Spring Revolution impact on environmental resilience

This seminar is an online event via Zoom

Date: March 31, 2025 (Monday)

Time: 06:00 – 07:00 PM (Melbourne Time)/01:30-02:30 PM (Myanmar/Yangon Time)

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Meeting ID: 854 7557 5568

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Matthew Baird has over 30 years of experience in environmental and planning law in  Australia and Asia. He is the Director of the Asian Research Institute for Environmental Law. Since 2014 he has been an advisor on Environmental Impact Assessments and environmental law to the    Myanmar Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC). He was an advisor and Member of the Permanent Secretariat of the Technical Working Group for Cambodian Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MONRE) from 2015-2018 for the drafting of the Environmental Code of Cambodia. He has held senior positions on environmental law in     Australia and with regional bodies like the Mekong Regional Network.

Matthew has been working on these issues in Myanmar since 2012. He has a most impressive CV in these issues and in 2016 was appointed as Visiting Scholar of the Myanmar Environmental Governance Program of Vermont Law School. In January 2020, he was appointed an Honorary Research Fellow of the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business.

Nyein Chan is currently a Junior Associate Professor at Kyoto University of Advanced Science, Kyoto, Japan. He earned his bachelor’s degree in forestry from the University of Forestry in Myanmar, followed by a master’s and Ph.D. in Area Studies from the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies at Kyoto University. He previously served as a range officer at the Forest Department in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, and held academic positions as a demonstrator, assistant  lecturer, and lecturer at the University of Forestry and Environmental Science in Yezin, Myanmar. He also worked as a national consultant for WWF-Myanmar and Save the Children in Yangon, Myanmar, before returning to academia in Japan.

Dr. Chan has numerous publications in high-impact international peer-reviewed journals and has led multiple research projects. His research interests include forest biomass/carbon, ethnic land use, socio-economic studies, forest management, resource federalism, biodiversity conservation, gender, and environmental rights.

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