Laurent SCHWAB has a PhD in macroeconomics from the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne), and has lived for fourteen years in Southeast Asia, mainly in Thailand and Vietnam. He has worked for the United Nations (ESCAP) and as a consultant and educator.
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Rachelle M. Scott is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee (USA). She is the author of Nirvana for Sale ? : Buddhism, Wealth, and the Dhammakâya Temple in Contemporary Thailand and is working on a book project entitled Gifts of Beauty and Blessings of Wealth : The New Prosperity Goddesses of Thailand.
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Paulo Castro Seixas has a master in Sociology and a PhD in Anthropology. Associate Professor at Fernando Pessoa University since 2004, he is coordinator of the Cultural Studies Programs and of Humanitarian Action, Cooperation and Development Master. Researcher in projects funded by World Bank, EU and Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, he is author/co-author of 6 books and organizer of other 5. He is also author and Director of six anthropological documentaries. His main interests (...)

Bernard Sellato, born in 1951, graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie in Nancy, France, in 1973 and was sent immediately to Borneo to work as a field geologist, mapping the then yetuncharted far interior of the island. There he became acquainted withthe Aoheng and other isolated Dayak groups. After a spell of severalyears in Saharan and sub-Saharan West Africa, he returned to Borneoto spend two years with the Aoheng.
After joining CeDRASEMI, he started work in 1982 as a (...)

Steven SELVARAJU is the Director of the Penang Diocesan Pastoral Institute. He holds a Bachelor of Theology from College General, Penang, as well as a Masters and Doctorate of Theology with Specialisation in Catechetics and Youth Ministry from the Pontifical Salesian University, Rome, Italy. Prior to his appointment at the Penang Diocesan Pastoral Institute, he was Project Director at the National Catechetical Office, Kuala Lumpur for 5 years where his main responsibility was to collaborate (...)

Director of Urban Design and Development Center - UddC
Assistant Professor Niramon Serisakul received her B.Arch (Hons.) at Chulalongkorn University and MA and D.Eng. at the University of Tokyo. Since 2005, she has taught urban design at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Chulalongkorn University. Aside from teaching, she is a co-founder and director of Urban Design and Development Center (UddC) and leads several significant urban regeneration projects such as Bangkok 250, (...)

Winston Set Aung has been involved in many international and regional research projects in various countries including Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Japan. He has successfully completed over 40 international and regional research projects in more than 10 countries. He has written various research papers in cooperation with several international and regional academic, research and policy institutes that include University of Tokyo of Japan, Institute (...)

Suchart Setthamalinee is the head department of Peace studies at Payap University, Chiang Mai and is a specialist of Muslim studies. He received his MA and PhD degree in Sociology from University of Hawai’i. His most recent books are entitled Muslim Youths and in the Modern World (ed 2015) ; and In the Name of Islam : A Survey of Islamic Teaching on Peace, Violence, Family and Woman (2017). His current researches focus on the case study of Uyghur in Xinjiang. He also serves at the (...)

Ho SHU HUANG is an Associate Research Fellow with the Military Transformations Programme at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. His research interests include military transformation, the history of military technology, and military sociology, in particular, the social and cultural experience of war in history. (...)

Jacqueline Aquino Siapno (Joy) teaches Philosophy and Political Economy in the Universidade Nacional Timor Leste (UNTL) and also co-founded the School of Democratic Economics, Faculty of Economics (UNTL), with Hendro Sangkoyo. She has also previously taught at the Universidade Dili and Universidade da Paz in Timor Leste. Once a year, she teaches in Universitat Jaume I in Castellon, Spain, in the Graduate Program in International Conflict, Peace and Development. She has held a tenured (...)