Bio-data of Sumernet reviewers
| 17 August 2011
| Reviewers | Short bio-data |
| Ms Naomi Oates Climate and Development Knowledge (CDKN) 66 Hamilton Road, Oxford OX2 7PZ, UK Tel: +44 (0)7811442346 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Naomi Oates is a Research Assistant with the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) Global Research team, based at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in London. Her particular interests are: climate change, adaptation and resilience; environment & natural resources management; governance and politics of climate change; water sector; and rural growth and livelihood security. With CDKN she is supporting the development and management of the Innovation Fund and the International and Regional research calls on Climate Change and Development. She is also coordinating the CDKN Masters Research Award. Naomi holds an MSc in Climate Change and International Development from the University of East Anglia (UK) and has a strong knowledge of the contemporary international development context, including current policy debates, coupled with a sound understanding of climate change and environmental issues. She has had experience working and living abroad for an extensive period of time in Zambia, with shorter periods spent in Ethiopia and other developing countries. In the UK she has previously worked for the environmental charity ‘Trees for Cities’ as well as for the international NGO ‘SOS-Sahel International UK’. |
 Dr Takeshi Takama JICA INDONESIA OFFICE, Sentral Senayan II, 14th Floor Jl. Asia Afrika No.8, Gelora Bung Karno-Senayan, Jakarta PUSAT 10270, INDONESIA E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Takeshi Takama is a JICA expert working on a climate change assignment as well serving as a visiting fellow with the Stockholm Environment Institute’s Asia Centre. He had been working for SEI’s Oxford office engaged in projects with the Stockholm Centre related to energy, climate change and human behaviours in Africa and Asia. He has a PhD (DPhil) and MSc from the School of Environment and Geographic, University of Oxford. |
 Ms Dina Khan Sub-Regional Coordinator – Climate and Development Knowledge Network Asia House no. 1, Old Firing Rang Drive, Main Bani Gala Road, Bani Gala, Islamabad Tel: 92 300 5921766 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
As part of the regional Climate Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) team based at LEAD Pakistan, Dina is coordinating a portfolio of technical assistance and research projects across Asia. She has years of experience in designing and managing development programs on issues including education, livelihoods and climate change. She developed a pioneering Climate Action Program for LEAD in 2008 offering the first programmatic and multi-tiered approach on the issue in Pakistan, and also spearheaded the establishment of several LEAD climate change forums including the Knowledge Network on Climate Change (KNCC), Climate Leaders Action Network (CLAN) and National Alliance for Climate Action (NACA). Dina has also been involved in climate change scoping and strategy planning exercises at sub-regional levels, particularly in South, Southeast, and Central Asia Dina has worked on grass-roots issues with a leading community development organization in KPK and has also worked with the USAID funded Competitiveness Support Fund. She holds an MBA from Pakistan and a Master’s degree in HR Management from Durham University, UK. She has also undergone years long training on Sustainable Development and Climate Change as part of global Leadership Development Program (LDP) at LEAD. |
 Dr Dao Trong Tu Centre for Sustainable Water Resources Development and Adaptation of Climate Change (CEWAREC), Vietnam National Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (VINCID) 114 Yen Lac street Hai Ba Trung district Hanoi, Vietnam Tel:(84-4) 38622427 Mob:(84) 913234562 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Dao Trong Tu is a specialist in water policy and legislation, as well as the Director of the Consulting Centre for Sustainable Water Resources Development and Climate Change Adaptation (CEWAREC)-Vietnam Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (VNCID); a lecturer on Policy and Legislation Module of the Master Course of Cologne University of Germany and Vietnam Academy of Water Resources; Country Liaison Scientist for IWMI in Vietnam; Standing Member of the Vietnam Water Partnership (VNWP); Member for Vietnam in Steering Committee of Global Water Partnership of South East Asia (GWP-SEA SC); Member of the Advisory Board of Vietnam River Network (VRN). His fields of experience and interest are an integrated water resources management; hydropower sustainable development; river basin organization (RBOs); Climate change adaptation. His credential papers include series of papers published on international and national publications on sustainable water resources management, RBOs, Mekong water resources development and management, MRC and Vietnam hydropower development etc. |
