Political Resistance in Myanmar: Coups, Protests, and the Rohingya Crisis
Channel: TuftsIGL
Date: 2022-02-11

Dr. Moe Thuzzar is an ISEAS Fellow & Lead Researcher (socio-cultural), at the ASEAN Studies Centre, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. She is also a key member of the Myanmar Studies Programme at ISEAS. Moe provides analyses (on ASEAN and on Myanmar) for Channel News Asia's news programs. She was also involved in advising Myanmar's ASEAN chairmanship in 2014. In addition to monitoring Myanmar’s reforms, Moe’s other research interests include urbanization, environment, disaster management and humanitarian assistance, ASEAN integration issues and ASEAN's dialogue relations.

Dr. Jacques P. Leider is a historian of Myanmar and has headed the research centres of the Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient in Yangon and Chiang Mai. He is currently the head of the EFEO office in Bangkok. A trained teacher with extensive professional experience, he had stints in diplomacy and consulting with UN organizations on contemporary conflict issues.