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Dr. Mi Mi Gyi, Professor and Head of the International Relations Department at Mandalay University, received her PhD degree from Mandalay University in 2006. Her dissertation research was dedicated to Myanmar politics in 19621988 and the rise and fall of Burma Socialist Program Party (BSPP) government. She has 20 years of university teaching
experience and has been the Head of Department since 2003. Her department is one of the two in the country charged with the development of the Political Science specializations. As part of this work, she is starting research on the processes of democratization in Myanmar and problems of new democracies. Her particular interest is drawn to the issues of national reconciliation, prospects of constitutional amendments and the ongoing reform of higher education. Email: gyim@ceu.hu
Dr. Moe Ma Ma is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Yangon. She
completed her undergraduate, Masters and PhD degrees at the Mandalay University, where she also defended doctoral research on Myanmar’s economic response to globalization in the field of agriculture. She has been teaching since 1995. In 2005 she was a fellow at the Asia
Research Center at the National University of Singapore. Her current research focuses on the effects of globalization on Myanmar culture and role of ASEAN in the region (especially in disaster management). She is part of the core team at the University of Yangon engaged in the development of the Political Studies specialization, a new field for Myanmar, and works on developing the courses on comparative politics of South East Asia and international organizations. Email: mam@ceu.hu
Dr. Mya Mya Khin is a Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Yangon. She has twentytwo years of experience in Anthropological teaching and research.
She completed her BA (Honors), and MA Degree in Anthropology at the University of Yangon and a PhD Degree in Cultural Anthropology at Kobe University in Japan. Her current field of research is Religious Anthropology, with focus on the Myanmar tradition of spirit mediation. As an academic expert, she contributes to the Myanmar Intangible Cultural Heritage program in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and to the joint project on Local Capacity for Inclusive Development in Myanmar, with the university partners in the Republic of Korea, and Japan. As one of the outcomes of the project, a “MyanmarKorea Local Knowledge Center” will be
established at the University of Yangon. Email: khinm@ceu.hu
Dr. Nyo Nyo is a Professor of Human Geography at Mandalay University, where she has been teaching for over 15 years. After obtaining her PhD in Geography from Bangalore University (India) in 2003, she has been a Ph.D. adviser to 15 candidates for a PhD degree at her home university. In research, she is interested in the issues of human development and women,
especially focusing on the role of professional careers in lives of women and their families. She continues to work on the issues of climate change and its multiple effects on Myanmar’s development and presented on this subjects at several international events, including at
National Environmental Institute, Singapore (2008), United Nations Conference on “Sustainable Environment” at Tonji University in Shanghai, PRC (2012) and the International Conference on
“Urban Issues and Challenges” at Bangalore University (2013). Email: nyon@ceu.hu
Dr. San Tun is a Professor and Head of Department of Philosophy at Dagon University in Yangon – the largest undergraduate university in Myanmar. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Economics and at the State University of Buddhist Literature and Teaching. His undergraduate and graduate training is from the University of Yangon, culminating in a PhD degree which he received in 2003. As a PhD candidate, he received Japan Foundation Fellowship award to conduct research at Kyoto University in 2002. He received the Best
Research Paper in Philosophy awards from the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005, 2010 and 2012) and published three books of Philosophical Essays in Myanmar language. His current research is concerned with the psychological and ethical understanding of Mind and Body and he seeks to compare the approaches to these concepts developed in the Western and Buddhist philosophies. Email: tuns@ceu.hu
Dr. Thanda Soe, Professor at the English Department, Mandalay University, has been involved in English language teaching for over 25 years, working as a teacher, teacher trainer and supervisor, in a range of ELT contexts in Myanmar. She earned her doctorate in the area of applied linguistics from University of Yangon in 2007 and a master’s degree (MA, Linguistics and Literature) from Mandalay University in 1990. Her teaching and research activities at Mandalay University focus on applied linguistics, with particular attention to stylistics and
discourse analysis. The area of research she currently focuses on is language teacher cognition
the study of what language teachers know, believe, think and do. Email: soet@ceu.hu
Dr. Tun Shwe is a lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, Mandalay University. Born in a small village of Kyaukbadaung in upper Myanmar, he received his BA from Mandalay University and a Masters' degree from Yangon University in 1997. He then returned to teach and study at Mandalay University, where he completed his doctoral degree in 2008. He has been teaching at the Department of Philosophy at Mandalay University since 1995. He is also writing on
philosophy, Theravada Buddhist thought and culture in local journals and magazines. His first book was published in 2012. His current research subject is the value of life in ancient Greek philosophy from the standpoint of Myanmar Buddhist thought. Email: shwet@ceu.hu
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Dr. Tin Htay Ei is a Professor and Head of the Law Department, University of Mandalay, Myanmar. She received an LL.B. in 1985, an LL.M. in 1993, and a PhD in 2004 from University of Yangon. She achieved Diploma in Japanese in 1993 from the Institute of Foreign Languages (now Yangon University of Foreign Languages). She lectures for the LL.B., LL.M. and PhD
programs, Diploma Course in Business Law, Diploma in International Law, Diploma in Tourism and Master of Business Administration at Mandalay University and Diploma in Law at Defence Services Administration School, Pyin Oo Lwin. Her main fields of interest include Environmental Law, International Human Rights Law, Civil Law and Commercial Law. Her current research focuses on Industrial Development and Human Rights in Myanmar. Dr. Tin Htay Ei is hosted by the CEU Department of Legal Studies.
