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Indonesia
1999-2001 - Cohort 8
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Yayah KHISBIYAH has been a faculty member of the Department of Psychology at Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta since December 1994, where she is also the founding-director of the Center for Cultural Studies and Social Change (established in 2000). She also teaches at postgraduate program in Peace and Conflict Resolution at Universitas Gadjah Mada. She has been a consultant for International Labour Organization (for program on eliminating child labour in Weleri, Middle Java), UNICEF (for psychosocial programming of peace building in Aceh and Ambon), and WHO (for program on health bridging peace in Aceh). In 1999, with Sardono W. Kusumo, she co-founded Sidra Foundation, an NGO committed to promoting social transformation in Solo through arts and cultural approach, mainly via it's two programs: Solo Heritage Society (SHS) and peAce (Partner for Enlightenment and Cultural Empowerment). For 6 years (1998-2004), she was also a permanent columnist for a psychological consultation feature in Solopos, a daily newspaper in Middle Java.
Y. Khisbiyah has a master's degree in Community/Social psychology from the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell (1997), with the support from the Fulbright Foundation. While in the US, she worked as a research assistant at the Center for family, Work and Community, and an evaluator for the Centre for Immigrant and Refugee Community Leadership and Empowerment (CIRCLE) administered by the UMass system. Her bachelor's in psychology is from Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia (1992). She was a research assistant between 1989 and 1994 at the Population Studies Center, Universitas Gadjah Mada, and also at the Center for Policy and Strategic Studies. She has diplomas in conflict resolution and peace research from Uppsala University in Sweden (1998) and from the European Peace University in Schlaining, Austria (1994). She participated in Fulbright American Studies Institute on the topic of 'Church, State and Society' hosted by Boston College BOISI Center in 2003. Currently she is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Social Psychology at the University of Melbourne with the support of AusAID scholarship and the Ford Foundation, and is working with the International Conflict Resolution Center within the University of Melbourne, particularly in it's Religion and Peace program. She tries to integrate her scholarship and activism in three main interests: gender studies, religion and pluralism, and social psychology of peace building. |
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Anglophone and West Africa
1995-1997 - Cohort 4
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Yelwa Fatima BABA-ARI is a principal lecturer in biology as well as head of the biology department at the Kashim Ibrahim College of Education in Maiduguri in Borno State, Nigeria. She is interested in the role of women in development, biodiversity management, conservation and environmental education. Y.F. Baba-Ari has master's degree in zoology from the University of Maiduguri and a bachelor's degree in biology from Ahmadu Bello University, Samaru, in Nigeria.
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Anglophone and West Africa
2009-2010 - Cohort 15
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Yemisi is a Registered Nurse/Midwife/Nurse Educator with the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria. She is a Chief Nurse Educator at the School of Nursing Bowen University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Oyo State Nigeria.
She graduated from the University of Ibadan with honors in Nursing education and a Masters degree in Public Health from the prestigious Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Louisiana, USA. She is passionate about empowering communities with knowledge on basic steps for maintaining health. She also works with members of a social club to change risky behavior that works against health and adopt healthy lifestyles that will contribute to their general well being. As she interacts with students in her school, she utilizes the opportunity to impact knowledge on current issues in the society. Yemisi is passionate about connecting the dots between health and development issues. That is what informed her decision to sign up for LEAD-AWA training. Bringing over twenty years of experience in the training of student nurses equips her with the necessary skill to further impact her community with capacity to adopt and maintain healthy living. Yemisi won the famous Ford Fellowship award in 2005 to undertake a Masters degree in Public Health with emphasis on health systems management. She is a member of many professional organizations prominent among which is the National Association of Nigerian Nurse's and Midwives (NANNM). She is fluent in English and Yoruba languages. |
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Anglophone and West Africa
2010-2011 - Cohort 16
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China
2007-2008 - Cohort 13
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Yi Lan is a campaigner on forest issues for Greenpeace China. She took the responsibility of projects initiating and implementation for achieving zero deforestation objective globally. This includes a Green publishing project in China, stopping illegal logging and timber trade, 'bring your own chopsticks' (No disposable chopsticks) projects; actions and research with the goal of protecting Paradise forest, Amazon forest etc.
