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China
2001-2003 - Cohort 10
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SUN Yufang is a project assistant at the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture's Center for Science and Technology, where she is responsible for the formulation of feasibility studies and reports, the coordination of foreign projects and the research and evaluation of the projects. Some of the projects she has worked on include the Cooperative Project on Rural Renewable Energy Development in China, between the ministry and the US Department of Energy; the UNDP/GEF Project on Energy Conservation and Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction in Township and Village Enterprises in China; and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation project on Financial Incentive Policies on Biomass Technologies Commercialization.
Yufang has an MA in management from the China Agricultural University, where she participated in project management at the Center for Integrated Agricultural Development as a project assistant. She showed particular aptitude for project management using the participatory method. She has also studied many branches of economics, such as international trade, financial management and economic law. |
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China
1999-2001 - Cohort 8
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LIU Yuhai is director of Rizhao Environmental Protection Bureau, where he is in charge of environmental protection planning for Rizhao City, environmental management of new projects, supervision of old pollution sources, monitoring of environmental quality and the study of environmental protection technology. He previously held the position of director of the wastewater treatment department in the Environmental Protection Institute of China Petroleum and Chemical Coorperation.
Y. Liu is interested in cycle economy,eco-city building,the technologies for waste water treatment, the relationship between environmental protection and the economy, and sustainable development. He graduated from the Petroleum University of China and participated in English language training courses in Beijing. |
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China
1995-1997 - Cohort 4
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I am WU Yuhua, doctor of geography and associate professor. I studied at the Geography Department of Beijing Normal University between 1979 and 1983 , at the Geography Department of Peking University between 1987 and 1990 and at the Geography Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences between 1995 and 1999. I have been a teacher since I began to work. I taught at Guangxi College of Education in 1980's and 1990's. I now teach at the Architecture College of Guangxi University.
I have taught courses of management of resources and environment, urban geography, introduction to sustainable development, real estate developing, tourism geography, management information system, geographical information system, computer network, etc. I presided the projects of landuse planning for some counties of Guangxi in late 1990's. I took part in the composition of Agenda 21 for Guangxi, a governmental planning for the 21st century and wrote two chapters titled sustainable urban, and sustainable utilization of natural resources and protection to eco-diversity. I finished a project 'Big Nanning Planning Research' for Nanning Government in the last half of 2004. I was strictly trained in geography, urban and regional planning, mathematics, economics, English and computer. My English level is 6 (EILTS). I am interested in the fields of urban and regional planning, spatial implication of information technologies, tourism resource planning, and GIS. My publications include studies of downtown Beijing, the Karst Mountain Area of southwest China, environmental problems in Yintan Beach Resort at Beihai City, the Guangxi Agenda for 21st Century, and Patterns of spatial structures, the trends of human settlement, ecotourism planning based on village community. |
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Indonesia
2000-2002 - Cohort 9
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Yulia Indawardhani was the Executive Director of Yayasan Pokmas Mandiri, a micro finance institution who works on poverty alleviation program by implementing Grameen Bank Replication model.
Yuli was graduated from North Sumatra University, Medan, Indonesia with a degree in English Linguistics. She has been actively involved in social working since her academic years. She has attended several courses and training on micro finance, community development, NGO management, fund raising, public health, and others. She was one of of the state-representative in Australia - Indonesia Youth Exchange Programme 1996-1997 under the joint of Understanding between the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia. She was one of the pioneers in establishing micro finance for the poor in North Sumatra. Now she works independently as an Independent Community Development Specialist. |
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Commonwealth of Independent States
2000-2002 - Cohort 9
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Yulia Kuleshova has nine years experience in the management of projects related to nature conservation and environment. Her current position is Russia’s coordinator for the WRI project “Landscape Impact Assessment of the Oil and Gas Industry in Russiaâ€. This project is aimed to quantify and communicate the footprint of the oil and gas industry on Russia’s landscape. In its first phase the project will develop a consistent and independent assessment method based on information available in the public domain and primarily satellite imagery. The assessment team consists of Russian environmental NGOs: Transparent World, Greenpeace Russia, WWF Russia, and International Socio-Ecological Union.