Dr. Hnin Hnin Saw Hla Maung is a lecturer at Law Department, University of Yangon, Myanmar.
She holds law degrees from University of Yangon (LL.B. and LL.M. in International Law), Nagoya University Law School, Japan (LL.M.) and University of Yangon (PhD in Maritime Law).
She presently teaches at several programs at different institutions in Myanmar: master’s program of law, diploma in international law and master’s in business law at the UY Law Department; diploma in law at Defence Services Administration School, Pyin Oo Lwin; and diploma in tourism and management at National Management College, Yangon. Her main fields of interest are refugee law, international human rights and humanitarian law, and maritime law.
Her current research focuses on Refugees in Myanmar Definition, Protection of Rights and Legislation. Dr. Hnin Hnin Saw Hla Maung is hosted by the CEU Department of Legal Studies.
Dr. Myo Thandar Kyaw is an assistant lecturer at the Department of Law, University of Mandalay. She received her LL.B. Degree in 2004 from Dagon University, an LLM degree in 2006 and a PhD in 2011 specializing in Company Law from the University of Yangon. She teaches in LL.B. and LL.M. courses at the Law Department, University of Mandalay. Her main fields of interest and research are Criminal Law, Business Law, Labour Law and International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Her current research lies in the field of Corporate Crime in Myanmar: Legal Framework and its Implementation. Dr. Myo Thandar Kyaw is hosted by the CEU Department of Legal Studies.
Dr. Khin Ma Ma Myo is a lecturer at the Department of International Relations, University of Yangon, Myanmar. Her teaching career started at the University of Yangon in 1997. After the new Democratic Government took office in May 2011, she served as Assistant Director at the President’s Office in Naypyidaw. She rejoined the University of Yangon in 2013. She received an MA in International Development from International University of Japan (IUJ) in 2005 and a PhD in International Relations from the University of Yangon in 2006. She currently teaches courses in Myanmar foreign relations, political institution, elements of international relations and international and regional institutions. Her special interests include bilateral relations of
Myanmar, especially MyanmarJapanese relations, with focus on development aid. She also teaches at the National Defence College of Ministry of Defence and Institute of Development of Public Administration, Ministry of Home affairs, and her current research interests cover peace process and conflict resolution, public administration, security and political institutions. She received awards and fellowships, including Visiting Research Fellowship from the Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo and two best research awards from the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science. Her articles cover topics of MyanmarJapan relations. She contributed to the International Symposium on Myanmar 2014: Reintegration into International
Community held at Yunnan University, China in July 2014 and is currently working on an article
"Myanmar Reforms and Opening of New Chapter with Japan". Dr. Khin Ma Ma Myo is hosted by the CEU Department of International Relations and European Studies and the CEU Department of Public Policy.
Dr. Than Pale is a professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Yangon,
Myanmar, where she started working as a tutor in 1993. She received a B.A in 1992, an M.A. in 1996 and a PhD in 2012 in anthropology from the University of Yangon. She completed her thesis on Gender Allocation of Labour among the Akha Ethnic Group, Living in Kengtung Township, Eastern Shan State. She has led departmental research projects on socioeconomic life of different ethnic groups (Kokant, Wa, Akha, Naga, Salon, etc.) in Myanmar since 1997. In 201213 she conducted International joint research with partners from Hanyang University in Korea for local capacity development and inclusive development in Myanmar. Her teaching specializations are cultural social anthropology. She published three books on social organization of Wa, Naga and Salon ethnic groups in Myanmar based on the research
conducted at her department. She is currently focusing on the analysis of development projects in rural Myanmar. Dr. Than Pale is hosted by the CEU Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology.
