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With the support of Government of Korea Co-organised with: Korea Institute of Public Finance (KIPF) Vietnam Institute for Development Strategies (VIDS) Korea Development Institute (KDI) The 8th Meeting of the Asia Network on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises BIOGRAPHIES 16-17 November 2015 Hanoi, Viet Nam Sheraton Hanoi
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With the support of Government of Korea

Co-organised with: Korea Institute of Public Finance (KIPF)

Vietnam Institute for Development Strategies (VIDS) Korea Development Institute (KDI)

The 8th Meeting of the Asia Network on Corporate Governance

of State-Owned Enterprises

BIOGRAPHIES

16-17 November 2015

Hanoi, Viet Nam

Sheraton Hanoi

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Inaugural Session

Dang HUY DONG

Deputy Minister

Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), Viet Nam

HE. Mr. Dang Huy Dong has been assigned Deputy Minister of Ministry of Planning and

Investment, Vietnam for 6 years. As one of 6 Deputy Ministers, he is currently in charge of the

Enterprise Development Agency, Agency of Business Registration; Department of Cooperation;

and Informatics Center. His task is to manage and lead activities of the Ministry in areas involving

socio-economic information & forecasts, state owned enterprises restructuring, small and medium-

sized enterprises development; business registration; and information technology usage in

ministerial works. He also performs some other duties assigned by the Minister.

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Hyung-Soo PARK

President

Korea Institute of Public Finance (KIPF), Korea

Mr. Hyung-Soo PARK is currently the President of the Korea Institute of Public Finance (KIPF).

President Park, a leading expert in macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international

economics, joined KIPF in 2001 and held several management roles from the Head of the Center of

Fiscal Analysis to Director of the Research Planning and Coordination Group. During his time at

KIPF, President Park was appointed as the 14th Commissioner of the Statistics Korea, a central

government organization for statistics in 2013. Prior to joining KIPF, he worked at the International

Department and Research Department of the Bank of Korea. He also served as the Board Member

of the Korea Association of Public Finance from 2009 to 2013. In 2009, President Park received an

award from the Minister of Strategy and Finance. He holds a PhD in Economics from the

University of California, Los Angeles.

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Inaugural Session

Lars Erik FREDRIKSSON

Chair, OECD Working Party on State Ownership and Privatisation Practices

Investment Director, Division for SOE, Ministry of Enterprise and

Innovation, Sweden

Mr. Lars Erik Fredriksson is an Investment Director at the Division for State-Owned Enterprises at

the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation in Sweden since 2004. He specializes in corporate

governance of state owned enterprises (SOEs). He is also the Swedish delegate of the OECD

WPSOPP (Working Party for State Owned Enterprises and Privatization) since 2008, vice-chair

since 2014 and chair since 2015. Lars Erik has extensive experience from SOE ownership including

corporatisation, privatisation, starting new SOEs, setting up ownership policies, setting financial

targets, board recruitment and board work. He is currently a non-executive director in four SOEs

and chair of the board in one private company. He holds a B.Soc.Sc. degree from Uppsala

University.

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Inaugural Session

Bui TAT THANG

President, Vietnam Institute for Development and Strategies (VIDS)

Ministry of Planning and Investment, Viet Nam

Associate Professor, Dr. Bui Tat Thang is serving as President of Vietnam Institute for

Development Strategies (VIDS) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI). He received

his B.A in Economics from Hanoi University in 1980 and his Ph.D in Economics from the Institute

of Economics, Vietnam in 1993. He had been a visiting research fellow at Zentral Institute fur

Wirtschenshaften in Academie of Sciences, Germany and at the Institute of Economic Research,

Hitotsubashi University, Japan and a visiting professor at University of the Philippines. He had

worked as a Researcher at VIDS from 2004 and became President in 2012. He is also an author and

co-author of more than 30 books and 80 articles in economic review.