In 1997-2005 Yulia worked with a number of Russian environmental NGOs (Biodiversity Conservation Center, IUCN Office for Russia and CIS, Greenpeace Russia, Russian Regional Environmental Centre) implementing projects in the field of protected areas, ecological networks, environmental education, and renewable energy. Her responsibilities included project design, fundraising, administration and communication; organization of seminars and trainings; coordination of volunteer work etc. She was manager and co-editor of several environmental publications, including a series of popular brochures “for Children and Ministersâ€, the Russian edition of the Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series, “Development of Russian Protected Areas: 1992-2003â€, “Playing on Behalf of the Mountain Lifeâ€. In 2000-2005 Yulia was co-editor of The Open Country, an international publication dedicated to understanding and conservation of grassland communities. Ms. Kuleshova holds Master’s degree in Geography from Moscow Lomonosov State University. In 1995-1996 she took postgraduate courses at Wageningen Agricultural University and at the University of Ghent. She is fluent in English and conversant in Spanish. Yulia was born in Irkutsk (Eastern Siberia). Her personal interests include cross-cultural communication, nature interpretation and singing. |
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Europe
2010-2011 - Cohort 16
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Commonwealth of Independent States
2007-2008 - Cohort 13
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Yulia Sukhenko graduated from the International University in Moscow in 2001. She received her degree of Specialist in Linguistics and Intercultural Communication. In 2002 Yulia was awarded Stanton W. Davis Foundation Fellowship to pursue her Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Degree at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
From 2004 to 2006 she worked as a Grants Administrator Assistant for the Moscow Office of the Ford Foundation, focusing on grants management. Since August 2006 Yulia has been involved with international education sector, coordinating the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP) at the Institute of International Education, Moscow. Her responsibilities include participating in IFP recruitment and outreach activities, preparing and updating program materials, organizing orientation and selection sessions for the program participants who come from diverse backgrounds and represent various fields of study (e.g. Arts & Culture, Civil Society, Community Development, Education, Environment & Development, etc.). Yulia is interested in environmental education and management. She enjoys winter sports activities and travelling. |
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China
2001-2003 - Cohort 10
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Dr. Jiang Yulin is Deputy of Chief Engineer of China Academy of Transportation Sciences (CTAS), Ministry of Communications, P. R. China. She is also the Director of Sustainable Transportation Research Center, recently established by CTAS. Before joining CTAS in July 1997, she worked on rangeland ecology with experience in China, Nepal and India.
Currently, Jiang Yulin is the co-coordinator of the Sustainable Transportation Task Force on the strategy and policy for future sustainable transportation development of the China of China Council for International Co-operation on Environment and Development (CCICED). She severed as an advisor to the Forest and Grassland Taskforce of CCICED from 2000 to 2002. She is the author of ecological restoration technique for highway roadsides, published in 2002 based on her work on different parts of China. Her contribution to environment protection in the field of transportation in China has merited her several prizes from the Chinese Government in 2000-2003. In 1997 she received her Doctorate degree in rangeland ecology from Gansu Agricultural University. She also trained in Remote and GIS applications at the Center for Space Science and Technology in India in 1996. Jiang Yulin has recently completed her LEAD training and looks forward to contributing further toward a sustainable society. |
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Commonwealth of Independent States
2008-2009 - Cohort 14
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Yuliya Kolova is a financial consultant in one of the leading consulting companies. Her responsibilities include consulting clients on personal financial planning, real estate activities, drawing finance plan.
Yuliya was born in Minsk, Republic of Belarus but currently lives and works in Moscow. Yuliya graduated Minsk Institute of Management with a degree in economics. She has also acquired a qualification in Finance and credit from Minsk technical secondary school of enterprise. Yuliya has always been interested in environmental questions. She used to study water resource problems at school. Her hobbies include travelling, carting and whitewater rafting. |
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Japan
1999-2001 - Cohort 8
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Yumiko KANEMITSU's work focuses on developing countries, and she has been working in Africa on projects related to as refugees, children living on the streets and urban community development. She started her career with a German NGO, where her work was related to the role of NGOs in developing and implementing local and international environmental policies. In Germany, the high level of consciousness towards the environment inspired an ongoing interest in the impact of environmental degradation on health. Y. Kanemitsu studied social anthropology and international politics in Japan and in the United Kingdom.