Dr. Thidar Aung is an Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations,
University of Yangon, Myanmar. She received her BA (Hons) degree in International Relations in 1994, an MA in 1998 and a PhD in 2005. She completed her PhD dissertation about the UN economic activities in Myanmar in 19881998. She accomplished a Diploma in Tourism Study and Management in 2005, also from the University of Yangon. At the University of Yangon she teaches Diplomacy in Diploma in International Relations program; and UN and Myanmar in the PhD preliminary course. Her research interests are the UN and global issues in the 21st century. Her first research paper focused on the role of UNEP in environmental issues and climate change and was published by the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science in 2010.
MAAS has also published her paper on global food security in the 21st century (2011) and about global water scarcity in the 21st century (2012). Dr. Thidar Aung is hosted by the CEU Department of International Relations and European Studies.
Dr. Thi Thi Soe San is a lecturer in International Relations at Mandalay University, Myanmar.
She received a Bachelor’s Degree from the Mandalay University in 1995 and in 1998 was appointed a tutor at the International Relations Department at Mandalay. In 2000 she submitted her Master Thesis on The Role of Bureaucracy in Myanmar Politics (19231961) and received a Master’s of Research degree in 2001 for her thesis on Bribery and Corruption in Bureaucracy (19231961). Her PhD, accomplished in 2007, analysed Civil Service Reforms in Myanmar (19231987). Dr. Thi Thi Soe San is hosted by the CEU Department of Internaional Relations and European Studies and by the CEU Department of Public Policy.
Dr. Nilar Kyu is a Professor and Head of the Psychology Department at the University of Yangon in Myanmar. She received her BA (Honors), and an MA from Mandalay University. Her
teaching career started at the Mandalay University in 1995. In 2000, she was awarded a Japanese Government Scholarship to pursue her doctoral studies at Nagoya University, where in 2004 she received her PhD in Psychology from Graduate School of Education and Human Development. Her dissertation research was on the subject of Violence Against Women in Myanmar. She has more than 19 years’ experience in teaching at undergraduate and
postgraduate programs at Mandalay University and Yangon University. Her research interests cover domestic violence, sexual harassment in the workplace, career success, workfamily conflict, maternal emotion socialization and mental health of young people. Dr. Nilar Kyu has published extensively in both national and international journals. She has supervised and is currently supervising postgraduate students in applied psychology. Currently, she is starting a research project on the premises of proenvironmental behavior among the urban population in Myanmar, with the aim of providing important implications for managing environmental
challenges in Myanmar and developing useful approaches for similar studies in other areas. Dr.
Nilar Kyu is hosted by the CEU Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology.
Dr. Khin San Hlaing is a Professor and Head of Psychology Department at Mandalay University, Myanmar. She received her B.A. (Honors) and M.A. degrees from Mandalay University. She was awarded a PhD degree in 2006 by the University of Yangon. She has been a university teacher since 1991. At present, she teaches at the B.A program, PhD program and Diploma in Applied Psychology program offered at Psychology Department at Mandalay University. The courses she teaches are An Introduction to Psychology for B.A program, Cognitive and Affective Bases of Behavior for PhD program and Clinical and Counseling Psychology for Diploma in Applied Psychology. She also delivers a course to the Master Students who specialize in Psychiatry at the University of Medicine Mandalay. She is conducting a research project Construction of the Myanmar Version of the StanfordBinet Intelligence Scale for Early
Childhood now. Her current research focuses on Comparative Rural and Urban Family Patterns (Mandalay Division). Dr. Khin San Hlaing is hosted by the CEU Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology.
Dr. Myint Myint Htay is a professor at the Department of International Relations, University of Mandalay. She received her B.A. (Honors) in International Relations in 1993 and an M.A.
degree in 1997, her M.A. thesis analyzed Myanmar Politics (19581962). Her PhD degree was conferred in 2006, following a successful defense of the dissertation on Shan State
Administration (19371988). Her teaching carrier started at the University of Mandalay in 1995.
She currently teaches a diploma course on Diplomacy, a PhD preliminary course on Regional Developments in Asia, and an undergraduate course on Governments and Politics of Southeast Asia. Her research interests include political developments in Myanmar post 2011 focused on national reconciliations and constitutional reform. She is currently working on a research project on political parties in Myanmar. Her recent paper discussing the role of Sawbwas (Shan
Chieftains) in the politics of the Shan State was published in the Information Journal of Defense Services Academy in 2012. Dr. Myint Myint Htay is hosted by the CEU Department of Political Science and CEU Department of International Relations and European Studies.
Dr. Aye Aye Maw is a lecturer of International Relations Department, University of Yangon. She received her B.A. (Honors) degree in International Relations in 1994, M.A in 2000 and PhD in 2007. She completed her PhD dissertation on MyanmarChina Relations (Agreements since 1988). At the University of Yangon, she teaches Diplomacy and Governments of Southeast Asia in Diploma in International Relations Program and Introduction to International Relations I, and II to the undergraduate class. She also teaches Myanmar Foreign Relations in the PhD
preliminary course. Her first research paper focused on the tourism cooperation between
Myanmar and China and was published by the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science in 2011.
