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PROFILE OF SPEAKERS AND FACILITATORS

LOURDES S. ADRIANO is the lead agriculture sector economist, and theAdvisor and concurrently Practice Leader of the Agriculture, RuralDevelopment and Food Security Unit, Regional and Sustainable DevelopmentDepartment, Asian Development Bank (ADB). Her technical and workexperiences have been in the fields of food security; agricultural, rural, andregional development; agricultural trade; and poverty reduction. She obtainedher graduate education and postgraduate training in development economicsand agricultural economics at the University of Cambridge, University of

Sussex, and University of the Philippines.

ROEHLANO BRIONES is a Senior Research Fellow at the Philippine Institutefor Development Studies where he specializes in agricultural policy. He is thelead expert in the drafting of the rules and procedures for the ASEAN PlusThree Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR). He has served as a consultant for

ADB, the World Bank, and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), wherehe has also assisted government agencies in various Asian countries,especially Thailand, Indonesia, and Viet Nam. He received his Ph.D. degree ineconomics from the University of the Philippines and did postdoctoral researchat the WorldFish Center in Penang, Malaysia.

NGIN CHHAY is the current Chairperson of the ASEAN Food Security ReserveBoard. He is also the Director of the Department of Rice Crops under theMinistry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) of the Royal Governmentof Cambodia since 2009. He also serves as Adviser to the MAFF ProjectSupport Unit for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) andDeputy Director of the National Integrated Pest Management Program. Hereceived his MBA degree from the University of Queensland in Australia in2000 and his bachelors degree in agriculture from the Royal University of

Agriculture in Phnom Penh in 1990, specializing in integrated pest management of rice crops.

RAMON CLARETE is the Dean of the School of Economics of the Universityof the Philippines (UP), where he has been a faculty member since 1989. Priorto this, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario andResearch Fellow at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. His researchinterests are economics of agriculture, international economics, developmenteconomics, and public economics. He received his A.B. degree in economicsfrom Xavier University, completed all requirements for his M.A. in Economics atUP School of Economics, and obtained his Ph.D. degree in economics fromthe University of Hawaii.

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SAMUEL DAINES is the President of the SRD Research Group based inMassachusetts and a consultant in food supplychain infrastructure andinternational trade. He has served as a visiting researcher at HarvardUniversity, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and as a Fellow at theStanford Food Research Institute. Before founding the SRD Research group,he was a Senior Economist in USAID Washington and an Associate at the

Ford Foundation. He has worked in over 70 countries with governmentagencies, the World Bank, regional and national development banks, and

private sector companies.He received a Doctorate in Law from Harvard University, specializing ininternational trade law and economics.

VEDINI HARISHCHANDRA is a development economist with the Environment,Natural Resources and Agriculture Division, Southeast Asia Department, AsianDevelopment Bank. She has over 12 years of professional experience workingwith government and international development institutions on various projects,focusing on rural and private sector development, public policy, economicplanning, strategy, and management. Before joining ADB, she worked with theWorld Bank in Washington, D.C. as an agricultural economist. She holds amaster's degree and Ph.D. degree in agricultural economics. She is a MasonFellow in Public Policy and Management from Harvard University.

TAKAKO ITO assumed her current post as Minister-Counsellor of the Missionof Japan to ASEAN in May 2011. She joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ofJapan in 1985. Her diplomatic postings include the Embassy of Japan inCanada (19881991), the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations(19972001), and the Embassy of Japan in Malaysia (20012003) and inIndonesia (20102011). She graduated from Sophia University in 1985 with aB.A. degree in international legal studies and earned her M.A. for internationalaffairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton

University, Canada in 1988.

PRAMOD K. JOSHI is the Director for South Asia of the International FoodPolicy Research Institute (IFPRI). He was formerly director of the National

Academy of Agricultural Research Management and the National Centre forAgricultural Economics and Policy Research in India. His areas of researchinclude food policy, market and institutional economics, and climate changeresilient agriculture. He was recently named a Fellow of the Indian Society of

Agricultural Economics (2012) for his lifetime contributions in agriculturaleconomics and rural development. He holds a masters degree and Ph.D.degree in agricultural economics from the G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology in

Pantnagar, India.

PHAM QUANG MINH is Assistant Director/Head of Agriculture Industries andNatural Resource Division, Finance, Industry and Infrastructure Directorate,

ASEAN Economic Community Department. His research interests areinternational and economic laws, agriculture development and integration,agriculture subsidies, and related topics. He received his M.A degree ininternational law from the National University of Ha Noi, Viet Nam and his Ph.Ddegree in international law from the same university.

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RONNIE S. NATAWIDJAJA is the Director of the Center for Agrifood Policyand Agribusiness Studies (CAPAS) and a senior lecturer of the Faculty of

Agriculture at Padjadjaran University, Bandung, Indonesia. He also serves asSecretary General of the Indonesian Society of Agricultural Economics(PERHEPI). His areas of research include agrifood trade and policy, valuechain analysis, market transformation, and institutional economics.He received

his Ph.D. degree in agricultural and resource economics from the University ofHawaii at Manoa, Honolulu.

TAHLIM SUDARYANTO is the Assistant Minister for International Cooperationin the Ministry of Agriculture, Republic of Indonesia. He has spent more than 13years as the director of research, planning, and development agencies withinthe Ministry of Agriculture, including the Indonesian Center for AgriculturalSocio-Economic and Policy Studies. Major areas of his research work are foodpolicy, international trade, and rural economies. He received his B.S. and M.S.degrees in agricultural economics from Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesiain 1978 and 1980, respectively, and completed his Ph.D. degree in economics at

North Carolina State University in 1987.

ERIC J. WAILES is Distinguished Professor and L. C. Carter Chair in Rice andSoybean Marketing at the Department of Agricultural Economics and

Agribusiness in the University of Arkansas. He conducts research onagricultural policy, trade, and marketing, with an emphasis on the ricesector. His team developed and maintains the Arkansas Global Rice Marketand Riceflow models, which have been used to provide analyses for majorinternational agencies, many national governments, and research institutes. Heobtained his B.S. degree in agricultural economics at Cornell University in 1972,

with specialization in tropical agriculture, and his Ph.D. degree in agricultural economics in 1983at Michigan State University, with an emphasis on international policy and marketing.