Originally from Sichuan province, Southwest China, Yi Lan attended University in Beijing, where she has been living and working since 1999. She took an internship in the Bayer Health Care company when she was a sophomore, hence commencing her experience in multinational companies as a specialist in marketing with companies such as Unilever and Bausch & Lomb. |
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China
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Board member, Professor of environmental engineering at Tsinghua University; and member of the Standing Committee of National People's Congress.
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China
2007-2008 - Cohort 13
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Ms.Yi Yimin is the Head of Communication and Public Affairs Department for Friends of Nature (Friends of Nature is the oldest environmental NGO in China,we focus on environmental education,awareness-raising campaigns,and helping to foster a growing network of grassroots environmental NGOs throughout China). In this capacity, Ms. Yi is the designated Spokesman for the Organization. Additionally, Ms. Yi is the chief editor for
In 1998, Ms. Yi took part in the activity of “to build a science protection station to Protect Kekexili †when she was still a undergraduate of South China Normal University. She experienced the protection history of the Tibetan antelope. After the graduation，Ms. Yi worked as education profession,editor,and journalist. Since 1999,she joined Green Web as a volunteer, working on structural and strategic planning and program designing for this organization. In 2004, Ms.Yi became a staff of Friends of Nature.She was in charge of the and , Now works as the PR and PM in FON. Knows well of the situation of NGOs, the problems of the environmental protection in China. |
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China
1996-1998 - Cohort 5
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As a professor at Tsinghua University, PU Yi-Kang is responsible for several research programs and the supervision of several graduate students at both BIT and Tsinghua University. He is currently conducting research on the plasma deposition of semiconductor thin films. From 1988 to 1994, he worked as a senior scientist at Spire Corporation in Bedford, Massachusetts. Since then, he has been periodically appointed as a visiting scientist by the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT. After receiving a bachelor's degree from the radio and electronics department of the University of Science and Technology of China (1982), he went to the United States to pursue graduate studies in physics. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988).
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China
2000-2002 - Cohort 9
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WU Yiming, an associate professor, is currently working on her Ph.D. dissertation on environment and trade in Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang ,PRC .
Ms WU has a very good educational background. She got her B.A(English) in 1988, and M.A (Business English) from University of International Business and Economcis (UIBE) in 1993. In 1997, she was selected as a visiting scholar to do research work at Institute of Environment and Economics of Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration , where she got supervision from Dr.Prof.Uwe.Schubert. In 1999, she participated in the first 'Advanced Seminar on Sustainable Development and Environment Protection' hosted by Qsinghua University in Beijing. Ms.WU is now giving lectures concerning Environment and Development , in addition, she is also responsible for offering consultation to enterprises . Ms.WU has strong leadership capability and wide knowledge of issues related to environment and development ;she can be respectful and tolerant in relation with other people;she always takes part in activities related to sustainable development with enthusiasm ;she is skillful in collaborating with one another to complete any work; she is also self-disciple. |
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China
1997-1999 - Cohort 6
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YU Yingfu is a deputy division director in the Department of Aid to Foreign Countries in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. He is responsible for promoting economic and technical cooperation with twelve central and southwestern countries in Africa. He evaluates, defines and organizes these government-assisted projects. He has traveled extensively throughout Africa since he joined the Ministry. From 1992 to 1995, he was third secretary for economic and commercial affairs at the Chinese Embassy in the Republic of Zimbabwe. He has a bachelor's degree in English literature from Xiamen University (1988) and has received additional training in international commercial law.
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China
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Board member, and Editor-in-Chief of China Daily.