Her current research interests cover ASEAN (focus on development), bilateral relations of Myanmar, human security, and political institutions. She is currently working on a number of articles on the subjects ranging from the relations between Japan and ASEAN new member countries, to Myanmar’s geostrategic interest for China, to environmental protection and sustainable development ion the ASEAN region. Dr. Aye Aye Maw is hosted by the CEU Department of International Relations and European Studies.
Dr. Aye Aye Myat is an assistant lecturer at the Department of International Relations, University of Mandalay. Her teaching career started at Monywa University, where her first appointment was in 2005 before a transfer to the University of Mandalay in 2008. She received her first degree, BA (Honors) in International Relations at Yadanabon University in 2004, an MA from Monywa University in 2007 and a PhD from the University of Mandalay in 2013. She completed her PhD dissertation focusing on Myanmar’s International Cooperation in Oil and Gas Sector.
She represented Myanmar as a delegate in the ASEAN+3 Youth Leaders’ Symposium held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in October 2012. She presently teaches a course on Political
Institutions. Her special interest is energy politics, especially in the nexus of the resource richness, poor governance and development failure. Her current research explores Myanmar and Its Resource Curse. Dr. Aye Aye Myat is hosted by the CEU Department of International Relations and European Studies and by the School of Public Policy.
Dr. Simon Yin is a professor at Hefei University in China, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate students and does research and consultancy independently and in cooperation with other scholars and practitioners. He received a Bachelor's Fegree from the Peking University in China, Master degree from Harvard University in the USA, and PhD from the University of Tuebingen in Germany. He has been a visiting research fellow at various
universities worldwide and an advisor to several organizations. His major academic interests are religious freedom, inequality and conflicts, and development in a broad sense. His current research subject is religion and law in a comparative perspective. Dr. Simon Yin is hosted by the CEU Department of Legal Studies.
Dr. Suraju Olusegun Ajadi is an Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at Obafemi Awolowo University, IleIfe, Nigeria. He received his B. Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University and he has been teaching and conducting research there since 1996. His Ph.D. research dissertation which he defended in 2005 was based on the solutions of reduced kinetics mechanism arising from combustion theory. He served as the Acting Head of
the Department between 2011 and 2014. He has published substantially in the areas of Applicable mathematics Fluid mechanics and Combustion theory. He has also served as Reviewer to several reputable journals. He has supervised and is currently supervising postgraduate students in applied mathematics. In this current dispensation, he is starting research on the Mathematical Modeling of Pipeline Leak Detection and other mathematical applications. This is with the aim of providing accurate information on Leak Prevention and Detection in some area of applications. Dr. Suraju Olusegun Ajadi is hosted by the CEU Department of Mathematics and its Application.
Dr. Okechukwu Marcellus Ikeanyibe, (MSC/Ph.D., MPA; University of Nigeria; B. Phil. Pontifical Urban University Rome) is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public
Administration and Local Government, in Nigeria’s indigenous premier University, University of Nigeria. Okey teaches Advanced Social Policy Administration, Comparative Local Government and Bureaucracy and Policy Process at the graduate level and Public Personnel Administration, Comparative Public Administration, Bureaucracy and Policy Process, Ethics and Public
Administration at the undergraduate level. His research interests cover policy and development studies, social welfare administration, local government, comparative public administration, and political party and election management. Okey has published extensively in both national (Nigeria) and international journals and books. His current books are Principles and Practice of Personnel Administration: A Nigerian Perspective published by Lambert Academic Publishing Germany; Public Policy in Nigeria: Perspectives on Social Policy and Administration, and, An Anthology of Theories for Social Research, published in Nigeria. He is a member of many professional bodies and is engaged in consultancy services for the inservice training of
government employees especially those of the local governments in Nigeria. Dr. Okey Marcellus Ikeanyibe is hosted by the CEU's School of Public Policy.
Dr. Patricia Zalamea is currently an Associate Professor at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. After completing an undergraduate degree in art history at John Cabot University, Rome, Italy, she received a PhD from Rutgers University, New Jersey, with a dissertation on French Renaissance art. Since returning to Colombia, she has explored notions of artistic reception and humanist culture in Colonial Latin America. Her current research involves the circulation and adaptation of prints in the context of a Global Renaissance.
