Alumni

IZ Aung serves as the Deputy Director of Human Rights and Legal Department at the Humanity Institute, the organization he joined since 2012. In concerning human right issues, he involved on advocacy during the war in Kachin State, Northern Myanmar. In serving this role, he has collaboration with number of networks documented research and cases, such as “Jade Research” and human rights violation cases from Jade Mine area a collaboration project with Transparence and Accountabilities Network for Kachin State (2016); "unheard woods" with United Human Rights group; “Who Killed Ja Seng Ing” with Civil and Political Movement Network (2014); and “Dignity Uprooted” with Human Right Action Group in Northern Myanmar (2012).

Irhash Ahmady, called Irhaz, joined with Walhi National in 2010.  He is very active to campaign ecological disaster amid mainstream issues natural disasters and conduct research especially in extractive industries topics. His writing has been published in various media as well as a book entitled “Java Collapse, From Daendels into the Mud Lapindo (2012). This book as a guide to advocade based about the current crisis especially in Java Island. As the Manager Knowledge Management, he is very active build discourse advocacy movement environment through publication journal and other publications. He actively involved in various international meeting on the issue on sustainable development and renewable energy.

Irhaz graduated from Padjadjaran University in 2006. He has worked for social and politic issues particularly food and energy. He was a founders of students organizations “National Student Front”. He has involved in advocacy of Jatigede big dam and the development agenda in West Java and campaigns national policy issues such as agrarian reform. At the end the lecture, he joined Walhi West Java as volunteer and the staff campaigns and advocacy.

Mining Program Director of Persekutuan Diakonia Pelangi Kasih (PDPK), has been active in PDPK for 7 years. Joined some training related to mining since 2009 (Design and Research of Mining Investigation 2009, Mining Strategy Mining-2009, and Training of Mining Tailing-2012)

Jessie is the National Coordinator for Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Australia. She is responsible to oversee all aspects of project design, implementation and management. This includes grant applications and funding, media management, research and report writing and representing PWYP Australia in domestic and international forums. She holds Bachelors in Social Sciences from the University of Adelaide. Before joining PWYP Australia, She was based in Dili, Timor Leste as a Gender Officer with Seeds of Life and has worked as a Ministerial Adviser to the SA Government.

Joyita is a Research Associate at the Centre for Resource Security and Development Policy in The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi. She has works on issues such as community based natural resource management (CBNRM) and natural resources revenue management. Her work involves field work, and she has traveled to a number of resource rich states in India to understand the concerns of local communities impacted by extractive industries. For a current project on natural resource revenue management, she has screened a large amount of literature on this subject and coded information on it such as intervention and outcome studied. Through this project, policy recommendations will be made for resource revenue management in politically fragile states in general, including Afghanistan and Myanmar.

Researcher on economic and natural resources and Good Government issues at La’o Hamutuk, Timor-Leste Institute for Development Monitor and Analysis. Founder of Ponta-Leste Watch, a local NGO for district development monitoring and advocacy in district of Lautem.

Kamal is an economist and financial analyst in the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum of Afghanistan. He has been working in this organization for the last five years and   has contributed to the development of different extractive sector policies. Among others, he has significantly contributed to the development of the national mining policy, the national petroleum policy, the Extractive Industries Development Framework, as well as minerals and petroleum fiscal regime policies. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Pune University, India and master degree in public finance from the American University of Afghanistan.

Kanti is an associate researcher in Article 33 Indonesia, a non-government organization based in Jakarta. She studied materials science and engineering at Kyoto University, but also exposed to climate change issues during college. She previously worked as program officer at the Habibie Center, supporting research on democratization, local autonomy, dissemination of technology, and media literacy campaign. Since joining A33, she assisted a scoping study on including forestry sector revenues in the EITI–Indonesia system. Then she conducted a series of research on extractive industries revenue administration and transparency, royalties and divestment policy, coal trade value chain. Her publication with other researchers includes the book entitle “Mine, Forest, and Plantation: Governance of Licensing and State Revenue in Land-Based Sectors”.

A member of Transparency International Malaysia since 2000. A mechanical engineering background with post graduate management degrees (MBA & DBA) and has ten (10) years of hands-on working technical
experience in the manufacturing environment covering food & beverages, chemical process, medical devices, rubber and plastic, metal industries, serving in the laboratory, quality assurance, manufacturing and general
management functions. KM Loi has fifteen (15) years of management skill in quality consulting, training and auditing with wide exposure to various industries in the context of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, SA 8000, OHSAS 18001, ISO 13485 & ISO/TS 16949 certifications and good manufacturing practices. He has expanded his experience and knowledge into Corporate Social Responsibility, Accountability, Ethics and Integrity components. He has also attended an Advanced Training program in Total Quality Management under SIDA programme (Sweden).