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China
2000-2002 - Cohort 9
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YUAN Yinghui is a news reporter and editor at Beijing TV Station (BTV), the second largest station in China. She joined the news department in l995 as a reporter covering economic and financial news, and soon was promoted to chief editor of a news program. When BTV established English-language news in l999, she was selected as chief editor. She currently supervises all aspects of this daily l0-minute broadcast, including collecting news materials, writing news items and composing the program.
Her coverage of economic issues included a ground-breaking eight-minute TV news item titled 'Venture Capital is Coming', which was awarded several prizes. Her exposure to environmental issues through a news program at her station, 'Returning Beijing to a City with Green Waters and Blue Sky', inspired an active interest in environmental protection. She now is trying to establish an ongoing television program reporting environment issues. She received her master's degree in classical Chinese poetry in 1995 and her bachelor's degree in Chinese literature in 1992, both from the Capital Normal University. During each year of her undergraduate studies, she was selected as the 'excellent student of the year' and upon graduation was awarded the title of 'excellent graduate'. |
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China
2001-2003 - Cohort 10
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Miss Guo Yingli currently is an MBA in CSR student at University of Nottingham.
Before coming to the UK in Sep. 2005, she had been working at DFID China. Miss Guo has the working experience in both business and development field. At the same time, she has participated many voluntary activities in her spare time. |
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China
2001-2003 - Cohort 10
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LI Yingren is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Division of Foreign Relations and Cooperation at the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences (CAFS), a leading research institution based in Beijing. Yingren is in charge of formulating and managing international cooperative plans and projects for CAFS, most focusing on fisheries and environmental protection.
Yingren also currently serves as Executive Secretary of the US-China Living Marine Resource Joint Coordination Panel, which meets under the aegis of the Protocol on Marine and Fishery Science and Technology Cooperation between the two countries. He also coordinates research by CAFS and several international institutions, including the WorldFish Center. Yingren's interests centre on protecting the marine environment, living marine resources and wildlife, and improving the living conditions of fishing communities. In the early to mid-1980s, he researched the impact of pollution on fisheries and the issue of marine fishing by catch, and researched environmental issues and development strategies related to fisheries. His main concern now is ecological mariculture and the multifunctionality of fishing communities. For his contribution to these fields he has received several academic awards from CAFS and the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture. His interests were fostered early on: he enrolled at Xiamen University to study marine biology at the age of 15. He has a BSc in marine biology (1984) and has finished postgraduate courses in management science at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2002). |
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China
2001-2003 - Cohort 10
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XIA Yingxian is the Chief Programme Officer at the Department of International Cooperation of the Chinese State Environmental Protection Administration. He has been responsible for policy formulation of and negotiation on international conventions such as the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Basel Convention on the Management of Hazardous Wastes Transboundary Movements and Their Disposal, as well as the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. He has also been heavily involved in many international meetings and conferences on sustainable development.
Yingxian has an MSc in governance and development management from the School of Public Policy at the University of Birmingham in the UK, and is also an English major at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature of Nankai University in Tianjin, China. |
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Indonesia
2006-2007 - Cohort 12
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Yohannes Izmi Ryan is the Coordinator of RSPO Program at PT Agro Harapan Lestari, one of the world's best oil palm plantation. The company RSPO program supports the fulfillment of Roundtable Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) principle and criteria implementation which focused on best management practices, environmental sustainability and stakeholder partnership.
Ryan studied forestry at Bogor Institute of Agriculture, Indonesia and later completed his master degree in Management of Bioresources and Tropical Environment at the Institute of Technology Bandung. He attended environmental course such as Environmental Impact Assessment at University of Indonesia and Institute of Technology Bandung, as well as Sustainable Environmental Management from University of California, Berkeley. He has 15 years experience as a forester and an environmentalist and he mostly works on environmental management system and sustainability issues before he is in charge of the RSPO programs. |
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Southern and Eastern Africa
2009-2010 - Cohort 15
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Japan
2000-2002 - Cohort 9
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Yong-Ki Yuki IN (EUN in Korean) is an attorney-at-law in Japan and a partner in his law firm. His primary focus is domestic civil law, and he also takes criminal cases and Japanese visa cases in which workers who have overstayed their alloted time are applying to the Ministry of Justice of the Japanese Government for special residence visas.
