Alumni

Director Afghanistan Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (AEITI) The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is global standard for promoting greater accountability in developing countries, which are rich in oil, gas, or mineral resources. On March 16, 2009 the Government of Afghanistan (GoA) announced its endorsement of the principles. The National Coordinator position is the main responsible individual for properly managing the secretariat, strengthen the coordination and building the capacity of the stakeholders in the process.

Nadine Aboukhaled has recently joined the Revenue Watch Institute as the MENA economic analyst based in Beirut.Nadine has more than 10 years of experience working as an economist in government and international
organizations. She servedas a senior economic officer for the Lebanese Ministry of Finance under the UNDP Project where she provided macroeconomic and fiscal policy advice and was responsible for thepublic debt management portfolio. She has also contributedto the Ministry of Finance’s publications and has been involved inpublic financial management technical assistance. Prior to that, she also served as an economist dealing with complex national statistical survey and analyses of socio-economic statisticsat the Central Administration of Statistics. More recently,she held the position of social policy specialist at UNICEF Lebanon and worked as a
senior economic consultant to the Institute of Finance Basil Fuleihanleading thecapacity building project on municipal finance and contributing to the research activities.
Nadine holds a D.E.S (Diplômed’étudessupérieures) and a Maîtrisein Economics from Saint-JosephUniversity (Beirut) where she also taught a Public Finance course. She is also theco-author of “Lebanon trade profile ”published as part of the FEMISE“Lebanon country profile”.

He is a coordinator of oil transparency division for Luta Hamutuk Institute. He design implementation plan for monitoring, and advocacy and research on transparency oil and gas issues. He also responsible for coordinating all monitoring and research activities on oil and gas issues.

Mr. NGUYEN Duc Anh is currently working for the People and Nature Reconciliation (PanNature) in Vietnam as a policy analyst. He is focusing on the policies on extractive industries and bioconservation in Vietnam.
Previously, he worked on hydropower issue and have done several studies on hydropower issue, such as resettlement, decision-making process.

Perpevina has graduated in 1988 with a degree in AB Economics at the Ateneo de Davao University and in 2010 with a degree in MA Economics at the Ateneo de Davao University.
Right after graduation in college, she was hired as a databank staff in a research oriented non-government organization. She started working with Mindanawon Initiatives for Cultural Dialogue in 2001 as the coordinator of the
scholarship program for the indigenous peoples of Mindanao. Later, she became the program officer for the capacity-building program, also for the indigenous peoples. In 2007, I became a part of the research team on the mining industry and have been involved in mining research up to the present. She sit as a member of the board of trustees of Bantay Kita, a network of civil society organizations and non government organizations espousing for greater transparency and accountability in the extractive industry. Now she works for Mindanawon that is one of the founding organizations of Bantay Kita.

Putheavy graduated Finance and Banking 2009 in Build Bright University. She spent 8 years ago for working with 2 organizations, Action on Disability and Development (ADD) and Youth Resource
Development Program (YRDP), related to social development, justice, peace, accountability, transparency, participation, and respect of development. Currently, she is a Senior Assistant of Extractive Industries and Climate Change Unit (SAEICCU) at Youth Resource Development Program (YRDP) in Cambodia. Her responsibility such as to organize and mobilize youth from universities to participate in different awareness raising events on national
resource revenue transparency and social environment impacts from extractive industries issues. She also provides technical and spiritual supports to core group of the project and to insure their work are effectively. In addition, she assists supervisor in M & E in whole project, updates EI progress, challenges, and do activity reports.

Saw Alex Htoo is the Deputy Director of the Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN). He has been heavily involved in local, national and regional campaigns on sustainable use and management of
natural resources, large scale hydropower, mining, plantation agriculture projects, land confiscations and refugee resettlement, and on International Financial Institutions' reengagement in Burma/Myanmar. He
closely monitors Burma/Myanmar's current reforms, especially in regard to the peace-building processes and the increase in natural resource extraction after the signing of ceasefire agreements between central Burma/Myanmar government and leaders of ethnic armed groups. He is also one of the national representatives of civil society organization representing at Myanmar's Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (MEITI).
Saw Alex Htoo is also a journalist who has written articles on the civil war conflicts, natural resource management, transparency and accountability issues and foreign investment in conflict areas. He has worked in conflict areas for more than seven years, and has represented KESAN as a speaker at conferences, as a facilitator, translator and organizer at workshops, and has recently conducted trainings and dialogue sessions with conflict affected communities and ethnic armed group leaders in Eastern Burma/Myanmar.