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Inaugural Session

Bong-Hwan CHO

Director General of Public Institutions Policy Bureau

Ministry of Strategy and Finance (MOSF), Korea

Mr. Bonghwan Cho, Director General of Public Institutions Policy Bureau at the Ministry of

Strategy and Finance (MOSF), is responsible for overall policy of public institutions. Cho has almost

28 years of distinguished public service record and experience in budgeting, and public private

partnership policy. Prior to his appointment as Director General for Public Institutions Innovation

in 2014, he held Deputy Director General for Public Institutions Innovation in 2013 and was

dispatched to the National Assembly's Special Committee on Budget and Accounts in 2012, after

having been in charge of public private partnership policy at the Economic Affairs Budget Bureau

in Budget Office of MOSF in 2008. He put in a leave of absence at the MOSF to work for the

OECD in 2000 after serving in the Ministry of Government Administration in 1987. Cho earned a

B.A. in French Language and Literature from Seoul University and a MPA (Master of Public

Administration) degree from Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea.

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Session 1

Selim YESILBAS

Director General

Undersecretariat of Treasury, Turkey

Mr. Selim Yesilbas is the Director General of State Owned Enterprises at Turkish Treasury. He

received his Bachelor’s degree in public finance from the Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara

University, Turkey, and his Masters of Science in Policy Economics degree from University of

Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA. Prior to re-joining the Turkish Treasury, he spent four years as

an Advisor to the Executive Director at the World Bank in USA. He worked especially on corporate

governance, investment and financing programs, financial monitoring and debt management of

SOE’s. He also carried out tasks such as conducting relations with credit rating agencies and

investors and issuing Eurobonds. Since February 2010, he is working as the Director General of

State-Owned Enterprises. He is also vice- chair and bureau member of the OECD Working Party

on State Ownership and Privatisation Practices.

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Session 1

Hans CHRISTIANSEN

Senior Economist

OECD

Mr. Hans Christiansen is a Senior Economist in the OECD Corporate Affairs Division. He joined

the Division after previous postings in the OECD Investment Division, Financial Affairs Division

and the Economics Directorate. Prior to joining OECD, he worked for the Bank for International

Settlements (BIS) in Switzerland. Mr. Christiansen’s currently acts as the secretary to the OECD

Working Party on State Ownership and Privatisation Practices, which is the custodian of the OECD

Guidelines on Corporate Governance of SOEs. His current assignments includes OECD’s ongoing

project on State-Owned Enterprises in the World Economy, responsibility for the OECD Network

on Corporate Governance of Asian SOEs, as well as involvement in other SOE-related activities

throughout the world. A Danish national, he holds a graduate degree in Political Economics from

the University of Copenhagen.

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Session 1

Madhukar GUPTA

Additional Secretary, Department of Public Enterprises

Ministry of Public Enterprises and Heavy Industries, India

Mr. Madhukar Gupta is an Electrical Engineer, MBA and a law graduate. He was selected as a

Mason Fellow by Harvard for a Master’s in Public Administration in 2006. The Government of

India sent him for a Master’s in Public Policy at Maxwell, Syracuse. Mr. Gupta has been awarded a

PhD in Development Economics in 2010. He focused on Public Policy in US and China working

with experts on economic growth, urban development, infrastructure, corporate finance and cluster

development at the Harvard, MIT and Fletcher School. He has won many national awards from

National Productivity Council and National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development. Indian

and international Universities have hosted him as a visiting faculty and scholar. He has presented

many professional papers taking him to more than forty countries. Mr. Gupta has worked in

Government of India, governments of Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu, as Team Leader in United

Nations Development Program, consultant to ADB and Sri Lankan government, non-profit sector,

cooperative sector, as Managing Director in State Road Transport Corporation and State

Cooperative Dairy Federation, as Principal Secretary Higher Education and Transport Departments

and also, as Vice Chancellor of University of Rajasthan and Rajasthan Agriculture University. Mr.

Gupta has spent thirteen years as a practitioner as Divisional Commissioner in four Divisions

(regions), District Magistrate in three districts and Sub Divisional Magistrate in two places. This

officer is presently Additional Secretary, Ministry of Public Enterprises and Heavy Industries. His

wife Kiran Soni Gupta has just been posted as Financial Advisor and Additional Secretary, Ministry

of sports and Youth Affairs. She is also an accomplished painter (www.kiransoniarts.com). They

have a daughter working for investment banking with Merrill Lynch, New York and a son studying

liberal arts at Swarthmore College, US.