He is a founding member of the Japan-Korea Attorney's Friendship Association, which brings together Japanese and Korean attorneys. The next general meeting is to take place at Cheju Island, Korea, in March 2001. He is also a member of the Society on International Human Rights Law (KOKUSAI-JINKEN-HOU-GAKKAI), which focuses on the International Convention on Human Rights. Its membership includes many scholars, attorneys and NGO representatives. He is interested in solving transnational issues related to the environment, bioethics, refugees and overstaying workers within transnational frameworks. A South Korean national, he was born in Japan and his first language is Japanese. He passed the Japanese bar examination in 1993 and registered for the Japan Federation of Bar Associations in 1996. |
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China
2006-2007 - Cohort 12
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I graduated from Xian Mathematics & Engineering University in 1986. From 1986 to 1992, I worked in the agricultural water conservancy department of Gansu Provincial Water Conservancy Bureau, where my work consisted of farming land irrigation, drinking water for human & livestock in agricultural & pasturing area and other engineering planning management work. From 1992-1998, I was engaged in project management of the Gans Rural Water Supply & Environment Sanitary Project financed by the World Bank, At that time, I was posted as engineer and vice-director of the department I worked in. In 1998, I was redeployed to Provincial Poverty Reduction Office to be engaged in the management of the Western Poverty Reduction Project financed by the World Bank. Then, I was designated as vice-chief of the division and later chief of the division early or date. In addition, I dedicated my effort on gaining the senior engineer qualification. Up to now, I worked as division chief of project management department No.2 in Gansu Foreign Capital Poverty Reduction Project Management Center, mainly responsible for financial management, project import and other management activities of the World Bank project and Grant funds project, as well as training management on housekeeper and baby servants.
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China
2006-2007 - Cohort 12
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Mr. Yongzhang Zhou is a full time professor and the director the Research Center for Earth Environment & Resources of Zhongshan University. His duty is teaching courses to students of various levels, focusing in supervising PhD candidates in fields of earth environment and resources, environmental economy and regional sustainable development. Besides, he does researches in related field.
He grew up more early than normal people. At age of 15, he entered Zhongshan University, and got his BSc. degree in Geology there (1982). Then he got his MSc. degree in Geochemistry from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1987), and PhD. degree in mineral resources form Quebec University, Canada (1992). At age of 30, he became a research fellow (professor) in Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of sciences. At present he also serves as the president of the Guangzhou Municipal Society of City Sustainable Development, the tactic expert & convener in the Environmental and Sustainable Development Programme of the Development Research Center affiliated to Guangdong Provincial Government, and the member of Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Political Consultative Conference. All these are consistent with SD and mission of LEAD. |
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Francophone Africa
2010-2011 - Cohort 16
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Hydrologist at Water Resources and meteorology Direction in the Ministry of Water , Yonoudjoum Monodjomi Médard is also working as consultant with S.A.A.I (Société Africaine d’Architecture et d’Ingenierie) [utting together Regional Planning and Development Programme of N’Djamena and Djarmaya. He is also LEAD CHAD consultant for regional development in Barh El Ghazal, the Sahelian zone of Chad. Born on April 1977 at Sarh, Yonoudjoum Monodjomi Médard is a holder of Professional Master in Applied Geosciences, Water Ressources and Management Engineering Degree and DEUG (a University Diploma taken after two years’ study)in Biology.
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Indonesia
1993-1995 - Cohort 2
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Yopie Loemoindong is a lecturer in the Department of Education Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry at the Hasanuddin University in Indonesia. He earned his bachelor's degree in agricultural sociology from the Hasanuddin University and a master's degree in environmental science from the University of Indonesia. Mr. Lumoindong served as a coordinator in the department of research and evaluation at Forest Parents Plan International, (1985-1986). He has been a staff member of the Research Center of Environmental of Hasanuddin University since 1988.