Somaia has completed a postgraduate Master of Arts course in Economics Governance and Development on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and a BA
Economics course in Pune University, Pune, India. The courses have expanded her perspectives and knowledge of the contemporary economic development issues in the region, particularly in Afghanistan, as well as the role of existing actors in addressing them. During her studies she has successfully maintained a high GPA demonstrating strong academic performances. She achieved outstanding academic records and received multiple awards during my post and undergraduate studies as well.
Also, she has experiences of working with Ministry of Finance in Afghanistan with the perspectives of internationally distinguished organizations such as Monitoring Agent of the World Bank (MA/ARTF) and Deloitte LLP as Debt Management Advisor. She worked for UN Habitat for period of 16 months as Reporting officer too. She believe her studies and practical work experience have helped me to obtain a good understanding of the direct relation between good governance and policy making, socio-economic growth, and conflict prevention. 

Senior Researcher of Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEA). IDEA is embarking on the project to improve the governance of oil and gas sector in Malaysia. As senior researcher at IDEAS, I am honored to
be given responsibility to manage the project. However, as someone who has not been trained particularly in oil and gas industry, I will need to improve my knowledge on the industry to be able to run the project successfully.

Active in Indonesian Forum for Environment (WALHI) Yogyakarta since 2003. Now he is a regional board of Walhi that responsible to supervise, monitor and evaluate program. He did some researches in mining topic on 2005 (Environmental Impact Assessment of PT Margola Mining, Magelang, Central Java Province, WALHI Yogyakarta -LBH Yogya)and 2010 (Environmental Impact Assessment of Pig Iron Mining, Kulonprogo, Yogyakarta Province, WALHI Yogyakarta; Environmental Impact Assessment of Gold Mining, Pacitan, East Java, WALHI Yogyakarta).

Tenti Kurniawati, coordinator department of governance budget for the fulfillment of ecosoc right IDEA Association (January 2013 –present). Responsibilities: Develop, navigate and supervision the program to
improve local planning and budgeting process with a gender perspective, and poverty reduction; Develop,navigate and supervision the program to improve social community participatory monitoring with social audit isntrument, budget tracking istrumen, citizen report card instrument; Develop, navigate and supervision the program to improve transparency and accountability of revenue and spending from mining.

She is Coalition Facilitator for Pyoe Pin Program. The program supports the development and partnership and participatory process to assist the people of Myanmar to improve their standard of living, building
opportunities for more effective delivery services, social justice and economic growth. Pyoe Pin Program engages with CSO, indivisual and private sector to identify commision and implement issues based project
(IBPs) that will contribute to furthering the principles of democratic and accountable governance in Myanmar. One of her responsibility is facilitate the process of defining partner roles and activities to be financed by the project in such a way they contribute coherently to the achievment of the objective of the IBP.

Married to Novy V. Miñon; blessed with 3 kids (Vince Mikael, Bjorn Von & Tiara Justine); a CPA by profession; an assistant professor at Romblon State University; an extensionist and enjoys working with the community; an advocate of environmental protection; and loves outdoor activities. 

Tricia Yeoh is Chief Operating Officer of IDEAS (Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs). She was up to recently Research Director of Institut Rakyat, an independent think tank affiliated with Parti Keadilan Rakyat (KEADILAN), a Malaysian opposition party. She was formerly Research Officer to the Selangor Menteri Besar at the Selangor State Government, and has previously served as Director of the ASLI Centre for Public Policy Studies. She is a regular columnist at theSun, the Penang Monthly magazine, and wrote for Selangor Times before it had to wrap up. She writes on national socio-economic policy and has delivered various presentations at national and international platforms. She is qualified in Econometrics and Marketing from Monash University, and holds a MSc. in Research Methods in Psychology from theUniversity of Warwick. She sits on the Monash University Business School Advisory Board and Centre for Public Policy Studies’ Advisory Panel.
She is editor of the newly published book “The Spirit of Merdeka” and its Malay version "Jiwa Merdeka" (jointly edited with Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad), the book “The Road to Reform: Pakatan Rakyat in Selangor” and its Malay version, “Liku-liku Reformasi: Pakatan Rakyat di Selangor” and author of the book, “States of Reform: Governing Selangor and Penang”. Her documentary, “The Rights of the Dead”, which tells the story of the Teoh Beng Hock who died in 2009 under the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s watch, won the Justin Louis Award at the FreedomFilmFest 2012 and was selected for screening at the Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival,
Doha, Qatar, in 2013. She is recipient of the Meritorious Service Medal (Pingat Jasa Kebaktian), conferred by the Selangor Sultan (Pingat Jasa Kebaktian, PJK).