Professor Zalamea has become increasingly involved in projects concerned with Colonial patrimony, and recently edited a book about the artistic patrimony of Cundinamarca, one of Colombia's regions with a rich legacy of material culture. She is also one of the cofounders of Colombia's first undergraduate degree in art history, as well as a collaborator in a Gettyfunded project titled Unfolding Art History in Latin America, with the joint participation of different Latin American universities. Dr. Patricia Zalamea is hosted by the CEU Department of History. Email:
pzalamea@uniandes.edu.co, Web:
http://arte.uniandes.edu.co/teacher/patriciazalameafajardo/
Dr. Fadwa AlLabadi is a professor of Gender and Women's Studies at alQuds University. She earned her Masters and PhD degrees in the area of Women's Studies at the University of Kent
at Canterbury. She also had a post doctoral research at (SOAS), in the area of “Gender and Islamic Law". In 2004 she was a visiting researcher at MCRI project, "Diaspora, Islam and Gender” at York University in Canada, also in 2006 she was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the University of MichiganDearborn. She has been teaching since 1998, and has been the Director of INSAN Center for Gender Studies at alQuds University since 2003 until 2010; also she was the head of Development Studies Department until 2012. Her teaching and research activities at alQuds University focus on Palestinian women's rights, with particular attention to political and legal rights. Most recent publishing paper (2013) is "Guardianship in Marriage: Gender and Islamic Law in Palestine". Her current research focuses on the impact of the
separation/annexation wall on the economic status of Palestinian women in east Jerusalem.
Email: labadi.fadwa@gmail.com. Dr. Fadwa AlLabadi is hosted by the CEU Department of Gender Studies.
Dr. Ali Massoud is an associate professor and the head of Economics Department at Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt. In 1999 he was awarded a Ph.D. scholarship from USAID to pursue his graduate studies at Claremont Graduate University. In 2003, he got his Ph.D. in Economics from School of Economics and Political Science, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, USA. In 2004 he was awarded a scholarship to join the Institute of Sustainable Development during the summer of 2004 in Spain. In 2013 he was awarded a postdoctoral scholarship from the Ministry of Higher Education to conduct some studies in order to help the Egyptian
government to implement its monetary and fiscal policies. From January 2014 to June 2014, he joined the Claremont Institute for Economic Policy Studies, Claremont Graduate University, USA to conduct some studies that deals with monetary policy and exchange rate policy in Egypt. His area of expertise is international money and finance. His researches covers the subjects of capital flows and their impacts on local economies, exchange rate policy, monetary policy, and fiscal policy. Between 2009 and 2013, he worked as an economic advisor for Sohag governor.
He works as economic advisor in many projects that financed by UNDP, UNHAPITAT, and USAID. He developed and supervised the implementations of many strategic plans for developing the local economies of many Egyptian regions. Dr. Ali Massoud is hosted by the CEU Department of Economics.
Dr. Liu Bo is an Associate Research Fellow and Deputy Director of Institute of International Affairs Studies, Beijing Academy of Social Science. He received PhD degree from the Department of International Relations of Renmin University in 2009. As a PhD candidate, he received Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship to conduct research at Melbourne University in 2008. He published more than 30 papers in national authority periodicals, won a National Social Science Fund Projects, which is the most important and influential social science project in China. His first book is Humanitarian Intervention in International Society in 2011. His first translated book is Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry in 2012. The area of research he currently focuses on is on promoting human rights education in China. Dr. Liu Bo will be hosted by CEU Department of International Relations and European Studies.
Dr. Elsayed Mohamed is a lecturer at the Department of Marketing, Tanta University, Egypt. He completed his BA (Honors), and MA Degree in Marketing at Tanta University, Egypt and a PhD Degree in Marketing at Hull University, UK in 2011. His dissertation research was dedicated to the impact of social capital on customer relationship management performance in the Egyptian financial sector. He has been teaching since 1996. He has more than 15 years’ experience in teaching to U/G and P/G Programs at Tanta University, Egypt as a lecturer of marketing. In research, he is interested in Social capital, intellectual capital, social networks, relationship marketing (RM), customer relationship management (CRM), consumer behaviour and services marketing. He received the Best Paper Award Prize at the international Conference on service management 2014. Dr. Elsayed Mohamed is hosted by the CEU Business School.
Dr. Fardin Alikhah received his Ph.D. (2009) in political sociology from the University of Allameh Tabatabai in Tehran. His teaching and research interests include: 1 urban studies,
2transnational TVs and new media, 3sociology of music. As a scholar and independent consultant, Social impact assessment of urban projects is an issue that he have been followed in the field of urban studies and urban policy. Fardin has international work experience in this area his latest project was Shatoot Storage Dam in Afghanistan. In the field of media studies, he has been researching satellite TVs from a communication and sociological point of view for nearly 10 years and in that time he has written several research reports. In addition to the satellite TVs, he is interested in studying new media and currently conducting research on new media. Fardin is now a faculty member of the University and a member of International
association of Media and Communication Researchers (IAMCR), International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) and International Association for the study of popular music (IASPM).