 Dr Andrew Noble Research Programme Manager Australian Centre for International Agriculture Research (ACIAR) GPO Box 1571, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. Tel: +61 2 6217 0561 Fax: +61 2 6217 0501 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Dr Andrew Noble is the Research Programme Manager for Land and Water Resources for the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) based in Canberra Australia. Prior to this appointment he served as Regional Director for the International Water Management Institute for Southeast and Central Asia based in Vientiane, Lao PDR. His research career in agriculture spans over 30 years and includes research and academic assignments in South Africa, Australia and Southeast Asia. His current research interests range from the rehabilitation of abandoned saline/sodic irrigated soils in Central Asia to enhancing the productivity of rainfed production systems in Southeast Asia. Prior to joining IWMI in 2002, he was a Principal Research Scientist with the CSIRO Land and Water based in Townsville, Australia, where he worked in both the wet and semi-arid tropics on issues associated with land degradation and its rehabilitation. This included working with farmers in improving the nutrition of sugarcane, assessing the potential role of clay based materials in rehabilitating degraded soils and managing legume based pasture systems in the semi-arid tropics. He has held Lecturing positions (1982 – 1989) at the University of KwaZulu Natal South Africa and served as Project Leader and Principal Research Scientist with the Institute for Commercial Forestry Research (1989 – 1992) working in the area of commercial plantation forestry. He has over 120 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters and over 100 conference proceedings. He has supervised several MSc and PhD theses and is on the editorial board of several international journals. |
| Dr Ampai Harakunarak Task Manager, GEF-International Waters United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Building, 2nd Floor, Block B, Rajdamnern Nok Avenue, Bangkok 10200 Thailand Tel: 66 2 288 1977 Mob: +66 81 948 9441 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Ampai Harakunarak joined the UNEP/DGEF/ROAP in May 2009 as the Task Manager, responsible for developing and managing GEF-funded international waters projects in the Asia and the Pacific region. Prior to joining UNEP, she served as a Senior Director of the Thailand Environment Institute (an NGO), the Environment Unit Manager at the UNDP’s Thailand Office, an Operation Officer of World Bank’s Bangkok Office, and a Policy and Plan Analyst of Thailand’s national planning agency – the Office of the National Economic and Social Development Board, Office of the Prime Minister. She has over 20 years experience in natural resources and environmental management and planning, poverty alleviation and rural development, marine and coastal policy and management, and institutional support and capacity development programs, particularly in Thailand and SE Asia. Her major areas of work before moving to UNEP include coastal erosion management and planning, community-based environmental management, environmental education, disaster preparedness education, and education for sustainable development (ESD). Ampai holds a doctoral degree in Marine Studies (Marine Policy) from University of Delaware, USA; a master’s degree in Natural Resources Management from Cornell University, USA; and a master’s degree in Economics from Thammasat University, Thailand. |
 Dr Hu Tao Senior Environmental Economist Policy Research Center of Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), China 1 Yuhuinanlu Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100029 Tel: +86 10 8463 1133 Fax: +86 10 8463 1133 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Dr. HU Tao is the Senior Environmental Economist of Policy Research Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), China. Previously he served as the Program Coordinator for the UN-China Climate Change Partnership Framework Program (CCPF) during 2009-2010 and served as a member of Lead Expert Group China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) from 2001-2007. He is also the Chief Expert for WTO and Environment Expert Group, Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), China. He’s been visiting professor of Renmin University of China (RUC), Beijing Normal University (BNU), and University of Oregon, US. He is an affiliate Faculty Member of College of Business, Oregon State University, US.. He also provides environmental policy consulting services to the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Global Environmental Facility and other international and foreign aid organizations. Dr. HU Tao’s research topics cover environmental economics, policies and governance; globalization, trade and environment; and climate change. |
 Dr Chu Thai Hoanh Principle water resources specialist International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Regional Office for Southeast Asia c/o NAFRI, Nongviengkham Village, Xaythany District Vientiane, Lao PDR Tel: +856-21-770076 Fax: +856-21-770076 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Chu Thai Hoanh has over 35 years of experience in research and management in agriculture and water management including: hydraulic modeling, crop modeling, optimization, and production supply-demand and climate change scenario analysis. In the early 70’s he was the chief hydrologist in charge of hydrological measurement and analysis for the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam. During 1976 - 1996, he was in charge of hydrological measurement, water modeling and remote sensing applications for water resources planning and management in South Vietnam. He also served as a lecturer on remote sensing at the University of Ho Chi Minh City (1987-1989). He joined the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines in 1997 to conduct research in GIS and water modeling for rice and shrimp production in the coastal area, crop modeling and socio-economic analysis for regional and national balancing of rice supply and demand, and developing optimization models for land use planning with many case studies in India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. In 2001, he was awarded a medal by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam in recognition of his contributions to Agriculture and Rural Development. Since May 2003 he has served with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) as both senior and principal Water Resources Specialist on water modeling for managing conflicts between agriculture and aquaculture, and for analyzing climate change scenarios, companion modeling that combines role-playing games with agent-based models for facilitating integrated water resources management. Recently he has served as an international specialist for the Mekong River Commission (MRC) to analyze climate change scenarios, as theme leader for irrigation for the Mekong Program on Water Environment and Resilience (M-Power) and as research coordinator of Sumernet (Sustainable Mekong Research Network). |
 Dr Louis Lebel Director Unit for Social and Environmental Research (USER) Faculty of Social Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand Tel/Fax: 66 53 265 103 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Louis Lebel has been with Chiang Mai University since 1999 and began working in Thailand in 1991. He has on-going research interests and a range of publications spanning ecology, epidemiology and public health, political science and environmental governance. He helps lead and coordinate the Mekong Program on Water, Environment and Resilience (M-POWER) a network of some 30 organizations committed to improving livelihood security, human and ecosystem health in the Mekong Region through democratizing water governance. He has contributed to several of the international global environmental change research programs over the past 15 years. He was first with the IGBP-GCTE International Project Office in Canberra, Australia, from where he helped establish the Global Changes Impacts Centre for Southeast Asia in Bogor, Indonesia. Later as a Science Coordinator for START programmes he drove the development of the ambitious Integrated Study Science Plan on “Global Change and Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia” and was active in promoting and facilitating the work of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) within Southeast Asia, contributing to a number projects relevant to the programmes on institutions, industrial transformation, human security and water. He also served on the first international steering committee for the Global Carbon Project and currently serves on the committees for the “Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study” and the IHDP’s Earth System Governance Project. |
 Dr Kien Tran Mai Climate Change Programme Officer Climate Change and Adaptation Initiative Environment Division, Mekong River Commission Secretariat Unit 18 Ban Sithane Neua, Sikhotabong District, Vientiane, Lao PDR Tel: (856-21) 263 263, ext 2418. Fax: (856-21) 263 264 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Dr Kien Tran-Mai is currently the Climate Change Programme Officer of the Mekong River Commission and is based in Vientiane, Lao PDR. He has 14-years of research and working experience in the field of global environmental change and climate change studies. He joined the MRC in 2008 and has been responsible for, and contributed to, the formulation and current implementation of the MRC Climate Change and Adaptation Initiative. His research interests include climate change adaptation and mitigation, disaster risk reduction, climate policy, community-based adaptation, stakeholders participation through to environmental health and public health. His initial University background is Medical Science (graduated with a full-time diploma of “Doctor of Medicine” on 1993), then he shifted to publish health and environmental health researches and had got his PhD degree in 2000 in Russian Federation, with the topic of global environmental change and its impacts to public health. During 2007-2008, he got a scholarship and has done a post-doctoral research on “Climate change impacts on public health in Vietnam” for the Graduate School on Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. He has published several peer reviewed international journal articles and book chapters on climate change and publish health, has teaching practice in Universities in Vietnam and has been resource speaker and presenter in many international conferences, seminars and workshops. Prior to joining the MRC, he has been working as a senior researcher and department’s deputy director of the Vietnam National Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment (IMHEN) and had contributed to the development of the Vietnam National Climate Change Strategy – the “National Target Programme to respond to Climate Change” (NTP). Besides, he was associate editor of the “Viet Nam National Strategy on Clean Development Mechanism” as well as task leader/technical advisor for some of the very first community-based climate change adaptation projects in Vietnam such as “Climate change impacts in Huong river basin, Thua Thien Hue province and adaptation in its coastal district Phu Vang” under the Netherlands Climate Assistant Program (NCAP); Project “Benefits on climate change adaptation from small and medium scale hydropower plants: Synergies and trade-off with rural development” supported by Danida. |