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Session 1

Changyong CHOI

Director, Center for International Development

Korea Development Institute (KDI), Korea

Dr. Changyong Choi is Associate Professor at the Korea Development Institute (KDI) School of

Public Policy and Management, South Korea. He also serves as Director of Policy Consultation and

Evaluation at the Center for International Development of KDI. He is in charge of Knowledge

Sharing Program(KSP) and various international development projects for countries in Asia, CIS

and Europe. His research interests are governance reform, digital government, private sector and

market development, and democratization in developing and former communist countries. His

current work explores public-private partnership and the effectiveness of international development

cooperation programs. He earned his Ph.D. from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University,

master’s degrees (MPP and MAE) from the University of Michigan, and B.A. from Korea

University.

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Session 1

Tricia YEOH

Chief Operating Officer

Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS), Malaysia

Ms. Tricia Yeoh is the Chief Operating Officer at the Institute for Democracy and Economic

Affairs (IDEAS), Malaysia. She received her BSc. in Econometrics from Monash University and

MSc in Research Methodology from the University of Warwick, UK. Prior to joining IDEAS, she

was Research Officer to the Selangor Chief Minister at the Selangor State Government, Malaysia.

She writes and speaks regularly on issues related to public administration, economics and

governance. She has authored and edited three books on opposition coalition’s Pakatan Rakyat

reforms in Malaysia, and directed an award-winning documentary about the mysterious death of a

political aide at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.

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Session 2

Upendra Dutta CHOUBEY

Director General

Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE), India

Dr. U.D. Choubey is presently Director General in Standing Conference of Public Enterprises

(SCOPE), an Apex Body Promoting Excellence in State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in India. Dr.

Choubey is double Ph.D., (Hydrocarbons & Management); MBA & LL.B. and he has done short

courses in management in Stanford & Oxford. He has more than 40 years’ experience in energy

and management areas in SOEs, the last being Chairman & Managing Director of GAIL (India)

Limited, a Maharatna SOE. He has authored two books : one entitled “Text Book on Natural Gas”

and the other entitled “Untold Story of the Indian Public Sector”. Third book is under publication.

He has written several articles, including on Corporate Governance, Professionalization and

Reforms of SOEs, Corporate Social Responsibility, Oil & Gas sector, Developing Smart Villages,

among others.

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Session 2

Aung NAING OO

Director General

Investment Promotion Division, Myanmar

Mr. Aung Naing Oo is the Director General of the Directorate of Investment and Company

Administration under the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development. He took a

military service from 1981 to 2000. After that he was appointed as a Deputy Geneal Manager of the

Myanma Agricultural Produce Trading under the Ministry of Commerce from 2000 to 2005. Then,

he was promoted as a General Manger at the Export Department of the Myanma Agricultural

Produce Trading in 2005. In 2006, he was transferred to the Minister’s Office of the Ministry of

Commerce as a Principal Officer (Deputy Director General) and in 2010, he served as a Deputy

Director General of the Department of Border Trade under the same Ministry. Afterward, he has

taken as a Deputy Director General Position of the Directorate of Investment and Company

Administration (DICA) under the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development since

May 2011. One year later, he has been promoted as a current position, Director General of the

DICA. He has also appointed as secretary of Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) since 28th

May 2014. He attended trainings in various institutions including WTO and participated in many

international seminars and meetings related to investment, trade and ASEAN affairs. He is married

and has two daughters.

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Session 2

Yuan LIU

Deputy Director General

State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, China

Mr. Liu Yuan, born in 1964, graduated from Renmin University of China in 1992 where he got his

PhD in Economics. From 1992 to 2003, he worked in State Economic ad Trade Commission of

China. From 2003 to 2015, he worked in the Performance Assessment Bureau of State-owned

Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC). Mr. Liu is

responsible for the tenure assessment of all central SOEs and the annual assessment of central

SOEs in power, telecommunication, electronics, aviation and shipping sector.

