachal Pradesh. He held senior positions in public finance, land governance, and the water and sanitation sectors at both the State and national levels. He also had significant tenures in the health, urban development, and power sectors. Currently, he is an adviser for projects on water and sanitation and land governance at a number of institutions in India. He has been a Consultant with the World Bank, IFAD, DFID, IDS Sussex, and AusAid. He has also served as the India Country Team Leader in the Water and Sanitation Program (South Asia) at the World Bank. [/expand] |
Dr. Walter Fernandes S.J. North Eastern Social Research Centre, India. |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-24″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr Walter Fernandes, formerly Director of the Institute, Director of Research, Director of Tribal Studies, and Editor of Social Action at Indian Social Institute, New Delhi (1977-99) founded North Eastern Social Research Centre, Guwahati (NESRC) and was its Director till 2011. He was later Senior Fellow and once again Director of NESRC. He has done extensive research on tribal issues, land and livelihood, development-induced displacement, gender issues and conflicts and peace. He has more than 50 books, over 200 professional articles and 150 newspaper articles on these issues to his credit. (walter.nesrc@gmail.com) |
Saw Dao Wah Deputy Program Director, Land Core Group, Yangon |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-26″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Mr. Saw Doh Wah, Deputy Program Director, Land Core Group, has around 20 years’ experience in the field of climate change, environmental governance, and land and natural resource governance. His career has spanned government service, UN agency work, and a productive stint with International Alert. He is a forestry graduate from the University of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, Myanmar. He also holds Master’s Degrees in Forestry and Rural Development from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, in addition to a Master’s in Theology from the Myanmar Institute of Theology. He can be reached at: sdwah@lcgmyanmar.org [/expand] |
Naw Ei Ei Min |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-26c” text-color=”#f5f300″] Naw Ei Ei Min received the U.S. Embassy’s Women of Change award on March 16 (2017). She is the Director of POINT (Promotion of Indigenous and Nature Together), Myanmar and Executive Council Member of Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP). which advocates for sustainable environmental and economic policies for all Myanmar people, regardless of gender or ethnicity. ACADEMIC BACKGROUND Sept 2011 – May 2013 Master of Arts in International Development Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Jan 2004 – Dec 2006 Diploma in Environmental Policy, Open University, UK Oct 2000 – Oct 2004 B.A.R.S. (English), Myanmar Institute of Theology, Myanmar Mar 2000 – Mar 2003 B.A. (Economics), University of Distance Education, Myanmar WORK EXPERIENCE Sept 2013 to Present Director, POINT (Promotion of Indigenous and Nature Together) Nov 2008 to Sept 2013 Program Coordinator, Spectrum (Sustainable Development Knowledge Network) Sept 2007 to Oct 2008 Program Officer, Spectrum (Sustainable Development Knowledge Network) June 2007 to Aug 2007 Volunteer, World Concern Myanmar June 2009 to Mar 2009 Mentor for Civil Society Organization, Paung Ku Aug 2007 to Aug 2010 Founder and Organizer, Lovers of Myanmar Environment (LOME) Oct 2004 to Oct2010 Part Time Tutor for English and Social Studies, B.A.R.S Program, Myanmar Institute of Theology, Insein, Yangon, Myanmar May 2006 to Sept 2006 English Teacher, Library and Class Organizer, Youth Center, Yangon, Myanmar Oct 2006 to Mar 2007 Internship, Asia Indigenous People’s Pact Foundation, Thailand. [/expand] |
Dr. Martua Sirait Director, SAMDHANA, Indonesia. |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-25″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Martua Sirait holds degree in Forest Management (Mulawarman University Samarinda, 1990), M.Sc. in Applied Sociology and Anthropology (Ateneo de Manila University, 1996) and Phd in Rural Sociology (Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University 2015), has known in promoting the community mapping to the formal process of land tenure security for the IPLCs in Indonesia. Dr. Sirait is currently serving as the Director of Samdhana Institute, Indonesia Operations, based in Bogor. Beside that, he is also serving as the Expert Panel to the Peat & Mangrove Restoration Body (BRGM) for agrarian issues.You can reach him at: martua@samdhana.org [/expand] |
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[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-27″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr Vincent Darlong is a former Vice Chancellor at MLCU. At present he is a team leader in the world bank funded biodiversity studies undertaken by MLCU and serving as a Director of Centre for Sustainable Development Studies. [/expand] |
