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Current Positions:• Director/Founder, Vahu Development Institute (VDI)• Director, Community Development and Civic Empowerment Program, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University (CMU)• Lecturer, Development Management and Political Economics, Faculty of Political Science, CMUDOB: 1966, Rangoon BurmaEnglish Language Proficiency: ExcellentWork Experience:2006 – Present Director/Founder, Vahu Development Institute1998 – 2006 Director, Policy and Research Programs, Burma Fund1996 – 1998 Research Fellow, National University of Singapore1994 – 1996 Intern, Open Society Institute1988 – 1994 Member, All Burma Student Democratic Front, a militant exile group.Education:2003 M.A., Development Finance and Banking, American University 1995 M.A., International Affairs, Columbia University1988 M.B.B.S. (MD), Rangoon Institute of Medicine (Completed six years, but never graduated because he had to leave the country abruptly due to civil unrest.Personal Details:• He is a co-author of Assessing Ceasefire Accords (East-West Center, 2008) and Economic Development of Burma: A Vision and a Strategy (Singapore University Press, 2000). He has contributed many articles, research papers, monographs, and interviews in various publications regarding economic and development issues. • He visited Burma recently where he participated in an economic workshop at Nay Pyi Daw and also met with Aung San Suu Kyi. Commenting on the workshop he said, “I have never heard anything as substantial from several government officials discussing openly and offering a number of thoughts about how the economy can be reformed.”• On sanctions: “Unfortunately our sanctions movement on Burma has [not kept up with the changing environment]. It has kept the same old sanctions since they were {established] in the 1990s. It has never really reviewed them seriously. There are a wide range of sanctions’ instruments on the table and the review should really affect what kind of contribution is made by these instruments; whether they are effective or not and whether they are counterproductive, and how it can be improved. So in many ways stakes are high for outside and inside the country and many factors need to be considered.”Organization Description:Established in 2006, Vahu Development Institute is a Thailand-based think-tank dedicated to policy research, advocacy, and citizen diplomacy in promoting broad-based social transformation and sustained economic development in the least-developed countries of Southeast Asia. The Institute’s specific areas of research specialization include democratic transition, civil-military relations, economic development, security sector reform, peace and conflict, local government and civil society development. VDI serves as a knowledge bank, an advisor to relevant research projects by post-graduate students and action researchers, and a committed partner to international development cooperation. VDI team members feature as analysts for Myanmar and international media, helping to promote dialogue on key issues and to inform current public opinion. VDI produces educational radio programs as well as documentary TV series about policy, reforms, and lessons learned relevant to countries in transition. VDI also organizes a highly-acclaimed program called Community Development and Civic Empowerment Program in cooperation with Chiang Mai University to provide strategic knowledge, managerial skills, leadership talents, and international exposure to community leaders, NGO managers and development practitioners from the least-developed countries of Southeast Asia with an emphasis on Burma. CDCE program already produced over 300 alumni inside Myanmar, which maintains an active network to promote civil society development throughout the country.
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