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Session 2

Fuad Azim HASHIMI

President & CEO

Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance, Pakistan

Mr. Fuad Azim Hashimi is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and

Wales. He has over 45 years of experience in public accounting and diversified business and

commercial ventures in banking, information technology and fund management. He was a partner

with A.F. Ferguson & Co., a member firm of Price Waterhouse & Co. and thereafter served with

Middle East Bank – Dubai, Bankers Equity Ltd., Gestetner Holdings PLC / Ricoh Company, Japan,

Jaffer Group of Companies, Dawood Group and National Investment Trust Limited. From a

Corporate Governance perspective, he has served as a non-executive director on the Boards of Burj

Bank, Crescent Commercial Bank Ltd., Clariant Pakistan Ltd., National Refinery Ltd., Pakistan

Security Printing Corporation and Pakistan Cables Ltd., and is currently on the Board of

International Industries Ltd., where he is additionally Chairman of its Audit Committee. Mr.

Hashimi heads the Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance since September 2007 and has been

a regular participant, moderator and speaker at OECD Asia Network Meetings on Corporate

Governance of State Owned Enterprises and at OECD’s Asian Roundtable on Corporate

Governance. He is also a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group of IFC’s Global Corporate

Governance Forum.

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Session 2

Ma. Angela IGNACIO

Commissioner

Governance Commission for GOCCs, Philippines

Undersecretary Angela E. Ignacio is a Commissioner for the Governance Commission for GOCCs

in the Philippines. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Finance from De

La Salle University, Philippines, and her Masters in Applied Finance from the University of

Melbourne, Australia. Prior to her appointment to the Governance Commission, she served as

Special Assistant to the Secretary of Finance for Corporate Affairs and Management Information

Systems. She also served as President of Technistock Corporation in the Philippines, Vice President

for Kim Eng Securities Philippines and Senior Financial Analyst at Citibank. She was also a part of

the Task Force of Corporate Compensation that initiated major compensation reforms in the

GOCC Sector. She championed the development of the Integrated Corporate Reporting System

(ICRS) and manages the implementation of the Governance Commission’s sectoral and corporate

governance reforms for 51 GOCCs.

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Session 3

John LIM

Chairman of Boustead Projects Ltd.

Immediate Past Chairman of Singapore Institute of Directors (SID),

Former Chairman of the Asia SOE Network, Singapore

Mr. John Lim is the Immediate Past Chairman and Honorary Fellow of the Singapore Institute of

Directors where he was President from 2001 to 2009 and then Chairman from 2009 to 2013. He is

also a core member of the OECD Asian CG Roundtable and former Chairman of its Asian CG

Network for SOEs. John has more than 50 years of private sector corporate experience in Asia,

Australia, New Zealand and the US. Among the senior executive positions he has held are

Executive Deputy Chairman of LMA International, a Singapore listed global medical device

company, CEO of Cold Storage Holdings, a large integrated food manufacturing, distribution and

retail group, and Group Managing Director of two other Singapore listed and diversified industrial

and retail groups. He has lived and worked in several ASEAN countries. He is the immediate Past

Chairman of Building and Construction Authority and a former Deputy Chairman of Agri-foods

and Veterinary Authority, both Singapore statutory boards. He is also a former Chairman of Senoko

Power which was Singapore's largest power generator and previously wholly owned by Temasek

Holdings and of Gas Supply Private Ltd, another Temasek wholly owned subsidiary. He has been

the Deputy Chairman of FairPrice, a trade union co-operative and currently Singapore's larger

supermarket group. He was a member of the Corporate Governance Council which revised and

recommended the Singapore CG Code 2012, of the Companies Act Review Committee which was

responsible for the 2013 revision of the Singapore Companies Act, and of the Securities Industry

Council. He was awarded the Public Service Medal by the President of Singapore in 2006. John is

currently the independent Chairman of two Singapore listed companies and an independent director

of a third as well as of several other private companies. He serves on the Audit, Nomination and

Remuneration Committees of the listed companies, either as Chairman or as a member. He is also

an industrial advisor to a European private equity fund."

