ASEAN Regional Mine Action Center Regional Workshop 2018

Mr. Ly Panharith

Executive Director

ASEAN Regional Mine Action Center

Speaker in Session 2. Overview of ARMAC
Speaker in Session 13. Cambodia and ARMAC: Towards Effective Operationalisation
Speaker in Session 14. Wrap Up of the Workshop

Biography

From October 2017, I have assumed the position of executive director of the ASEAN Regional Mine Action Center (ARMAC) which was an ASEAN entity established by the ASEAN Leaders in 2012 to serve as a center of excellence to encourage efforts to address mine/ERW problem for interested ASEAN Member States.

During my early career, I worked in the areas of finance and procurement. I started in 2013 with a local NGO and then international NGO focusing on the Cambodian basic education programme. Later, I moved to undertake the advisory position for various Asian Development Bank's projects expanding my knowledge to the aspect of project management. My enrollment in mine action began in 2012 when I was employed by the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) first as an advisor and later as a deputy secretary general. My main responsibilities assigned by CMAA were: 1.) project manager of Clearing for Results Project Phase 3 (a mine action project funded by Australia, Switzerland, Canada and UNDP); 2.) deputy leader of the task force on the development of Cambodia's National Mine Action Strategy 2018-2025 and 3.) deputy leader of the inter-ministerial working group to support the operationalization of ARMAC.

I completed a master degree of finance at Charles Sturt University in 2009. I have also attended many training courses in mine action.