 Dr Albert Salamanca Research fellow Stockholm Environment Institute (Asia) Bangkok 10330 Thailand T: +66 (0)2 251 4415 (ext. 107) Fax: +66 (0)2 251 4419 E: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Dr. Albert has over 15 years of experience in several Southeast Asian working on natural resources management, conservation, development and sustainable livelihoods issues. He has more than ten years experience in managing multi-country research partnerships and has research experience in Cambodia, Laos, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. He has a multidisciplinary background covering biology, tropical coastal and freshwater fisheries, environmental management and development, and human geography. His research has focused on the themes of peri-urban water conflicts, agrarian transition, risk and vulnerabilities, mobility and spatial linkages, livelihoods, peri-urban aquatic food production systems, and governance of natural resources. His previous appointments include Assistant Scientist, the WorldFish Center in Penang, Malaysia; Research Associate of the Challenges in the Agrarian Transition of Southeast Asia Project (ChATSEA); Program Specialist of AIT Extension in Bangkok, Thailand, and Program Coordinator of Haribon Foundation. Albert holds a PhD on human geography from Durham University, UK and completed his master’s studies at the Australian National University, Canberra. Albert also regularly lectures for the Norwegian educational provider, Kulturstudier, for its courses held in Vietnam. |
 Dr Carl Middleton Lecturer Master of Arts in International Development Studies (MAIDS), Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Henri-Dunant Rd. Pathumwan, Bangkok, 10330 Thailand Mob: 66 84 681 5332 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Dr. Carl Middleton is a Lecturer with the Master of Arts in International Development Studies (MAIDS) Programme at the Faculty of Political Science of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. He graduated from the University of Manchester, UK with a Bachelor in Civil Engineering, and a Doctorate in Environmental Chemistry. From 2003 to 2005 he worked in Cambodia with several local NGOs on issues related to natural resource use and protection. Since 2006 he has worked with the NGO International Rivers where he has monitored the dam building industry and promoted better planning processes for sustainable and equitable use of water and energy resources. Since 2009, he has taught on the MAIDS programme, where his teaching and research focuses on environmental policy and politics, with a particular interest in the political ecology and governance of water and energy resources in the Mekong Region. |
 Dr Chanon Thaicharoen Technical Officer Climate Change and Adaptation Initiative Environment Division Mekong River Commission (MRC) Tel: 856-21-263-263 ext. 3705 Fax: 856-21-263-264 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
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 Dr Saichon Seedaeng Senior Research Fellow Institute of Water Policy Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy National University of Singapore 469C Bukit Timah Road | Oei Tiong Ham | Singapore 259772 Tel: (+65) 6601-1431 Fax: (+65) 6468-4186 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Saichon Seedang is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Her research interests focus on economic and environmental policy for managing water demand, adopting water conservation technologies, and protecting natural and environmental resources. Prior to joining IWP, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor conducting research and coordinating projects with the Institute of Water Research and the Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation, and Resource Studies at Michigan State University. Her past research projects include an economic analysis of alternative river and floodplain restoration, a survey of groundwater uses and demand estimation, the use of market-based applications for groundwater withdrawal management, and economic valuation and modeling implications for land use and watershed management. She also has more than ten year's experience working with environmental consulting companies in Thailand conducting and managing environmental and engineering research projects. Dr. Seedang received her Doctoral degree in Environmental Sciences with an emphasis in Environmental and Resource Economics from Oregon State University. |
 Dr Patma Vityakon Associate Professor Land Resources and Environment Section, Department of Plant Science and Agricultural Resources Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kaen University Khon Kaen University 40002, Thailand Tel: +66 43 364639 Fax: +66 43 364640 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Patma Vityakon is an Associate Professor of Soil Science at Khon Kaen University, Thailand. She has more than 30 years of experience teaching and conducting research in Northeast Thailand related to soil fertility with special emphasis on soil organic matter and soil fertility influence on agroforestry. She has also conducted interdisciplinary research on employing social science techniques, such as rapid rural appraisal (RRA), to study rural farming systems. She obtained her PhD in Soil Science from the university of Hawaii at Manoa, USA in 1986. |
