NEAT “Toward Enhancing Food Security in the East Asia” WGCurriculum Vitae of the Participants< CAMBODIA >Mr. MAK MONY is Director of the Department of Planning and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture,Forestry, and Fisheries, Graduated from CANTHO University, Vietnam in 1994. Received Master Decree
in Natural Resource Management from Royal University of Agriculture, Cambodia 2014. I have served
as official of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from:-1995-2002: served as technical staff of Department of Animal Health and Production, Ministry ofAgriculture, Forestry and Fisheries,-2002-2009: served as office chief, Department of Planning, Statistic, and International Cooperation,
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries,-2009-2014: served as Deputy Director, Department of Planning and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture,Forestry and Fisheries,-2014-Present: acted as Director, Department of Planning and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture,Forestry and Fisheries, and a focal point of Cambodia-AFSIS.

Mrs. NETH Thida Vichhuna is Deputy Director at Department of ASEAN Plus Three and East Asia
Summit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambodia. Masterof Arts (MA) in International Studies & Diplomacy, SOAS University of London, London, UnitedKingdom.
< CHINA >Mr. Yang Yong is Senior Research Fellow, Agricultural Information Institute, Chinese Academy ofAgriculutral Sciences. Graduated from Yang Zhou University in 1998. Received M.A. in Crop Sciencefrom Yang Zhou University in 2001. Received Ph.D. in Crop Science from Yan Zhou University in 2004.
He joined AII-CAAS in 2004 and became Senior Research Fellow in 2021. He has served as Director of
Ecological Agriculture Information Services Lab since 2015. He has been serving as the Focal Point ofP.R.China for AFSIS for a long time since 2005.
< INDONESIA >Dr.Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad is an Associate Professor at the Department of InternationalRelations, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia. He also serves as the Executive
Secretary of the University’s ASEAN Study Center. Shofwan graduated from the Department ofInternational Relations, Universitas Indonesia, and his Masters’ and Doctoral Degrees are obtained fromthe Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University. His research interests are issues
on the entanglements between multiple scales of governance: global, regional, national, and local.
Shofwan looks at how local and national political economic dynamics continuously and mutuallyinteract with the evolution in global and regional orders. His works have appeared in various academic
1and popular platforms, including Asia Europe Journal, Asian Perspective, Contemporary Southeast Asia,
Forest Policy and Economics, Asian Politics & Policy, Indonesia, Global China Pulse, Good Governance
Africa, Global, Nikkei Asia, The Jakarta Post, and Kompas. Apart from academic works, he alsofrequently assists policy makers to design better policies, especially on foreign policy and regional
cooperation issues. Shofwan also hosts a popular podcast for Indonesian youth on Indonesian
perspectives on international relations, Podcast Bebas Aktif and co-founds Kontekstual Media.
< JAPAN >Mr. Hiroaki KOBAYASHI is professor emeritus of the Faculty of Horticulture, Chiba University.
Graduated, and received M. A. and Ph.D. from Hokkaido University in 1980, 1982 and 1994,respectively. He served as a researcher and senior researcher in Policy Research Institute ofAgriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (PRIMAFF) during 1982-1997, and in Japan Research Center
for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS) during 1997-2000. During from November 1993 to October 1994,
served as an administrator in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
He moved to Chiba University as professor after serving as associate professor and professor in Wako
University during 2000-2011, and retired in March 2023.

Dr. Katsuhiro SAITO is Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University ofTokyo. He graduated Doctor course in Graduate school of agricultural sciences University of Tokyo.
He saved as Visiting researcher, Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, University ofMissouri at Columbia and Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics University of Colorado atBoulder.

Dr. SAKUYAMA Takumi is a professor of agricultural trade policy in the School of Agriculture atMeiji University. Prior to his transfer to Meiji in 2013, he worked for the Japanese Ministry ofAgriculture, Forestry and Fisheries for 25 years as a trade negotiator (WTO, FTA and TPP), adiplomat (Japanese Delegation to the OECD in Paris), and an economist (Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations in Rome). He also served as a visiting fellow at the University ofCalifornia, Davis. He earned a M.Sc. in agricultural economics with distinction from University ofLondon, a M.A. in development economics from University of Sussex, and a Ph.D. in international
economics from Aoyama Gakuin University.

Mr. FUKUDA Ryuichi is associate professor, the Faculty of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University. He
graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture of Utsunomiya University in 1996. He received his Ph.D.
in Agriculture from the Graduate School of Agriculture, Tohoku University in 2009. He became aresearcher at the Policy Research Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in1997. He mainly engage in the study of agricultural economics in PRIMAFF and Utsunomiya
University.