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Nguyen Duy LONG

Director, Division of Enterprise Renovation, reorganization and Development

Financial Department for Enterprise, Ministry of Finance (MOF), Viet Nam

Mr Nguyen Duy Long is now working as the Director at Corporate Finance Department, and joined

the Ministry of Finance since 1997. He received his Master of Economics in Academy of Finance

Vietnam. He has been participated in financial management of some majors State of Enterprises

(SOEs) in Vietnam such as: Vietnam Cement Corporation (Vicem), Vietnam Construction and

Import- Export Joint Stock Company (Vinaconex), State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC);

Debt and Asset Trading Corporation (DATC). He also involved in formulation of policies and

mechanisms related to the SOEs restructuring from 2002 to present, in particular: i)To study,

formulate and submit to government authorities on issuing 04 decrees and circulars guiding the

equitization over the period (Decree 64/2012 / ND-CP and Decree 187/2004 / ND-CP and

Decree 109/2007 / ND-CP and Decree 59/2011 / ND-CP and Decree 189/2013 / ND-CP).; ii)

To formulate SOEs Restructuring Scheme, focus on groups and state corporations from 2011-2015

(approved by the Prime Minister in Decision 929 in 2012) and follow-up, synthesis, proposing

policy solutions to the successful implementation of this scheme. Furthermore, he is responsible for

research, building Law of Management and Using of state capital investments in production and

business (2014).

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Lan NGUYEN

Director, Division of SOE Reform Agency of Enterprise Development

Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), Viet Nam

Ms. Lan Nguyen is the Director of State-owned enterprise (SOE) Reform Division, Agency for

Enterprise Development, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Vietnam. During almost 10 years

working for the Government, she has actively involved in the design and implementation of various

programs and plans on SOE reform. She also played key role in drafting important legal documents

which set rules for SOE reform and performance as Government Decrees on the implementation

of rights and obligations of State ownership at SOEs, the re-organization of SOEs, Prime Minister’s

Decisions on criteria for SOE classification. She has a strong viewpoint that the SOE sector must

be reformed to pave the way for the development of market economy and private enterprises. Lan

Nguyen was awarded Fulbright scholarship in 2008 and completed her Master of Public

Administration in Syracuse University, USA in 2009.

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Sang-Woo NAM

Honorary Fellow, Center for International Development

Korea Development Institute (KDI), Korea

Dr. Sang-Woo Nam is Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the KDI School of Public Policy

and Management, and former Executive Secretary of the OECD-Korea Policy Centre. Dr. Nam was

a research fellow at Korea Development Institute (KDI) for twenty years. There he mainly worked

on macroeconomic and financial policy issues, and served as Vice President. Dr. Nam was also a

Senior Research Fellow at the ADB Institute in Tokyo, where he was devoted to corporate

governance issues in East Asia. He was invited as a visiting professor at University of California, San

Diego, Sophia University and National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS; Japan), and

has extensively been involved in development consulting particularly for Vietnam. Dr. Nam was

also an Economist at the World Bank and the Counselor for the Deputy Prime Minister and

Minister of Economic Planning Board in Korea. Dr. Nam received his Ph.D. from Sloan School of

Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Takashi SAKAKIBARA

Chief Advisor

JICA SOE & Banking Sector Restructuring Project, Japan

Mr. Takashi Sakakibara is now Special Advisor of JICA Chief Representative and Chief Advisor of

JICA’s SOE and Banking Sector Restructuring Project (“the Project on enhancing corporate finance

management capacity to implement SOE restructuring in Vietnam” and “Vietnam bank

restructuring support project”) from March 2014. Mr. Sakakibara worked for Japanese Ministry of

Finance for 16 years (1982-1998). He has working experience as Research Associate at Keio

University (2000-2001), Director General of Information Planning at Recof Corporation (2002-

2004), Senior Director at Nippon Mirai Capital Co. ltd (2004-2012) and Executive Director of Japan

Vietnam Economic Forum (2012- ). Mr. Sakakibara has undergraduate degree in Economics at

University of Tokyo in 1982.