 Mr Christer Holtsberg Interim Director Yunus Center at AIT AIT Conference Center, Asian Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand Tel: 66 2 524 6365 Fax: 66 2 524 5003 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Mr. Christer has an economic educational background from Stockholm University, supplemented by studies in political and environmental sciences with a focus on rural development, natural resources management, and more recently, issues related to climate change. For the past five years he has been addressing issues of regional cooperation and integration for sustainable development and climate change adaptation in Southeast Asia. He has more than 35 years experiences addressing economic and environmental challenges in developing economies including assessments of policies and institutional arrangements. 25 of those years have been based in various Asian countries including Thailand, Bangladesh, India and Lao PDR. He has served in a variety of capacities including: team leader for policy assessments, program development, appraisal and evaluations in numerous countries including Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Vietnam and other countries. He has also served as a long term technical advisor for rural development programmes in Bangladesh; He has wide range of experience interacting and negotiation with governments, international organizations and civil society organizations. His management experience includes working with the Swedish government through the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), international organizations including UNDP. Government positions held include Director of Department for National Resources Development and the Environment at Sida in Stockholm, Chargé d’Affaires at the Swedish Embassy in Lao PDR (2000 – 2004) and Minister and Director of the Swedish Environment Secretariat for Asia (SENSA) at the Swedish Embassy in Bangkok (2004 – 2009). |
 Dr Chayanis Krittasudthacheewa Deputy Director Stockholm Environment Institute (Asia) Bangkok 10330 Thailand T:+66 (0)2 251 4415 Fax: +66 (0)2 251 4419 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Dr. Chayanis specialises in the fields of hydrology, water resources engineering and management, hydro-climatic prediction, as well as regional scale hydrology and water resources modeling. Chayanis works for the Mekong Basin Focal Project in assessing water poverty and developing the WEAP (‘Water Evaluation And Planning’ system) for the Mekong basin-wide scenarios. She is leading the IPS WEAP 2007-2009 Project with an aim to develop the relevant capacities of WEAP within the SEI Asia Centre and elsewhere in Asia. She is also involved in the IPS Phnom Penh Water Relations Project, the Connectivity of Population to Waste Water Treatment Project funded by the Unilever and the Bayesian Methods for Poverty and Livelihood Analysis Project funded by the SEI NOVA (SEI research innovation fund) 2008. Chayanis holds a Ph.D. in Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Her dissertation on “Integrated Water Resources Management in Thailand with Hydro-climatic Prediction” won two awards from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the University of Tokyo in 2003. Prior to joining SEI, Chayanis worked as a Programme Officer and Operational Hydrologist at the Mekong River Commission, Vientiane where she focused on managing the hydro-meteorological database, formulating and managing several projects relevant to water resources monitoring and data collection activities, and undertaking various hydro-meteorological analyses as required by the MRC programmes. Previously Chayanis worked as a water resources engineer for the consulting firms including: Dhara Consultants, PAL Consultants and ASPAC Consultants. She has also worked as a research assistant for the Asian Institute of Technology, an international academic institute in Bangkok, Thailand. |
 Ms Muanpong Juntopas Research fellow Stockholm Environment Institute (Asia) Bangkok 10330 Thailand T:+66 (0)2 251 4415 Fax: +66 (0)2 251 4419 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Muanpong is a socio-economic specialist with a public policy background. She has worked for 16 years in the Mekong region both at micro and macro level. She has worked at the grassroots level in project implementation as well as the macro level in policy work at national and regional levels. Her work experiences in the Lower Mekong countries has included local planning and governance, poverty reduction and food security strategy, public participation, social analysis, social impact assessment, stakeholder analysis, rapid rural appraisal, and project formulation and implementation. She has worked in Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand on these subjects. With her eight years experience in Cambodia she speaks Khmer fluently and possesses an in-depth understanding of their culture and subcultures. She understands Khmer social interactions, their dynamism as well as political arena, and accompanying power relations. She worked with local communities around Tonle Sap Lake at commune level for five years, thus has gained a good understanding of livelihood linkage to wetland resources, as well as different interest groups associated with them. Juntopas is well versed in working with multi disciplinary teams in natural resources management projects in the region. She is experienced in cross- sectorial analysis working with other sector experts (wetland ecologist, botanist, fishery experts, ornithologist, hydrologist, agronomist, economist, extension officers, civil engineers). She also possess experience of in social –economic development planning that emphasizes natural resources as an effective way to interact with people of very different views. She has worked as a consultant to, and staff of, UNDP, FAO, IUCN, Save the children, World Education and Danida Environment projects. She has also worked with the MRC (Mekong River Commission) and in partnership with ministries /department of rural development, and environment of Mekong countries. Born native Thai in rural province, Juntopas has a BA from Khon Kaen University and Master in Public Policy from Seattle Washington. |