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Japan
1997-1999 - Cohort 6
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China
1997-1999 - Cohort 6
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Yao Yunsong is now working as a provincial program coordinator in China for Winrock International---a non-profit and non-governmental organization dedicated to improving people's lives while protecting the environment. The program Yao Yunsong coordinates in a south-western province Yunnan, China is 'Women's Capacity Building for Rural Development Program'. This program aims to train and mobilize women pioneers and male supporters to improve the lives of rural women. As a provincial coordinator, Yao Yunsong is responsible for the implementation of all the activities related to this program, such as designing the training courses with both international and local trainers, working with relevant local institutions for gender mainstreaming to create enabling environment.
Before joining Winrock, Yao Yunsong has worked as a project officer for Yunnan Bureau of Foreign Trade and Economic Development (BOFTEC), a provincial government agency on several bilateral and multi-lateral cooperation projects in development areas. Recently, Yao Yunsong has completed her master degree study on development management at the Asian Institute of Management(AIM) in the Philippines. She has returned back to China to reassume her work with Winrock to continue the efforts promoting the advancement of women. |
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China
1997-1999 - Cohort 6
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HE Yupeng is senior research fellow and deputy director-general in charge of policy research, development planning and international collaboration in China Center for Town Reform and Development (CCTRD) under the State Council Office for Restructuring Economic Systems. His expertise in the field of agricultural and rural development policies evaluation, commodity and trade analysis, and population-related studies evolves him to a number of preeminent consultancy positions such as advisor to the Minister of Agriculture on WTO issues and member of expert group to the State Council on women's advancement. He is also core faculty member of LEAD China. Before he moved to CCTRD in 2002, he had served in the Research Center for Rural Economy in the Ministry of Agriculture and its predecessor Research Center for Rural Development of the State Council for 14 years, directing divisions of market and trade studies, macroeconomic studies and international cooperation, and working on national rural surveillance network. During the past one and half decade, He Yupeng has chaired a number of national and international research projects and has authored more than 50 papers and several books. He also worked as consultant to many international organizations, such as OECD, FAO, APEC, and ASEAN. He Yupeng graduated from the Department of Sociology at Peking University in 1988 and studied at the Department of Population Studies and International Health at Harvard University.
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Commonwealth of Independent States
1994-1996 - Cohort 3
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Dr. Malykhin is Professor of the Ecology Faculty of the Novorossiysk Branch of the Kubanian State Technological University in Russia. Previously, he was a researcher at the Biosphere Geochemistry Research Institute. He has a master's degree in geology from Rostov State University and a doctorate in geochemistry from Krasnodar Polytechnic University. Dr. Malykhin has published over 30 scientific papers on geology, biology and biogeochemistry and is interested in the ecology of the world's coastal mega-cities.
Also he is the president of non Government organization 'Green lungs Novorossiysk'. The main purposes of this organization are Creation of an Arboretum and park in Novorossiysk and consolidation of non Government ecological organizations. The huge help in this is rendered by LEAD International which has allocated grant ($ 30 000) on the joint project (by Yury Malykhin, Andrey Ozharovskii and Ilia Zaitsev) 'Creation of an Arboretum and park in the City of Novorossiysk'. |
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Commonwealth of Independent States
1993-1995 - Cohort 2
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Yury Gennadievich Mikhailichenko graduated from Moscow State University's oceanological division. He received a Ph.D. in physical oceanography from the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow and subsequently worked there for nearly fifteen years. Currently, he is a chief specialist in the Ministry of Science and Technology Policy of the Russian Federation, in the division of the World Ocean, Climate and Earth Sciences. His areas of activity are planning and management of the Russian national research program 'Comprehensive Investigations of the Oceans and Seas, Arctic and Antarctic' and serves as a member of the U.S.-Russian Joint Intergovernmental Committee on Cooperation in Ocean Studies. He also represented his division at the International Centre for Coastal and Ocean Policy Studies (ICOOPS) in Genoa, Italy. His area of special interest is the development of coastal management in Russia. Working toward this goal, he is a co-leader of a newly formed coastal management project of the Russian government. Last year he was invited to membership in the New York Academy of Sciences. He has published a book and over 40 paper, as well as participated in several research studies.
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China
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Board member, Economist, Chairman of Unirule Institute of Economics and Consulting Firm and LEAD-China core faculty member.