Dr. Fardin Alikhah is hosted by the CEU Center for Media, Data and Society.
Dr. Vladimir R. Gil Ramón is a faculty member at the Environmental Development Master’s Program and the Department of Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), and an Adjunct Senior Associate Research Scientist at the Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability at Columbia University (EICES). He received a Ph.D. in Ecological and Economic Anthropology from Yale University, as a Fulbright scholar, including environmental science coursework from the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and postdoctoral work at the Columbia University’s Earth Institute. His research focuses on socioenvironmental challenges, including mining impacts and adaptation to climate change, especially regarding vulnerable populations. Recently, he has lead different scientific international consortiums examining the impact of climate change to support informed public policies. These synergies have involved institutions such as Fulbright Nexus, NSF, IDB, World Bank, UNEP, UNALM, and Columbia University’s IRI and EICES. His collaborations as a scientific expert include the Journal of Environment & Development, Anthropológica, Apuntes, the IIE, The Bellagio Center, Fulbright, SEPIA, as well as Peru´s ministries of Environment and Economics. At CEU, he is hosted by the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy. His most recent publications, including coauthorships, include Mining Landing: Culture, Conflict, Negotiations and Lessons for Development (IEP), Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values and Governance
(Cambridge University Press), Low Carbon, High Growth: Latin American Responses to Climate
Change (World Bank), and journal articles in Climate and Development, Anthropological Quarterly, Visual Anthropology, and Bulletin of the World Health Organization. His forthcoming publications include a book on Andean mining conflicts at the University of Arizona Press, and an analysis of Andean ecology research at Oxford University Press.
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Dr. Grace Bosibori Nyamongo is Research Associate/Lecturer at the African Women's Studies Centre at the University of Nairobi. She was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue PhD studies and in 2009 received her PhD in Women's Studies from York University. In November December 2009 she was GEXCel Scholar at Linkoping University in Sweden. In 2009 2010 she was Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA. In 2011 2012 she was lecturer at Kenyatta University. She has and continues to supervise
several postgraduate students' research projects and theses. She has published various articles in the areas of gender, politics and African sexuality. Her research interests include women and work, violence against women and girls and other vulnerable groups, gender issues, and African sexuality. She has also worked as an independent consultant for the African Development Bank (AFBD) on Higher Education Science and Technology (HEST) – Gender and Labour market dynamics in Uganda. In the area of transformative advocacy she is actively engaged in the sensitization of rural people, and mentoring the youth on issues including poverty eradication strategies, HIV/AIDS, education, FGM and conflict resolution among others. Dr. Grace Bosibori Nyamongo is hosted by the CEU Department of Gender Studies.
Dr. Jose Pablo Prado Cordova is a tenured lecturer at Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala, where he teaches social sciences and rural development to first year students at the Faculty of Agronomy. His research interest is in political ecology as such an overarching approach to environmental problems gives him the chance to navigate between both social and biophysical sciences. He is also very interested in exploring the human condition and, above all, how people came to be what they are as citizens, nature appropriators, subjects and free thinkers. At this point of his career he decided to devote a significant amount of time to write down his ideas about these topics and delve into the particulars of environmental ethics in the process. Earlier he has spent a great deal of time as a volunteer with the YMCA of Guatemala.
Dr. Vo Van Dut is lecturer and researcher at the Department of International Business, the College of Economics, Can Tho University, Vietnam, where he obtained his bachelor degree.
Vo Van Dut has been awarded the PhD title in 2014 from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He received master degree (MSc) in International Economics and Business in 2007 and the master by research degree (Mphil) of International Business in 2009 at the same university. His PhD project focused on subsidiary decisionmaking autonomy in multinational enterprises. His research interests are in the field of international business, SMEs and cooperate governance. His current works have been published in peerreviewed journals like International Business Review, Asian Academy of Management Journal, Problems and Perspectives in Management. Vo Van Dut has also visited several times the Halle Institute for
Economic Research during his PhD project. His current interest stems from his ambition to understand how cultural distance affects MNE subsidiary's access to local complementary assets and how subsidiary's forward and backward linkages impact its innovation.
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Dr. Ernest Ngeh Tingum is a Cameroonian and holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Dar es Salaam. Professionally, he is an economist and researcher who has been working with various national and international organizations, to mention a few: University of Dschang
(Cameroon), National Polytechnic Cameroon, University of Dar es Salaam, The Open University of Tanzania and WageIndicator Foundation in Holland. As an Economist and Lead Specialist with WageIndicator Foundation based Amsterdam (since August 2011) he has been involved in a number of activities which include data collection in East and West African Countries,
research and analysis as well as a vast experience on the issues of collective bargaining in the African labor market. He has been a member of the “Tobacco Control Analysis and Intervention Evaluation in China and Tanzania” in the Department of Economics since 2013. He is board member of the national NGO Sustainable Holistic Initiatives Organization (SHIO) based in Morogoro, Tanzania. Currently he is a visiting research fellow at the School of Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary. His current research interest is on gender issues, job satisfaction and collective bargaining in the African labor market.