 Dr Sabita Thapa |
Dr. Sabita Thapa is the Climate Change and Natural Resources Adviser at Nepal-based DFID. Sabita is a specialist in community-based natural resource management in the Asia-Pacific Region. Currently her interest and work focus on climate change adaptation, conservation, development planning and gender mainstreaming. Sabita was previously a Research Fellow at the SEI Asia Centre until 2011. She was involved in the Regional Climate Change Adaptation Platform Project and Sustainable Mekong Research Network (Sumernet) Programme. She brings with her more than 10 years work experience in community based natural resource management in teh Asia-Pacific Region. Prior to joining SEI, Sabita worked with the UNDP Solomon Islands, World Wildlife Fund (WWF Nepal), UNDP Kathmandu SURF and Kathmandu University. She has primarily worked in community forestry, protected areas management and integrated water management. She specializes in programme development, planning, monitoring and outcome evaluation. Sabita holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Leeds (UK), a Masters Degree in Environmental Science from Pune University (India) and a BSc in Microbiology from Tribhuvan University (Nepal). |
 Ms Orn-uma Polpanich Research associate Stockholm Environment Institute (Asia) Bangkok 10330 Thailand Tel:+66 (0)2 251 4415 Fax: +66 (0)2 251 4419 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Orn-uma is currently involved in the follow-up of the Sustainable Mekong Research Network programme (Sumernet) as well as projects on agricultural systems in Thailand and assessments on the management of the Mekong region. She specializes in land and water management in Asian developing countries. Her experience includes the integration of remote sensing and geographic information system (RS/GIS) with disaster and environmental management. |
 Dr Michelle Kooy Senior Research Coordinator Climate and Development Knowledge Network Overseas Development Institute 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JD, UK Tel: +44 (0) 20 7922 8237 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Dr. Michelle Kooy is a Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in London, UK. Michelle is also a Global Research Coordinator for the Climate Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), as part of the Global research team based at ODI. Her portfolio of work at ODI consists of research on water and climate compatible development, as well as the political economy of water supply and sanitation service delivery, and financing of urban water supply and sanitation infrastructure. Within CDKN she is working with the global team at ODI to develop global research calls on climate change and development, and working with the CDKN Asia regional team at LEAD Pakistan to commission research projects in South and Southeast Asia. She has a PhD in Geography from the University of British Colombia (Canada), and has worked in various countries in the Middle East and Asia. Prior to working with ODI Michelle worked in Indonesia on urban development, poverty reduction, urban climate change resilience and pro-poor water and sanitation policy as the Director of Urban Programmes for Mercy Corps. |
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Dr John Soussan Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
John Soussan is a Professor at the Stockholm Environment Institute and Science Director of the SEI Asia Centre in Bangkok. He plays a lead role in programs in water and sanitation in Asia and the Pacific. His work focuses on research capacity building, research proposal development and quality control of research publications. In his research, his work focuses on the people-resource-policy relationships in developing countries, with a particular focus on Asia. A geographer by training, John has extensive experience in the management of inter-disciplinary approaches in different aspects of sustainable development and has a track record of major projects funded by a range of organisations, including bilateral donors, multilateral development banks, UN agencies and environmental NGOs. He has made a significant contribution to sustainable development policy formulation both at the national level and for international agencies in fields such as water management, coastal zone development and the mainstreaming of environmental issues into national development policies. John has worked in over 50 countries and has expertise in a range of environmental and development issues including water resources, energy, strategic environmental assessment, land resou7rces, community forestry, service and infrastructure planning, coastal zone development, livelihoods analysis, poverty reduction strategies and policy development. |