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Session 4

Wonhee LEE

Director of SOE Policy Evaluation Research Team

Korea Institute of Public Finance (KIPF), Korea

Mr. Wonhee Lee is the Executive Director of the Center for State-Owned Entities at Korea

Institute of Public Finance (KIPF). Before joining KIPF, He has been the Professor of Public

Administration at Hankyong National University since 1996 and became the Dean of the College of

Humanity and Social Science in 2012. His majors were Budgeting, Public Economics, Public

Enterprise, and Planning. He has a Ph.D. degree in public administration from Seoul National

University. His research interests are in various areas including the performance evaluation of SOEs

and government budget planning. He has performed a lot of research projects for the various

national institutions such as the National Audit Office, the National Assembly, and the National

Committee for Balanced National Development. He has had various field experiences in these areas,

too. He was the Chairperson at the Committee against Budget Waste in the Citizen’s Coalition for

Economic Justice. He was also a member of the Evaluation Committee for Fund Management, the

Evaluation Committee for Public Enterprises, and the Evaluation Committee for PFI. In addition

to more than 130 projects with government offices, he has published around 20 books on public

administration and 30 articles on public finance and public enterprise.

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Session 4

Damber Singh KHARKA

Officiating CEO

Druk Holding and Investments, Bhutan

Dr. Damber Singh Kharka completed his higher secondary education and bachelor’s degree in

commerce from Sherubtse College under Delhi University in 1987. Upon being selected through the

National Competition of Graduate Selection for Civil Service in Bhutan, he had undergone a one

year Management Program at the Royal Institute of Management (RIM), Thimphu and got

appointed as a faculty understudy at the RIM itself in1988. He got the scholarship from Asian

Development Bank and completed his Masters in Economics in 1992 from the University of New

Brunswick in Canada and completed his PhD in Business Management (Finance) from Harayana

School of Management, GJUST, India in 2012. Dr. Damber was involved in teaching regular

courses in Economics, Project Management, Statistics and Finance at undergraduate and

postgraduate Diploma courses from 1992 till the time he left the RIM in 2007 to join his current

organization as an Executive Director at the Druk Holding and Investments (DHI), a government

holding company that acts as the investment arm of the state and presently manages 19 SOEs in

Bhutan. Presently he is the Officiating CEO of the Company. He still maintains his relationship

with the RIM in the capacity of a visiting faculty and few other institutions. Besides CEO’s overall

responsibilities of investment management and general administration, Dr. Damber is very actively

involved in managing corporate governance and performances of SOEs, Assessing Training Needs

of the Corporate Employees, Identifying Training institutes and individual training consultants,

networking and organizing capacity development programs for the senior managers and Board

Directors. He is a certified trainer and participates in training development and delivery in several

management disciplines. His sound experiences as corporate board director in several companies

representing different economic sectors and as a trainer of the board directors provided him with

sound exposure to corporate governance and performance management systems. He has several

papers published in the national, regional and international referred journals and presented papers in

many national and international conferences.

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Ram Kumar MISHRA

Director

Institute of Public Enterprise, India

Professor Ram Kumar Mishra, graduated from the International Management Programme, SDA

Bocconi, Milan, Italy. He has been a fellow of the British Council and the Commonwealth

Secretariat. He has been involved in research and teaching stints at London Business School,

Maison Des Sciences De L’ Hommes, Paris, University of Bradford, United Kingdom, UN Center

on Promotional Enterprises, Ljubljana, as well as University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has worked

on key assignments with Indian Government including Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Power,

Ministry of Trade and Commerce, Ministry of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises, and Ministry

of Finance (Department of Disinvestment). He has also been a researcher for Planning

Commission. Finance Commission, Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, State Bureaus of

Public Enterprises, Financial Institutions and Banks. He has also worked extensively with

International organizations including OECD, United Nations University - World Institute for

Economic Development Research, International Civil Service Consortium. He has supervised more

than 50 doctoral researchers from several Universities in the areas of Public Administration,

Management, Economics, and Commerce and trained In-service officers both from government

and industry for the past three decades. His current areas of interest include Corporate Finance,

Corporate Governance, International Management, Management Controls, Management Education,

Infrastructure Development, Restructuring, Economic Reforms, Social Sector Management, Good

Governance and Economic Environment.