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[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-27b” text-color=”#f5f300″] Frankie has been working in Tanintharyi region, Southern Myanmar in armed insurgency conflict areas where power and authority favour financial sources of development that impact the local poor including indigenous people. He has been engaged in research and the development of forest policy for forest dependent communities promoting indigenous knowledge and culture . [/expand] |
Dr. Bitopi Dutta University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-28″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr Bitopi Dutta is an Assistant Professor at the School for Life at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India. She is a former IRC Scholar and has a PhD from Dublin City University, Ireland. She earned her MA in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and her BA Honours in Sociology from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University, India. Her research interests include Development Induced Displacement (DID), traditional methods of conflict resolution, gender studies and indigenous people. She has co-authored and edited several book publications on DID and on traditional methods of conflict resolution in Northeast India. |
Dr Oliver Scanlan Center for Sustainable Development, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-29″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr Oliver Scanlan is a Research Fellow at ULAB’s Center for Sustainable Development. He has a PhD in Politics and International relations from Dublin City University, and a Master’s from the University of Amsterdam, both focusing on customary land and forestry rights in India and Bangladesh. His research interests include how customary tenure regimes relate to climate change resilience and adaptation measures. He is a Fellow of the Oxford Research Group’s Sustainable Security Program, specializing in climate change and its implications for global security. He is a member of the UN Environment Program’s Geneva-based Science Policy Platform, in which capacity he presented at the Munich Security Conference in 2018. He has worked for several International NGOs and multilateral organizations, including Oxfam, Save the Children and UN Environment. [/expand] |
Mr. Badhon Chiran |
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Nasrin Siraj Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-30″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Nasrin Siraj is an anthropologist. She completed her first MA in Anthropology from Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka in 2000. Then, in 2010, she obtained her second MA in Anthropology from Vrije University, Amsterdam, where she is currently doing her PhD.Region wise, Nasrin is focused on Bangladesh and its highland border areas. Thematically, she is focused on mobility and migration, violence and democracy, and the processes of exclusion and inclusion. She has teaching experience in Asian University for Women in Bangladesh and in Martin-Luther-Universitat, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Her courses covered qualitative research methods, political identities in Asia and history and rights of ethnic and religious minorities in Bangladesh. [/expand] |
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[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-31″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Nivedita P. Haran Graduated with Economics and Philosophy (Hons), obtained Masters in Philosophy from Jadavpur University and PhD in Sociology from IIT, Delhi. She joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1980 and worked in the state of Kerala and in Govt of India in various departments that include departments of Land Revenue, Disaster Management, Agriculture, Industries, Labour & Employment, Planning and Home apart from serving as District Collector/ Magistrate. She was Director and later Joint Secretary in Ministry of Urban Development, Govt of India. She was on deputation to the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Kosovo for 5 years. Post-retirement she has been engaged in activities related to research and academics in the areas of Digitisation of Land Records, Disaster Resilience-building, Good Governance, , Labour & Migration issues and management of Water, Waste Water and solid waste. She is a member of the Court-appointed Committee of Experts for cleaning up and conservation of the Dal Lake and the committee related to modernization of land records in Delhi. She is also the chairperson of the Centre for Migration and Inclusive Development and Ente Bhoomi Trust. She has been a regular speaker at various training Institutes including the Civil services training academy at Mussoorie. [/expand] |
Mr Bulbul Mankhin |