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Dr. Thwin Pa Pa is a Professor and Head of the Department of Law at Mandalay University in central Myanmar. She holds a Doctor of Law degree in Transnational law and Policy from Tohoku University (Japan, 2006). She has over 20 years of teaching experience and was appointed the Head of Department in 2014. Her teaching and main fields of interest cover Constitutional Law, Business Law, Labor Laws and Land Laws; she received further training and presented at academic events in India, Italy and, most recently, Sweden. The research area that Thwin Pa Pa currently focuses on is Constitutional Rights and Rule of Law in Myanmar, and she is a Fellow at the CEU Department of Legal Studies.
Dr. Myint Thu Myaing is a Professor at the Law Department, University of Yangon in Myanmar.
She received her first law degree in 1985, then an LLM in 1992 and a PhD in 2005 from the University of Yangon, as well as a Diploma in Management and Administration in 2000 from the Yangon Institute of Economics. In 2003, she was also awarded an LLM in Intellectual Property Law from WIPO and Turin University in Italy. Since 1986 she has been teaching at the
University of Yangon, East Yangon University and Mawlamyine University in Mon State in Southern Myanmar. She teaches fulltime LLB and LLM courses, Diploma Course in Business Law for public servants and professionals, and a PhD preliminary course at the University of Yangon. She also contributes to the Diploma in Law at Defense Services Administration School in Pyin Oo Lwin in central Myanmar. Her fields of expertise and research interest are Intellectual Property Law, International Environmental Law, International Human Rights Law and
Investment Laws. She has been supervising theses of Master's students and dissertation projects of PhD candidates. Her current research, bringing her as a Fellow to the CEU Legal Studies Department, focuses on settlement of intellectual property rights related laws and practices, in light of Myanmar's covenants with WTO, ASEAN and WIPO and is timely for the needs of legal reforms underway in Myanmar.
Dr. Thida Tun is Professor of International Relations at the University of Mandalay in Myanmar.
She received a BA in 1991, MA in 1997 and PhD in 2007, all from Mandalay University. Her PhD project focused on the Role of National Unity in the Constitutional Development of Myanmar (1947 1974). Since the start of the higher education reform in Myanmar, she has been working actively in the area of quality assurance, notably in the project focused on the study and application of the ASEAN University Network Quality Assurance model and its implementation in the ASEAN countries, and a current threeyear project on strengthening capacity of Myanmar universities towards establishing the quality assurance system for
improving the quality of higher education in the Greater Mekong Subregion countries supported by the Asian Development Bank. In 2013, with support of the Open Society Foundations, she represented Myanmar in the Summer Institute "Higher Education Leadership for Tomorrow" at the University of Hong Kong. Thida Tun is a member of Open Access Policy Working Group and Secretary of Internal Quality Assurance Committee at Mandalay University. She currently
teaches Introduction to International Relations at the BA program; PhD course in the foreign policy of Myanmar, as well as Postgraduate Diploma courses in International Relations, Political Science, Public Policy, Public Opinion and Public Administration. Her fields of research and PhD supervision are Foreign Policy Analysis, Comparative Constitutions and Public
Administration. At CEU she is working to enrich her current research on the subject of Administrative Reform in Myanmar.
Dr. Thin Thin Aye is a Professor at the Department of International Relations at Yadanabon University, a largest undergraduate university in Mandalay, Myanmar. She teaches International Relations, Political Thought, US Government and Politics, Diplomacy at the undergraduate program and new subjects of Democracy and Democratization for the Honors and Master's students. Her own Master's thesis focused on the legacy and impact of the Japanese occupation on the nationalist movements in Myanmar postWorld War II; her PhD research examined the collaboration between the government of Myanmar and the UN agencies in the immunization and prevention against child diseases in 19882004. Her publications on the subjects of awareness raising in Myanmar's response to major diseases and development of ICTs in Myanmar were published by the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Sciences. She presented on Human Resources Development in Myanmar (19882010) at the Asia Pacific Human Resources Conference in Beijing; more recently on the role of civil society in Myanmar's democratization at the International Conference on Burma/Myanmar in Transition in Chiang Mai, Thailand. She comes to CEU with a strong interest in the advancement of the civil society actors and nongovernmental organizations as Myanmar embraces democratic practices. She seeks to enhance her mastery of theories of civil society and research methods as a Fellow at the
Departments of Political Science and International Relations.