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Indonesia
2008-2009 - Cohort 14
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Yusman Syaukat (Yusman) finished his bachelor degree in Agriculture majoring in Agribusiness from Institut Pertanian Bogor (Bogor Institute of Agriculture) in 1986. He then continued to his Masters at the University of New England, Australia (1991) and received his doctoral from University of Guelph, Canada (2000) majoring on agricultural and resource economics. From 1995-2000 he serves as graduate teaching assistant and graduate research assistant to Department of Food, Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Guelph and awarded a dissertation research award (1998) from Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA – Singapore). He currently works as lecturer at Department of Resource and Environmental Economics Faculty of Economics and Management, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB).
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Indonesia
1999-2001 - Cohort 8
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Yuyun ISMAWATI is the Director and co-founder of BALIFOKUS Foundation, a Bali based environmental non-governmental organisation concern on urban environmental management, which she established in June 2000 with couple of friends.
Promoting sustainable development is one of the missions of her organisation. Multi-stakeholders and participatory approaches are used as tools to find appropriate solutions on urban environmental management issues. Yuyun ISMAWATI is one of the Indonesia Ashoka Fellow and focal point of GAIA (Global Alliance for Incincerator Alternatives/Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance) in Indonesia. Promoting decentralized environmental services and toxic issues are her recent activities. She holds Environmental Engineering Bachelor degree obtained from Bandung Institute of Technology (1990), Indonesia. |
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Pakistan
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Pakistan
1999-2001 - Cohort 8
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Academic:
Mr. Zafar completed his early education from Aitchison College Lahore;received his BA in Economics from Government College Lahore and his MBA from Quaid-e Azam University, Islamabad. He also holds a M.Sc in Development Economics from the London School of Economics and a MPP from the USA. He is a Brittania-Chevenning Scholar and a Hubert Humphrey Fellow. He has also attended a large number of short trainings, certifications and diplomas from Harvard University (KSG), UCLA, Chicago University, Duke University, UNC, Reading University, Tokyo and Hiroshima Universities, World Bank Institute etc. He has also worked as a research associate at the Brooking Institute, Washington DC. Professional: Mr. Zafar qualified the central civil services examination and was placed in the fast-track district management group. He has 19 years of experience working in the government and donor assisted sectors. He has held numerous field assignments as assistant and deputy commissioner.A few of Mr. Zafar's previous assignments include administrator/mayor of Rawalpindi and Chief Economist to the Govt. of NWFP. He is currently serving as the Secretary Planning and Development, incharge of economic uplift of the federally administered tribal areas of Pakistan. He is interested in development and preservation of environment and ecology. Evidence of this interest is Mr. Zafar's role in the initiation of the Solid Waste Management Program (SWEEP) in Rawalpindi and his preparation of the master plan for the disposal of toxic effluents of the tannery industry. He is the author of numerous policy documents pertaining to public finance, economic and social development etc |
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Pakistan
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Pakistan
2001-2003 - Cohort 10
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Zahoor Ahmad Bazai is lecturer in the Botany Department (UOB) and teaches environmental biology. He is also part time honorary S.V. chairman in a local NGO named SCAMB. Before joining his current position he worked with international development agencies, such as UNDP, FAO, WWF and WFP in their participatory development projects. He worked for UNDP (Loralai Balochistan) as District Coordinator at BTDMP. The project aim was to improve the public service delivery mechanism for good governance to incorporate sustainable development.
He was also engaged with WWF for the dissemination of environmental problems /issues and measures for its solution through training imparted to schoolteachers and local capacity building organizations. He possesses relevant skills of communication, advocacy, participatory development, project planning and management, working with different local NGOs and a good knowledge of current developmental and environmental issues. All these are supported by relevant education including a master's in rural development and graduation in forestry. |
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Indonesia
1992-1994 - Cohort 1
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Zaim Saidi was born in Nov 21,1962, married with four kids. He is presently the Executive Director of Public Interest Research and Advocacy Center (PIRAC), a research-based advocacy group. He received his undergraduate degree in Food Technology and Human Nutrition from Bogor Institute of Agriculture (1986) and his Master of Public Affairs (Hon) degree from University of Sydney, Australia (1998).
