Keynote Speaker
Prof. Mohan Munasinghe
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2021 Blue Planet Prize Laureate
Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Founder Chairman of the Munasinghe Institute for Development
Sri Lanka
Prof. Mohan Munasinghe is Founder Chairman of the Munasinghe Inst. of Development (MIND) and MIND Group, Colombo; the 2021 Blue Planet Prize Laureate (also called ‘Environmental Nobel Prize’); and Vice Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-AR4), who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize for Peace. The Heads of five countries have presented highest national awards to him. He is also Chairman, Presidential Expert Commission on Sustainable Sri Lanka 2030 Vision; Distinguished Guest Professor at Peking University, China; and Honorary Senior Advisor to the Government of Sri Lanka He has earned post-graduate degrees in engineering, physics and development economics from Cambridge University (UK), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), and McGill University and Concordia University (Canada). Prof. Munasinghe has also received several honorary doctorates (honoris causa). Highlights from 40 years of distinguished public service include working as Senior Energy Advisor to the President of Sri Lanka, Advisor to the United States Presidents Council on Environmental Quality (PCEQ), and Senior Advisor/Manager, World Bank. He has taught as Visiting Professor at several leading universities worldwide, and won many international prizes and medals for his research and its applications. Prof. Munasinghe is world renowned for developing the integrated, trans-disciplinary ‘Sustainomics’ methodology for sustainable development. He has authored over 120 books and 400 technical papers on economics, sustainable development, climate change, power, energy, water resources, transport, environment, disasters, and information technology. He is a Fellow of several internationally recognized Academies of Science, and serves on the editorial boards of over a dozen professional journals.
Plenary Speakers
Asst. Prof. Chutapa Kunsook
- Speech Title: "Blue carbon in seagrass ecosystem in the eastern Gulf of Thailand : the indirect contributors to climate change mitigation"
- Rambhai Barni Rajabhat University, Thailand Marine Biologist, Project leader of Crab Research and Coral Rehabilitation in the Eastern Gulf of Thailand
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Dr. Kunsook is a Marine Biologist and her research areas are crab ecology, coral rehabilitation, and blue carbon in Thailand’s Eastern Gulf seagrass ecosystem. Her current goal is to disseminate knowledge, skill, and learning management to schools and the local community in Thailand’s sea and coastal areas in order to manage life below water in a sustainable manner. Furthermore, she prefers to collaborate with others both inside and outside her organization to achieve this goal. Dr. Kansook is a Lecturer in the Department of Biology at Rambhai Barni Rajabhat University in Thailand. She is the Project Leader of Crab Research and Coral Rehabilitation in the Eastern Gulf of Thailand as well as the Deputy Director of the RBRU Academic Service Center. In 2021, she received the Rajabhat Sriayudthaya Outstanding Award in Area Base you mean Area based (???) Development Researcher, as well as the RBRU and Faculty of Science and Technology Outstanding Award in Scientific Research.
Prof. S. W. Kotagama
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Professor Emeritus
Department of Zoology and Environment Sciences
University of Colombo
Sri Lanka
Wiwik Harjanti
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Mulawarman University
Indonesia
Wiwik Harjanti is a lecturer at Mulawarman University’s Faculty of Law in Indonesia. In 2008, she completed her postgraduate studies at Gadjah Mada University. Natural Resources Law, Mining Law, Agrarian Law, Forestry Law, Climate Change, and Plantation Law are among her areas of expertise. Her most recent publications include, Training on the Making of Village Legal Products Caring for Mangroves using the Roccipi Method (Modul), Implications of the Born of the Work Creation Law on Regional Authorities and Sustainable Planting Regulations (Research Report), Seeing Indonesia from East Kalimantan: Reflection on Coal Extractivism, Social Vulnerability and Ecological Justice in Indonesia.
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