young Professional Members

Chris Aurand Senior expert - innovation Sourcing Mitr Phol Sugar corp

Amelie Desjardins Strategic Development consultant

Amélie is an independent consultant providing services in strategic business growth, human rights and organizational analysis. Prior to joining the thomson reuters Foundation as Legal Programme Manager, Asia Pacific, she co-founded Moto Energy Solutions (MES), a social enterprise based in rwanda, that aimed to provide access to connectivity. After MES’ merger with East African Power (EAP), a clean energy developer, she remains Advisor to the Executive Committee. Amélie is passionate about bridging the gap between people in need with those who can help. Having been based between Hong Kong, Bangkok and Kigali from 2017-2020, she is proud to dedicate her time towards driving social change through economic development and sustainable growth projects in APAC and in East Africa. She has an LLB. from Laval University and an LLM. in International Law from the Universite de Montreal that she finished in Beijing, China. Dr. Hashwin Ganesh President Caprich International Inc. tel: +1 855 434 2403 Email: info@caprichinternational.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ hashwin-ganesh-20846522/ Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google. ca/citations?user=7J3GOuQAAAAJ&hl=en BACKGROUND Dr. Hashwin Ganesh FMVA is a Canadian scientist, social entrepreneur and a private equity professional from Toronto, Canada. He is an alumnus of the University of toronto and president of Caprich International Inc., a Canadian knowledge-equity firm based in Markham, ON. His areas of interest include technology, Global trade, capital Markets and Real Estate. Dr. Hashwin Ganesh is deeply passionate about social equity, philanthropy-through-empowerment and a believer in “business for good”.

Paulo Guedes Moreau Research Analyst Tractus Asia Ltd. BACKGROUND Mr. Paulo Guedes Moreau began work with Tractus Asia in February 2020 as a Research

Analyst at the firm’s Bangkok Office. In this role, Mr. Guedes works with the company’s Directors, Managers and consultants to support tractus’ foreign direct investment and trade consulting services in ASEAN, especially in thailand, for both foreign and domestic clients. In order to realize regional projects, he closely collaborates with Tractus’ offices in china, india, indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam, and the USA to deliver exceptional value and unique solutions to clients. Mr. Guedes’ interest in Asia began while seeking advice from his professor regarding the optimal location to do his undergraduate exchange in his final year. His professor highlighted the dynamic business environment and the fast-growing nature of Asian economies in the 21st century, all of which further fostered Mr. Guedes’ curiosity in Asia. Wanting to garner more exposure to this part of the world and its opportunities, he was eager to accept his offer to do his exchange in Bangkok at the thammasat business School starting in August 2018. Having completed his 5-month undergraduate exchange term at thammasat with First Class Honors (3.6/4.0 GPA), Mr. Guedes extended his stay in bangkok and began work with the thai-canadian chamber of commerce as their commercial coordinator until June 2019. In this role, Mr. Guedes served as a liaison between public and private sector organizations in thailand and canada in order to support, promote and enhance bilateral trade. Seizing the opportunity to study and work in bangkok gave him holistic view of the thai business environment and to a lesser extent the Southeast Asian business environment as well. After nearly 1-year in Thailand, Mr. Guedes had to return to Canada to finish his business undergraduate degree. However, en route back to canada he stopped by in Mozambique to help a local businessman reestablish the canada-Mozambique chamber of Commerce in Maputo by August 2019. Mr. Guedes now holds an Honours Bachelor of commerce in international Management (Cum Laude), from the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada. As a proud canadian, he is an active member of the thai-canadian chamber of commerce and aims to strengthen bilateral trade between ASEAN and Canada. In his leisure time, Paulo enjoys skiing, swimming, powerlifting, reading, and playing piano. He is fluent in English, French, Spanish with intermediate ability in Portuguese and German.

Daniel W. Lin infrastructure Financing consultant United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) BACKGROUND Daniel is an infrastructure financing and economics affairs consultant with the Financing for Development Section of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand. He operates the implementation of the infrastructure Financing and PublicPrivate Partnership Network of Asia and the Pacific with 30 member States from Asia, Africa, and europe with the support of the Ministry of Finance of China. He was previously a research fellow with the Institute of Asian Research at the University of british columbia in coordination with the Asia Pacific Foundation of canada in Vancouver, canada, focusing on development economics, multilateral institutions and regional integration for emerging economies in Southeast Asia. He holds a BA in Political Science and economics from the University of british columbia and an MSc in International Political Economy (research track) from the London School of Economics.