Dr. Lwin Lwin Mon is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Yangon (Myanmar). She holds a BA (Hons), an MA and a Doctorate in Anthropology, as well as MA and MRes degrees in Archeology. For 21 years she has been teaching and conducting research in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology, Ethnology, Medical Anthropology, Research Methods, Paleontology and Anthropology of Tourism. During this time, she produced twelve international publications, twenty publications in national journals, six research entries, and conducted over twenty special training projects. In 2013 she contributed to a project on
"Inclusive Local Community Development in Myanmar" initiated by the University of Yangon, Hanyang University and ReDI (Reshaping Development Institute), supported by the Korea International Cooperation Agency. As a fellow of the Asia Leadership Fellow Program (Japan Foundation and International House of Japan), in 2013 she lectured at Hosei University in Japan focusing on Myanmar ethnic conflicts and democracy from the point of view of political and social anthropology. During 20142015 she contributed to UNESCO Consultation Meetings and Workshops on Bagan and Innlay bids for the World Heritage site status. Lwin Lwin Mon has a special interest in the Budapest UNESCO World Heritage programs and learning more about its historical aesthetics. Her research at CEU focuses on the challenges emerging from the changes in lifestyles of migrants of Kachin ethnic groups living in Yangon.
Dr. Moe Moe Oo is a visiting research fellow in the Department of History. She comes from Mandalay University in Myanmar, where she has been a History faculty member, currently an Associate Professor, for seventeen years. She has advised seven PhD candidates in History. A graduate of Mandalay University, with the PhD from her alma mater, she also studied and conducted postdoctoral research at Korea University in Seoul. She has published widely on cultural history, social history and socioeconomic history. Her latest paper explores the socioeconomic patterns of Yintaw Township (17521885) and was recently presented at the International Conference on Myanmar Studies at Chiang Mai University in Thailand. Her current research interest is on marriage customs of crown cultivators in the 1819th century Burma and comparisons with the crown service groups in other monarchies of the same period. She plans to spend the three months of her visiting research fellowship at CEU developing a thorough grounding of regional historiography, theories and methods of writing, curriculum design and cultural history.
Dr. Thinn Thinn Latt comes from Dagon University – an institution of higher education that serves some 30,000 undergraduate students in the city of Yangon in Myanmar. She holds a BA (Hons) in International Relations awarded by the University of Mandalay in 1994 and an MA degree (1998). She was awarded a PhD by the University of Yangon in 2007 for her research on Myanmar's efforts in the area of environmental conservation. She has recently been appointed an Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations at Dagon University, and previously was a Lecturer at the Department of International Relations at the University of Yangon, where she taught courses on Diplomacy and Governments of Southeast Asia for Diploma students, Myanmar Foreign Relations after 1948 for distance education
students, and Introduction to International Relations for undergraduate Philosophy students. Her
areas of specialization are nontraditional security issues, development studies, diplomacy and foreign policy analysis. She holds a Diploma in International Studies from Chung Ang
UniversityKOICA Program at the University of Yangon and a certificate of Social and Demographic Research Methods Training from Australia National University. Her ongoing research focuses on political development in Myanmar and its impact on foreign relations; her research Fellowship at CEU's Department of International Relations will focus on the process of democratization in Myanmar and Its impact on peacemaking process.
Dr. Tin Tin Mar is an Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations,
University of Yangon, Myanmar. She holds a BA (Hons) in International Relations awarded by the University of Yangon in 1996, an MA degree (2000) and a Doctorate (2008). She was an International Scholar Exchange fellow funded by the Korean Foundation of Advanced Studies in 20062007. Her teaching career started at the University of Yangon in 1997. Currently, she teaches Myanmar Foreign Policy and Foreign Relations to Doctoral students, PostCold War International Relations for professional development Diploma students, Introduction to
International Relations for first year undergraduate political science students. She contributes with a course on Foreign Policy and Introduction to International Relations at the Institute of Development of Public Administration of the Myanmar Ministry of Home Affairs. Her latest research–based articles "The Sunshine Policy and the Process of Korean Reunification", "The Significance of UN Conferences on Climate Change", "The Spratly Islands Dispute" were published in the Journal of the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Sciences, she also presented a paper on Myanmar and International Community: the World Bank, IMF and the United Nations at the International Symposium on Myanmar 2014: Reintegrating into International Community, held at Yunnan University, China in July 2014. Her research focuses on the Korean peninsula and the relations between Myanmar and South Korea in particular. As a Fellow at the CEU Department of International Relations, she works on the subject of political reforms in Myanmar and reopening of bilateral relations with South Korea.
