The Asia and the Pacific Regional Seminar on the Contribution of Development to

Professor Vitit Muntarbhorn was appointed as the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia in March 2021. Professor Vitit is a Thai law Professor with longstanding experience working pro bono for the UN on human rights. He has helped the UN in a variety of positions... Read More →

Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, a macroeconomist and public policy analyst, is a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) – a globally reputed think-tank in Bangladesh, where he had been its first Executive Director. Earlier, he was a Senior Research Fellow at Bangladesh... Read More →

Ms Chee Yoke Ling is an international lawyer whose areas of expertise include the environmental, social and economic impacts of globalization, especially in countries of the South. Since 1993 she has worked closely with key negotiators from the global South, scientists and NGOs to... Read More →

Rineeta Naik is Human Rights and Development lead at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Southeast Asia Regional Office. She began her career as a journalist with the Indian Express in Mumbai, India. This was followed by a 10-year stint at the South Asia... Read More →