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Mr. KIKUCHI Yona is Director and Senior Research Fellow, JFIR. Graduated from Faculty ofInternational Studies at Meiji Gakuin University in 2002. Received M.A. from InternationalCooperation Research Course (ICRC) of Kyorin University in 2004. Completed Ph.D program
without a Ph.D. degree, in ICRC of Kyorin University in 2007. He served as an Special Analyst of theMinistry of Foreign Affairs and as a Researcher at Research Institute of Economy, Trade andIndustry (RIETI). Joined JFIR in 2008 and became Senior Research Fellow in 2012. He has served asDirector since 2018. Concurrently serving as Executive Vice President of the Council on East AsianCommunity (CEAC).
< Korea>Dr. Do-Chan Bae is a visiting scholar in Seoul National University. He majored in Crop-science andinternational trade at Konkuk University and received M.S and Ph.D in Seoul National University. He
served as an agricultural specialist in KOICA (Korea International Cooperation Agency) for 7 years inMyanmar. He has served as research fellow in Seoul National University Asia Center (SNUAC) since2020. Concurrently serving as a lecturer of Dept. of smart-farm science in Kyung Hee University inKorea.
< LAOS >Ms. Phonethavy Thammasack is a Research Fellow from the Institute of Foreign Affairs (IFA). She has
worked at the IFA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) since 2012. She obtained a Master's inInternational Relations at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. She has become a researcher
in the Laos-China Joint Research Center under the IFA since 2021 and her research expertise is Southeast
Asia and South Asia studies.
< MALAYSIA >Dr, Alizan Mahadi is a Senior Director of Research at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies(ISIS) Malaysia. He is a frequent commentator of current affairs, and his thoughts and analysis is sharedand covered in various media and platforms including print, electronic, online and through conferencesand events. Previously, he served as the Special Officer to the Science Advisor to the Prime Minister ofMalaysia and the Chair of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Services (IPBES). Alizan has led and participated in various significant policy research projects related tosustainable development and governance. This includes being the project director for reviewing anddrafting the 2nd National Policy on Climate Change, and author for the Voluntary National Report(VNR), the Sustainable Development Goals report for Malaysia. He was also the founding and leadresearcher for the All-Party Parliamentary Group Malaysia on the Sustainable Development Goals(APPGM-SDG), where he led a network of experts to undertake micro studies on SDGs in ten
parliamentary constituencies. Alizan has also played a key role in network building including being afounding member of the CSO-SDG Alliance, executive secretary for the Society for the Promotion of3

SDGs and was the founding principle officer of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
Malaysia Chapter. He has a MSc in Sustainable Development from University of Uppsala, Sweden and iscurrently completing his PhD at the School of Media and Governance at Keio University.
< MYANMAR >Dr. Naing Swe Oo is the founder and executive director of the ThayNinGa Institute for Strategic Studies(TISS), a defence think tank established in 2015. He is a graduate of Defence Services Medical Academy,Myanmar. He secured Diploma in Political Science from Yangon University, Fellowship in Hepatology(Moscow) from Moscow State University (MSU), Diploma in Medical Genetics from Moscow StateUniversity (MSU) and Certificate in Diving Medicine (Malaysia). He holds an MBA from Aldersgate
College, Philippines. He also hold Ph.D. in Political Science. He previously taught at the Defence
Services Medical Academy (D.S.M.A), Myanmar as an assistant lecturer and also served as a medicalofficer in the Myanmar Army Medical Corps. He is also the publisher and the Editor – in – Chief ofThayninga Weapons and International Warfare Magazine, the only magazine focuses on defence
strategies and military technologies in Myanmar. He is also a senior advisor and resource person ondefence and security affairs in Myanmar Institute of Strategic and International Studies (MISIS) under
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Myanmar.
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Ms. Eylla Laire M. Gutierrez is a Development Consultant and the Research Manager at the Asian
Institute of Management's Dr. Andrew L. Tan Center for Tourism. She also served as the Gender andSustainable Tourism Consultant of the Philippine Center for Environmental Protection and Sustainable
Development, Inc. (PCEPSDI), Senior Consultant at Warwick & Rogers, and the Sustainable Tourism
Specialist of the Masungi Georeserve Foundation Inc. She has been engaged in several commissioned
research projects in partnership with the University of Auckland, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, theDepartment of Tourism, and the Philippine APEC Study Center Network. She has completed her MA inDevelopment Policy (under KAS scholarship) and BA International Studies major in European Studies(Magna Cum Laude) at De La Salle University, Philippines. She is currently taking up a doctor ofphilosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Asia Pacific Studies at the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan. Her
research interests include sustainability, community development, gender studies, and tourismmanagement.
< SINGAPORE >Dr. Sarah Y. Tong graduated from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, with a Bachelor
in Systems Engineering and a Master in Management, and worked at the Development Research Centerof China’s State Council for several years. She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the University ofCalifornia at San Diego. She was Assistant Professor of the Department of Economics and Research
Fellow of East Asian Institute, both at the National University of Singapore. Currently, she is SeniorResearch Fellow of NUS’ East Asian Institute and coordinator for economics. Her research interests4

concentrate on the development and transformation of Chinese Economy, including development intrade and foreign investment, development of regions, financial sector reforms, the reforms ofstate-owned enterprises, industrial policies and restructuring.
< VIETNAM >Dr. Vũ Lê Thái Hoàng is the Director General of the Institute for Foreign Policy and Strategic Studies,and Dean of the Faculty of International Politics and Diplomacy at the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam.
Dr. Vu held several roles at the Viet Nam Ministry of Foreign Affairs; including the Deputy Director
General of the Policy Planning Department. From 2014-2018, he was Minister Counselor and Chief
Political Officer at the Viet Nam Embassy to the United States. He was named an Eisenhower Fellow in2014 and participated in the American Jewish Committee's seminar for US-based diplomats in Israel in2016. Dr. Vu also served as the Deputy Director General at the National Secretariat for ASEAN 2020(ASEAN Department) in 2018. He holds a doctorate in Asian Studies from the University of Leeds in theUnited Kingdom. He received a Master of Science of Strategic Studies from the Rajaratnam School ofInternational Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

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