Over the course of her career she has gained experience in project management and research, particularly in the Tonle Sap Lake and Coastal area. This has encompassed a wide range of experience including designing research action plans, field research, participation in stakeholder meetings, data gathering from local communities, and questionnaire writing.
Dr. Chusit Apirumanekul Since 2005 Dr. Chusit Apirumanekul has worked at the Regional Flood Mitigation and Management Centre under Mekong River Commission (MRC), in Phnom Penh, Cambodia as Flood Forecast Expert. Then he moved to MRC Secretariat, in Vientiane, Lao PDR in 2007 where he currently holds the position of Operational Hydrologist. After completing a Bachelor of Engineering at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, and a Master of Engineering at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, in 2005 he obtained his Doctorate degree from the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo, Japan, with his dissertation ‘Application of Spatial and Temporal Downscaling of Monthly Gridded Rainfall to Daily Rainfall by Multifractal to Statistical Extreme Events’. His most recent research has included in 2005-06 participating in ‘Capacity Building for Planning and Implementation of Flood Preparedness Programs at Provincial and District Levels in The Lower Mekong Basin (Phase II)’; Project Managing the Development of 2005 and 2006 Annual Flood Report for the MRC; and, Flood Mapping in Kok basin in Northern Thailand, 2006-07. He has published literature relating to hydrology in highly urbanised areas such as Bangkok and Dhaka, and also on flood forecasting and modeling of rainfall and drainage patterns.
Ms. Elnora M. de la Rosa A Research Associate at SEI, Elnora is mostly involved in project and research activities within the Risk, Livelihoods and Vulnerability Programme and Water and Sanitation Programme with focus in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Past professional experience include (among others); a) networking and coordination of NGO development activities in the GMS, and b) managing community development projects and capacity or institution building activities in the Philippines (i.e. the Rural Livelihood Generation Programme and the Integrated Rural Financing Programme). She holds a masters degree on Human Settlements Development in the field of Rural and Regional Development Planning from the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand and an undergraduate degree in Agriculture major in Agricultural Economics from Visayas State University (formerly called Visayas State College of Agriculture) in the Philippines. Her research interests include community development and participation, environmental assessment, vulnerability analysis, migration, microfinance and social and economic issues related to water and sanitation.
Mr. Mak Sithirith Mr. Mak Sithirith is a founder and Executive Director of Fisheries Action Coalition Team (FACT) since its first established in 2000. He graduated from the Royal University of Agriculture, Cambodia before he earned his Masters Degree, with a major in “Regional and Rural Development and Planning” from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. Before initiating to establish FACT, he worked as an Environmental Programme Coordinator with NGO Forum in Cambodia, and his work was broadly recognized as a potential emerging leader in the field of natural resource management, especially in the area of fishery issues around the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia. Currently he is undertaking his PhD at the National University of Singapore, Department of Geography and his research is focused on the Tonle Sap.
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