Khin Nyein Thu is an assitant director in the Ministry of Planning and Finance, Myanmar. She is in charge of collecting and compiling the fiscal status of the 33 state-owned enterprises in Myanmar. She has to analyze the receipt and expenditure from the extractive industries. Her ministry is also trying to help not only to increase income from natural resources but also in conserving natural resources. Her works contributes to the Myanmar EITI report immensely.

Khin Saw Htay works for NRGI as a Myanmar Associate since May 2016. She has been supporting the programs in Myanmar, such as conducting research of resource governance issues, engaging with stakeholders and contributing capacity building program to government ministries, media and CSO. Prior to this assignment, she worked for the Myanmar Development Research Institute /Centre for Economic and Social Development as program coordinator for Myanmar EITI-CESD. She was taking responsibilities for liaising with the Myanmar-EITI multi-stakeholder group and organizing workshops, trainings and meetings.

Khun Myint Naing serves as a spokesperson as well as Project Office Coordinator at Metta Development Foundation (Loikaw). His main responsibilities is ensuring coordination among civil society organizations and different stakeholders, as well as conducting awareness raising training on various issues from land grabbing to gender-based violence. The goal of the network is to ensure that the network provide a strong platform where diverse civil society organizations in Karenni state can come together to find ways to best protect the interests of the local communities against increasing encroachment of the business sector and other interests.

Prior to his role at Loikaw, he served as a coordinator for Christian Social Service and Development Department of Kayah Baptist Association for eight years and experienced in ten-year primary education teaching. He holds Diploma of Education from University of Development National Race in Sagaing Ywar Thit Gyi (1990) and Bachelor of Arts of History from Loikaw University (2005).

Ko Ko Lwin @ Joseph.is from Magway, central part of Burma which is also called dry zone. He was born in October 24, 1989. He studies in faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering department and currently working as Program Officer in SPECTRUM (Sustainable Development Knowledge Network). SPECTRUM is local non-profit organization advocating sustainable development best practices and policies to Myanmar Government, Parliaments and Civil Society groups. He has been working here in SPECTRUM for more than 2 years now. Currently he focuses on Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI), Anti-corruption, Natural Resource Management, Human Rights and Business plus Budget Transparency. He has been working through REDD+ project as one of the solutions for addressing climate change widely within the country. He has been initiated the formation of Myanmar Coalition for Transparency for effective collaboration and coordination between civil society groups and government of Myanmar for future EITI process. Most of his tasks are communication, networking, events organizing and coordinating some team members’ tasks. 

Todays, Ko Ko supports the NRGI-NRC program manager in Myanmar, monitoring developments in extractive industry governance in the region. He is also responsible for coordinating activities that build capacity and partnerships among civil society organizations and other stakeholders.

Ms. Sakamorsnguan is a mining engineer in the public sector. She has been working at the Department of Primary Industries and Mines, Ministry of Industry, Thailand for 15 years. She has done different tasks related to mineral administration and governance which includes knowledge transfer, improvement of operation performance, mining plan inspection, mine site inspection, policy and regulation implementation, revenue management, and international collaboration on mineral issues. Ms. Sakamorsnguan holds a doctoral degree from a reputable university in Germany and she participates in teaching activities from time to time. The topic of her lectures included environmental issues in mining, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability in mining.

Kyaw Moe Hein serves as a Communication Officer at Myanmar EITI. He has experience more than five years in public communication, including attending local and international public committee meetings as a representative, shooting and answering questions, writing and giving press release, holding press conferences as a Master of Ceremonies and media interviews, and acting as liaison between the organization and the media. Prior to that, he served as an executive editor who has responsible to write, translate and edit news, articles or features based on media-research-data both in English and Myanmar, as well as deal with mass communication for negotiation and dialogues.

He holds certificates in various courses, such as International Relations from Yangon University, English from Yangon University of Foreign Languages, writing course from Myanmar Writers and Journalists Association, mass communication from Myanmar Egress. He was a delegate of Myanmar student for Youth Forum on Foreign Policy in India.