Mr. Loemoindong has completed training in four occasions, i.e. 'Environmental Management of Tourism at Coastal Areas', Bogor, 1989, 'Environmental Monitoring System of Transmigration Program', Bogor, 1991, 'Methodology of Social Environment', Semarang, 1997 and 'Natural Tourism: Spatial Planning', Manado, 1997. He was a Consultant of Sulawesi Rainfed Agriculture Development Project (Asian Development Bank - ADB), December 1997-July 2002, Palu Sub Project (to assist public participation in rural community development and integrated farming system/soil conservation) and as an Executive Director of 'Yayasan Pengembangan Masyarakat Pantai - Waetasi' (Coastal Community Development) from 1998 - until now. Mr. Loemoindong is interested in environmental planning, and as a LEAD fellow, he would like to gain further knowledge on and skill in environmental and rural community development. |
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Japan
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China
1998-2000 - Cohort 7
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ZHU Youkui is deputy director of a local government training center for officials of Guang Xi, a poverty stricken area; he is also a coordinator at the government micro-credit office where he designs programs to help alleviate the poverty of rural farmers. The training programs that he designs and implements for officials at the county and township levels aim to foster project-development skills (project identification, design and implementation) that take into account poverty reduction and sustainable development in poor communities.
He received training in project formulation by EDI in 1992, and attended a business administration workshop at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1994. |
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China
2009-2010 - Cohort 15
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China
2010-2011 - Cohort 16
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China
2005-2006 - Cohort 11
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Dr. LIU Yuan has joined the China unit, Oxfam Hong Kong as a research officer in Aug.2006. She did her post-doctor research on Nature Reserve Management in Beijing Forestry University from 2004 to 2006, after she had gotten the PhD on Cultural Anthropology in the Central University for Nationality in 2004.
Her responsibilities currently are included the issues about the relationship between free trade and the impact on poverty and the vulnerable groups in China, and exploring the development approaches at the minority communities. |
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China
1995-1997 - Cohort 4
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DU Yuejin is Vice Editor-in-Chief at China Securities. He is interested in the responsibility of developing countries to aid underdeveloped countries in their efforts to achieve sustainability. He studied literature at Shanxi University in China and earned a master's degree in journalism at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In the United States, he studied journalism at the World Press Institute at Macalaster College in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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China
1997-1999 - Cohort 6
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GE Yuejing is an associate professor at the Department of Resources and Environment Studies at Beijing Normal University, where she teaches world geography and conducts research in regional planning and territorial management. Her publications include 'The Characteristics of Economic Growth and Industrial Structure Changes of the Developed Countries During the Middle Stage of Industrialization', 'Changing the Orbit of Regional Economic Increases, Resource Development and Environmental Change in Eastern Coastal Areas in China', 'Reflection on the Strategy of China's Industrial Structure: Adjustment in the New Period' and 'Positive Analysis of the Relationship Between Inclination Investment and Regional Gap'. Her future work will emphasize both teaching and research. She plans to offer a new course on global sustainable development and to participate in the organization of economic-environmental decision-making in poor regions of China. She has a master's degree in regional geography from Beijing Normal University (1988).
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Canada
1996-1998 - Cohort 5
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Yuen Pau WOO is Vice President and Chief Economist for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, a think tank on Asia Pacific issues and Canada-Asia relations. He is also Director of the APEC Study Centre in Canada, Chair of the Canadian Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation, and a member of the Standing Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council. He is an Adjunct Professor and lecturer at the University of British Columbia's Institute of Asian Research and on the Board of the Standards Council of Canada.
Mr Woo is an External Advisor for the University of Victoria's Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives and on the Management Board of the Centre for Excellence on Immigration Research at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. He is also a Senior Advisor to the Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Centre and on the editorial board of Pacific Affairs. Mr Woo has previously worked as a consultant on international marine issues, and as an economist for the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. Mr Woo was born in Malaysia and grew up in Singapore. He was educated at Lester B. Pearson College, Wheaton College, Cambridge University and the University of London. |
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