Zaim has 17 years of experience in the NGO movement in Indonesia, as well as in consumer protection, environmental movement and in public policy research and advocacy. He has published works on consumer and environment protection, and more recently on resource mobilization and philanthropy . For his exemplary work in these fields, Zaim received Public Interest Research Fellowship from Ralph Nader's Multinational Monitor in 1991, Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) Fellowship in 1992-1994, and Merdeka Fellowship from the Government of Australia, in 1996-1997. Other experience that Zaim has is in journalistic works. He served as a special editor in Berita Buana daily newspaper from 1991-1992, and in Republika from 1993-1997; and as guest colomnist for Swasembada, a monthly business magazine, on business ethics in 1991, and for Media Indonesia on consumers affairs, in 1994-1997. From July-October 2000 he co-hosted Kamar 619, a weekly television talk show on environment and sustainable development, nationally broadcasted by Televisi Pendidikan Indonesia (TPI), and since February 2002-July 2003 hosts Gerbang Agribisnis, beweekly talkshow on agribusiness broadcasted by TVRI. Zaim also teaches as visiting lecturer at the University of Indonesia and University Tanjungpura. |
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Anglophone and West Africa
2006-2007 - Cohort 12
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Mr Zakariyah Olabisi AGBEREMI is currently the Project Officer (Water & Environmental Sanitation) with UNICEF Country Office, Abuja, Nigeria. He joined the services of UNICEF in November 1994 as the sanitation consultant and has had more than nineteen years of professional experience in water supply and environmental sanitation development.
Mr AGBEREMI graduated with a BSc degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Lagos, Nigeria and later obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Ambros Ali University, Ekpoma, Nigeria. He is a member of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) as well as a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) |
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Commonwealth of Independent States
1993-1995 - Cohort 2
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Zarina Abdulla-Kyzy Abdulla-Zade, official representative for the Ecological Innovation Center at the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences in Baku, Azerbaijan, studied pediatrics at State Medical University in Azerbaijan. She also has been an official representative for 'Zarinafurs' and a physician with the Oncologic Center, both in the Republic of Azerbaijan. As a LEAD Associate, she is interested in medicine and public health issues.
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Pakistan
1997-1999 - Cohort 6
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Zeba Ali is currently working for Environment Canada as an Economist for the Regulatory and Economic Analysis Branch. She is involved in researching, assessing, and developing tools to provide strategic economic advise on federal regulations. Much of the work involves detailed assessment of specific departmental regulations, usually as part of a formal Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement (RIAS).
Zeba ALI has worked as deputy project coordinator with the Environmental Technology Program for Industry (ETPI), a project of National Environmental Consulting. Her work involves the financial analysis of environmental audits of industries, development of technical papers for ETPI partner organizations and management of the ETPI core team. By integrating the fields of economics and environment, she has broadened the scope of her work, which now ranges from feasibility studies to socio-economics studies of Pakistan's environmental problems. Z. Ali completed her Masters in Environmental Studies Programme from York University in 2001. As part of the programme she also did an internship at the Environmental Accounts and Statistics Division at Statistics Canada. Z. Ali also has a master's degree in economics from the University of Karachi (1989). She also completed a short-term course at Tufts University in environmental management and natural resource economics (1993), for which she studied methodologies for environmental economic evaluation of the mangrove ecosystem in the Indus Delta. |
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Francophone Africa
2006-2007 - Cohort 12
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Zephirin EMINI is a Doctor in the Public Law and a lecturer at the University of Yaounde II. As specialist of decentralisation and municipality management, he is the coordinator of UNDP urban governance programme. He has been engaged in environmental issues for the past 10 years. He is the vice-president of LEAD National Association of Cameroon
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China
1994-1996 - Cohort 3
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Qiu Zeqi, a postdoctoral fellow at Peking University, conducts research for the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology. He earned his doctorate in sociology from Peking University and his master's degree in history from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Dr. Qiu has also received English language training from the Bell Educational Trust in Wuhan. He is interested in such sociological issues surrounding environment and development as the variable utilization of resources by different peoples, the development of new resources, and the impact of changes in resource availability on our ideas.
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China
1994-1996 - Cohort 3
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A specialist in Tibetan economic development, Mr. Luorong is an assistant professor at the Chinese Center for Tibetan Studies. He has a master's degree in economics from Shanghai Mechanic Institute and a bachelor's degree in math from the Central Institute for Nationalities. He has attended numerous seminars on Tibetan development, including the Seminar on the Exploitation of Inner Tibet and the Seminar on the Research of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. His publications focus on Tibetan life: The Development of Tibetan Handicraft Industry and The Exploitation of Inner Tibet and Its Population. He is a member of the Society of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Research and the Research Society for Minority Economic Development. Mr. Luorong is interested in the study of traditional Tibetan culture and the effect of modernization on Tibet.
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China
2009-2010 - Cohort 15
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