Alumni

Nguyen is a lecturer at the Mining management Department. She also serves as the vice head of the department. Besides, she is registered as a member of associations, such as Vietnam Association of Economic Geology, Society of Mining Professors, International Social Security Association - ISSA Mining, and Vietnam Mining Science and Technology. She holds doctor degree of engineering from RWTH Aachen, Germany and Master of Mining Management from HUMG, Vietnam. She has written number of journal publications and books. She has expertise on mining industries, including management, mineral economic, sustainable development, and risk management.

Mi Mi Tin Ngwe works at Design and Monitoring Directorate (DMD) that is responsible to design and monitor all aspects of IRD’s tax administration as well as concerning the services to make it easy for taxpayers. Prior to her role at DMD, she served as an Assistant Manager in Myanma Investment and Commercial Bank for five years. She holds Bachelor of Economic from Yangon University of Economics.

She concerns on Tax Structure reform and keen to improve knowledge and technical skills in natural resource revenue sharing.

Since March 2013 working at ICEL as researcher assistant and has concern on Promoting Right to Information, Conducted research on various environmental issues such as Environmental Impact Assesment, environmental permit, etc

Nitish is an economist working as a researcher on the issues related to trade, natural resources, resource efficiency, geopolitics and sustainable development. In related to extractive sector, he is suggesting a framework for mineral revenue management, carrying out policy analysis at different lifecycle stages of mining starting from exploration, processing of minerals and mine closure. He assists the Indian Resource Panel to address the gaps that hinder the performance of extractive sector in India. Moreover he has been asked to prepare a roadmap for Afghanistan and Myanmar for managing their extractive sector as part of the activity with DFID.  He also looks at the effect of trade restriction on the mineral sector.

Nurwachid is a staff at the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs. He has the tasks to collect data for policy making in mineral and coal sectors. His responsibilities are analyzing and presenting the data as well as writing a report for the minister. A part of his assignment, he supports the Indonesia EITI Secretariat in preparing the annual report and instrumental in compiling Roadmap of Beneficial Ownerships. He has graduated from Geological Engineering in Universitas Gadjah Mada. He joined the ministry in 2014 and serves as the officer at the energy and mineral resources sectors. He has taken apart in ”7^th EITI Global Conference” in Peru and “2016 OGP Asia Pacific Regional Dialogue” in the Philippines.  

Saw Paul Sein Twa is the executive director and co‐founder of the Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN), a community‐based grassroots organization working alongside Indigenous Karen communities in Burma. Paul has been working on social and environmental issues in Burma’s conflict areas since 1996. Since KESAN’s founding in 2001, he has built it into a widely‐respected organization collaborating closely with local communities to deliver practical, substantive and empowering community development solutions to large numbers of people in remote areas affected by one of the world’s longest‐running conflicts. As the leading spokesperson for KESAN and several networks of border‐based organizations including Karen Rivers Watch (KRW), Burma Environmental Working Group (BEWG) and Karen Peace Support Network (KPSN),

Paul advocates for sustainable socioeconomic development solutions. Under Paul’s direction, KESAN has become an effective force working to improve governance of Burma’s lands, waters, forests, and natural resources, while promoting community‐determined development in the context of ethnic peoples’ vision of durable peace and genuine well‐being.

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.

Mr. Pham Kien Trung is a lecturer at Hanoi University of Mining and Geology (HUMG) with 7-year working experience. In recent years, he concentrated on the Environmental Management field, specifically Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and published several papers at International Scientific Conferences and Scientific Journals. He attended short courses about Risk Management, Quality Management (University of Applied Sciences Georg Agricola in Bochum), Green Growth (USAID, UNDP). After his research in Chiang Mai University, he focused on a comparative study on EIA, CSR between Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam. He received an award from the Rector of HUMG and Dean for his excellent lecturer and research.

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.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of the Philippines - Manila. Currently working as a researcher and campaigner in the Research, Education, and Advocacy Unit of the Center for Environmental Concerns - Philippines, she is conducting research work on environmental and socio-economic issues such as industrial waste and watershed flooding. She is also involved in environmental education activities and policy lobbying for environmental legislation.

Raras is currently working on a research project related to reform in Indonesian oil and gas sector under the supervision of IDeA. This research aims to document reform that is taking place particularly in the oil and gas sub-sector in the country. Previously, she was a journalist with The Jakarta Post. She spent years covering various issues, particularly the energy and mining sector. She holds bachelor degree in International Relations from Universitas Gadjah Mada.

Rendy teaches at the Bangka Belitung University but primarily work as the executive secretary of The Ilalang Institute, a non-government organization based in Bangka. His main responsibility in the organization is leading the implementation of several projects such as research, public discussion, public school, seminar. Furthermore, he is also responsible to establish and maintain a network with other stakeholders from the government, university, parliament, political party, activist, and the non-government organizations in Bangka. The mission of his organization is to increase public awareness and taking into account concerns of all stakeholders with regard to the mining governance in Bangka. Rendy holds a master of arts from the Gadjah Mada University. Now, he is also active as a member of board for education representative- Babel Islands Province for 2014-2019 period.

Since march 2013 working at Indonesian Center for Environmental Law (ICEL) as Assistant Researcher. Previuously working for Creative Commons Indonesia (CCID), an Indonesian affiliate of Creative Commons (CC) to support the use of CC licenses as copyright policy for digital works. Part of CC global network in seventy two countries.

Rizky is as Program Manager for Openness and Extractive Governance at PWYP Indonesia. She also leads a project on the coal trading governance aiming to identify the loophole in the coal trading mechanism and assist a project on the land-based mining governance improvement, with focuses on the improvement of mining licensing and environmental rehabilitation. Additionally, Rizky is responsible for the financial modelling project in the Asia Pacific region as a continuation of her participation in the financial modelling workshop conducted by Open Oil, a Berlin-based consultative agency on open data and extractive sector. Her role in PWYP Indonesia is not limited to project management, but also includes network management and knowledge product development.

As Advocacy Officer, seats and represents the sector of non government organizations in many different special bodies and sectoral meetings; liaison for policy reforms ensuring the integration of the MDGs; Visits communities for organizing, planning, review of organizational policies and developments; monitors project implemented; conduct IECs and Trainings on site; work closely with and build partnership among the LGUs (Brgy., Municipal, Provincial), line agencies of the government (DA, DENR, DILG, DSWD, NEDA, NCIP, among others), House of Representatives and Senate of the Philippines; network with partners, fellow advocates, supporters and funders, with NGOs local, national and international; media / press people engagement; prepares and submit regular reports.