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Antonius ALIJOYO

Chairman

National Committee on Governance, Indonesia

Dr. Antonius Alijoyo has more than 30 years of combined experiences both as academician and

professional practitioners in various industries either as senior executive, board members and senior

partner in large corporations among others are Unilever Indonesia, Jaya Group, British American

Tobacco Indonesia, AAJ Associates/RSM International, and Commonwealth Bank Indonesia.

Whilst he has been currently teaching as lecturer at Parahyangan Catholic University both at

undergraduate and postgraduate program, he has been also Independent Commissioner(s) at AIG

Indonesia and Tokio Marine Life Indonesia since April 2015. Previously, he has dedicated his time

as independent member of Audit Board of Indonesia Financial Services Authorities (FSA) - Otoritas

Jasa Keuangan (OJK) during January 2013 until December 2014. Before his appointment in FSA, he

has vast experiences as independent commissioner and chairman/member of audit/oversight risk

committee of corporations from various industries among others: PT Indocement Tbk - (Cement),

PT Indokordsa (Textile/Cord), PT Adhi Karya Tbk (Construction), PT Multi Bintang Indonesia

Tbk (Brewery- Heineken), and ASTRA Group (Automotive). He has been active in several

professional associations both international and national institutions, and involved in the

establishment of some notfor-profit organizations that support better corporate governance and risk

management practices in Indonesia, among others are :

Indonesia Professional in Risk Management Association (Indonesia PRiMA)

Indonesia National Certification Body for Risk Management Professional (LSPMR)

Center for Risk Management Studies Indonesia ( CRMS Indonesia)

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Hanjun PARK

Head of SOE Evaluation Research Team

Korea Institute of Public Finance (KIPF), Korea

Mr. Hanjun Park is the Head of SOE Evaluation Research Team at Korea Institute of Public

Finance (KIPF) and currently serving as a member of the Committee for Management of Seoul

Metropolitan Public Institutions. Prior to joining KIPF, He lectured extensively on public

management at major universities in Korea. His academic and policy interests cover public sector

reform, strategic management, personnel management and performance evaluation. He has

performed many research and consultation projects for various public institutions including major

state-owned enterprises as well as central government offices and metropolitan councils in Korea.

Dr. Park is a regular speaker at events on public management and policy sciences both in Korea and

aboard including the American Society for Public Administration Annual Conferences. He has also

published articles in international journals including Public Management Review. He holds a PhD

in Public affairs from Indiana University, Bloomington.

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Khine Khine Nwe

Joint Secretary

Investment Promotion Division, Myanmar

Ms. Khine Khine Nwe is a member of Myanmar Investment Commission and is a member of

Board of Trustees on ASEAN CSR Network (ACN). She holds her Master's Degree from Yangon

University, Myanmar and taught at Assumption University in Bangkok, Thailand. She is the Deputy

Managing Director of Best Industrial Co. Ltd., a garment manufacturer; Secretary General of

Myanmar Garment Manufacturers' Association; the first elected female Joint Secretary General of

Union of Myanmar Federation of Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and is still active on the

Chamber Secretariat. She heads the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee in UMFCCI;

engages in Industrial Relations; acts as Chairman of Myanmar Garment Human Resource

Development Centre (MGHRDC) and Honorary Principal of UMFCCI Training Institute. Her

passion is to help develop an inclusive socio-friendly economic environment in Myanmar that will

lead to equitable growth of the Nation.

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Muhammad Abdullah YUSUF

Chairman of Public Sector Committee

Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAP), Pakistan

Mr. Muhammad Abdullah Yusuf qualified as Chartered Accountant from ICAEW London in 1972.

