Alumni

Ben serves as the Executive Director of the Philippine Grassroots Engagement in Rural Development Foundation, In.  He led several evaluations of projects on rural poverty reduction and technical assistance with local and international program which were done in various countries. He works using participatory Goal Oriented Project Planning framework for rural poverty reduction projects that has been established in several regions in the country particularly in Caraga and ARMM regions. His current engagements include: Civil Society Member of the Multi-Partite Stakeholder Group in the Philippine EITI at national and the sub-national level, and Integrated Coastal Management Planning of the Local Government Units. He is a PhD candidate in Development Administration from Philippine Christian University.

Bum is a documenter and web master in Kachin Development Networking Group (KDNG). He takes responsibility for documentation and research on extracting natural resources as well as implementing development project in Kachin State. He serves as the data collector and works with database. Besides, he has worked with communities and one of the trainers for KDNG’s natural resources policy discussion training for local community.

Cao Hong works with a local government officer of Province of Hagiang province, Vietnam. He has been appointed by Hagiang Provincial People’s Committee as a Chairman for Union of Science and Technology Associations of Hagiang province, Vietnam. His responsibility is implementing reviewer resource extraction policies and advocacy as well as providing information to help local government to apply policy reforms for resource extraction. He holds Master degree of Natural Resources and Environment Management from Hanoi University of Agriculture. He has experienced in number of international forum and training course such as Mongolian-German G7 Fast Tract Partnership workshop on the EITI in Thailand, and training for rice cultivation at Ishikawa Agricultural Research Center, Japan.

Tonet is a human rights lawyer and policy research specialist from the Philippines. She is the Deputy Coordinator of Alternative Law Groups. She conducts trainings on the policy and legal environment of the extractives industry in the Philippines with focus on the social and environmental impacts as well as the transparency and accountability of the extractives companies. She also facilitates dialogues between government, civil society and local communities, and undertakes researches on environmental litigation and community empowerment. She involves actively in environmental advocacy including environmental protection, peace and development, and indigenous peoples’ rights. She holds Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees from Ateneo de Manila University and Postgraduate Diploma on Environment and Natural Resources Management from the University of the Philippines Open University.

Dewi is an independent researcher works on open data, natural resources management, and climate change issues. As the data enthusiast, she has communication skills to reach public awareness related extractive issues through data visualization and presentation. Prior to this work, she served as a junior researcher and field assistant at The Center for Urban and Regional Research at the University of Indonesia and following years joined as project assistant and data analyst at PWYP Indonesia. She was also the EITI Indonesia officer and experienced as participant in EITI Communication and Data Workshop and one of Extractors on PWYP Data Extractors programme. She has a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Indonesia.

Tho serves as the Communication Officer of PanNature for five years. He takes major responsibilities on writing journal reports and developing an environmental journalism network, particularly on biodiversity issues. In the following years, he joined the Vietnam Mining Coalition on advocacy for EITI in 2014 assigned as the Communication Officer. His major responsibilities in this section are developing journalism network on mining issues to enhance advocacy for EITI. Prior to this assignment, he was a reporter worked for Bac Ninh Newspaper and an editor for Nha Nam Book and JSC. He holds degree from National University of Hanoi and qualifications from short-term trainings on media, ITs, and English.

Ferdy serves as a local government officer at the District of Manggarai for almost 20 years. Since 2011, he works in Mining and Energy Office as the Head of Renewable Energy Section. He is responsible to develop framework and working with the communities to cultivate the platform for improving renewable energy. He also provides legal opinion to mining policies for the Head of Office as well as the Head of District. He holds master degree of Law.

Fernando serves as the Program Manager for Land and Housing Justice Action in Haburas Foundation, Friends of the Earth East Timor. In this program, he takes responsibilities of monitoring and evaluating implementation of activities related to land and housing issues, providing policy brief to relevant government agency, and presenting the results from programs to stakeholders. His assignments are including providing training related to project management relates to risk management plan for the program, including mitigation of risk. Prior to this assignment, he was National Advisor for the Secretary of State for Youth and Sport and officer at Adolescent and Youth Development (AYP) at UNICEF. He holds certificate on Peace and Conflict Studies of Rotary International from Chulalangkorn University, Thailand and Master of Public Administration from Flinders University, Australia. He experienced in implementing projects and managing forum both in regional and international coverage.

Harvey is an agricultural technologist of Marinduque State College. He assists faculty members and personnel of the college in formulating research and extension projects. He supports study/project leaders in conducting socio-economic surveys and laboratory field works in study sites based on approved Research project proposal. He as well assist in gathering, tabulating and summarizing data needed in the Research and Extension office and help in the analysis and interpretation of results. He supervises the research aides/enumerators in the efficient conduct of research. Prior to his assignment, he served as an assistant field technician in Team Agro Trading Corporation. He is currently taking Master of Science in Agriculture major in Crop science in Laguna State Polytechnic University and finishes his Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from Benguet State University.

Htoo is a Program Coordinator (EITI/ Communications) at Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability (MATA). For two years ago, he started working as a Communication officer and at the following years, he has been promoted to program coordinator for EITI process. He was graduated from Dagon University, Yangon, with bachelor degree in English. He has a strong sense of devotion for the civil society as a beneficiary of developing capacity for community from the impacts of extractive industries.

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).

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.

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.

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.