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Dr Hery Santoso Researcher at Palm Oil Research Institute of Indonesia. |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-32″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Hery Santoso is affiliated with Java Learning Centre (JAVLEC), the NGO based in Java, concern in social forestry and other community based forest management. He is currently working as freelance expert in Sustainable Palm Oil Support (SPOS) project, Indonesia Biodiversity Foundation; and freelance expert of Social Forestry issues in Tropenbos Indonesia. His email is: herysantoso2@gmail.com. |
Dr Iwan Gunawan Senior Natural Resources Specialist, World Bank office in Jakarta, Indonesia. |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-34″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr Iwan Gunawan, Senior Natural Resources Specialist, World Bank office in Jakarta, Indonesia. [/expand] |
Glenn Hunt Researcher at CDE in Myanmar. |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-33″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Glenn Hunt has been working on land and forest governance issues, with both local and international NGOs, in Laos and Myanmar since 2004 with a specific focus on customary land tenure. Having lived in Myanmar from 2014 until the recent coup, since 2018 he is working with the Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern in Switzerland, on their Myanmar project as a researcher and senior land advisor. His email is: glenn.hunt@cde-regions.net [/expand] |
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[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-35″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Mr Arun K Bansal, former-ADG, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Govt of India [/expand] |
Dr Mika Pettri-Torhonen Lead Land Administration Specialist at the World Bank Office in Singapore |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-36″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Mr. Mika-Petteri Torhonen is a Lead Land Administration Specialist at the World Bank based in Singapore. He leads the Bank’s land investment development in the East Asia Pacific and South Asia regions. Mika has worked on tenure security and access to land for over thirty years globally and his current focus lies with the climate actions related to communal land rights, public lands, and infrastructure and energy investments. He is a Finnish National and holds a Doctor of Science Degree from the Helsinki University of Technology. He can be reached at mtorhonen@worldbank.org |
Dr. Nguyen Quan Tuyen Associate Professor of Law and Vice Chairman of the Hanoi Law University |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-38″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr Nguyen Quang Tuyen, Vietnamese national, is Associate Professor of Law and Vice Chairman of the Hanoi Law University Council and Dean of the Economic Department. He teaches land law, civil rights, and economic laws. He has been with the university since 1989 and specializes in land law and related subjects. He is the author of dozens of law reviews and over 120 scholarly articles. He has also written 30 books on land administration, land management, and land governance, aimed at policy makers, undergraduate students, and research scholars. Much of his recent and ongoing research is concerned with the complexities stemming from land policy and implementation of land law in Vietnam. In addition to his research and writing, Dr Tuyen leads a research group that is assessing the implementation of the Party’s Resolution no. 19 and Land Law 2013. He can be reached at: gtuyen1966@yahoo.com [/expand] |
Professor Philip Hirsch Emeritus Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sydney, Australia |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-37″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Philip Hirsch is Emeritus Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has written extensively on the political economy of land, environment and natural resources governance in mainland Southeast Asia and has 40 years of experience working on/in the region. His published work on land includes (with Derek Hall and Tania Li) Powers of Exclusion: Land dilemmas in Southeast Asia (Singapore and Honolulu: Singapore University Press and Hawaii University Press 2011), a series of papers on the political economy of land governance in the Mekong Region, and (with Kevin Woods, Natalia Scurrah and Michael Dwyer) Turning Land into Capital: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022). He is currently writing a chapter on the modern history of land regimes for the new edition of the Cambridge History of Southeast Asia. [/expand] |
Social Activist and Researcher on Natural Resources and Land Governance |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-39″ text-color=”#f5f300″] M. S. Shivakumar, social activist and researcher, has more than 30 years’ experience working on land and natural resource issues in Southeast and South Asia. He has worked with different bilateral and multilateral organisations including the World Bank, UN-FAO, UNDP, and others. He has advised the Governments of Vietnam and Myanmar on enhancing land governance, on drafting land law, and on forest tenure issues. He is currently based in Bengaluru, India. He can be reached at shivmss@gmail.com [/expand] |