He practiced professionally in England for several years before returning to Pakistan. He joined the

Pakistan Public Sector in 1980 and held various positions, including as Secretaries of the

Privatization Commission, the Board of Investment, and the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural

Resources. He took on the role as Chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue in 2004 until

retirement in 2008. Mr. Yusuf is an active Council member of the Institute of Chartered

Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) since 1983. He is currently Director NIB Bank Limited, Chairman

of Public Sector Committee and Economic Advisory Committee of (ICAP), member International

Public Sector Accounting Standers Board of (IFAC), Chairman Pakistan Foundation Fighting

Blindness (Trustee since December 1988), Chairman Sub-Committee of Federal Tax Ombudsman

and Director Pakistan Aluminum Beverage Cans Limited.

Present Status

1. Director: Pakistan Aluminum Beverage Cans Limited (December o1, 2014 to date)

2. Council Member: Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (1983 to date)

3. Chairman: Pakistan Foundation Fighting Blindness (December-2009 to date)

4. Chairman: Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance (February 25, 2011 to date)

5. Director: NIB Bank Limited (March 30, 2010 to date)

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Cesar L. VILLANUEVA

Chairman

Governance Commission for GOCCs, Philippines

Secretary Cesar L. Villanueva is the chairman of the Governance Commission for GOCCs (GCG),

which is the government agency tasked to implement the objectives of R.A. No. 10149, otherwise

known as the “GOCC Governance Act of 2011,” to act as the central advisory, monitoring, and

oversight body with authority to formulate, implement and coordinate policies governing the

GOCCs, and GFIs in the country. He was the Dean of the ATENEO DE MANILA LAW

SCHOOL from 2004 to 2011, and remains a professorial lecturer in Corporation Law, Agency &

Trusts, Partnerships & Joint Ventures. In 2011, he was appointed the Executive Secretary for the

ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL of the ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB). Secretary

Villanueva obtained in 1977 his Bachelor of Science Commerce in Accounting (magna cum laude);

and in 1981 his Bachelor of Laws Degree (LL.B.) from ATENEO DE MANILA LAW SCHOOL

(valedictorian, cum laude). He obtained his Master of Laws (LL.M.) from HARVARD LAW

SCHOOL at Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1989. In October 2005, he was conferred a Diplomat in

Juridical Science (D.J.S.) by the SAN BEDA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LAW.

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Huong NGUYEN

Senior Researcher

Vietnam Institute for Development and Strategies (VIDS), Viet Nam

Ms. Huong Nguyen is a former Director of the Department for Macroeconomics and Strategy

Studies at the National Institute for Development Strategy, Ministry of Planning & Investment in

Vietnam. She is responsible for doing researches and drafting reports and policy recommendations

to foster the transition to a market economy. She was formerly Humphrey Fellow 2012-13,

Fulbright Program. She received a PhD in Economics of Development from the National Institute

for Development Strategy, Vietnam and a Master’s Joint Degree in Economics of Development

from the Institute of Social Studies (Netherlands) and the National Economics University

(Vietnam). As a Rajawali fellow 2014-15, Dr. Nguyen will conduct a comparative project on public

investment management process in the U.S and East Asian countries.

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Seungju BAEK

Senior policy analyst

OECD

Mr. Seungju Baek is currently working as Senior Policy Analyst at the Directorate for Financial and

Enterprise Affairs (DAF) of the OECD. Before joining the OECD he had worked for the Korean

Ministry of Strategy and Finance (MOSF) for almost 20 years. He has built strong knowledge and

experiences in establishing development policy and implementation strategies and allocating

resources in various fields including regional development, SOC, industry, SMEs, energy, resources,

and agriculture. In particular, he worked closely with the World Bank and the Korea Development

Institute (KDI) in conducting the Knowledge Partnership (KP) Program, which was designed to

share Korea’s development experiences and knowledge with developing countries. He studied

Economics and received the M.S degree in public policy from the Seoul National University, Korea,

and the University of Colorado, United States. He also finished the Ph.D. course of public policy in

Korea University, Korea.


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