Panel Session 6
Dr. Yong Ming Li
Fellow, East West Center
Biography:
Dr. Ming Li Yong is a Fellow at the East-West Center, where she is studying issues relating to livelihoods, development, transboundary water governance, and hydropower development in the Mekong River Basin. Her research thus far has centred on the opportunities and challenges relating to community-based natural resource management, civil society movements and strategies, public participation in transboundary environmental governance, and the institutional arrangements that influence the politics around water resource development in the Mekong Region.
Ming Li received her Ph.D. degree from The University of Sydney in 2019, after which she joined The School for Field Studies’ Center for Conservation Studies and Development in Cambodia as a faculty member where she taught a course on environmental ethics and development, and served as a principal investigator on research projects relating to climate change vulnerability and solid waste management on the Tonle Sap Lake. She has also taught courses on academic writing and the environment at Pannasastra University of Cambodia in Siem Reap, and courses on the geographies of food and sustainability at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Dr. Yong Ming Li
Fellow, East West Center
Biography:
Dr. Ming Li Yong is a Fellow at the East-West Center, where she is studying issues relating to livelihoods, development, transboundary water governance, and hydropower development in the Mekong River Basin. Her research thus far has centred on the opportunities and challenges relating to community-based natural resource management, civil society movements and strategies, public participation in transboundary environmental governance, and the institutional arrangements that influence the politics around water resource development in the Mekong Region.
Ming Li received her Ph.D. degree from The University of Sydney in 2019, after which she joined The School for Field Studies’ Center for Conservation Studies and Development in Cambodia as a faculty member where she taught a course on environmental ethics and development, and served as a principal investigator on research projects relating to climate change vulnerability and solid waste management on the Tonle Sap Lake. She has also taught courses on academic writing and the environment at Pannasastra University of Cambodia in Siem Reap, and courses on the geographies of food and sustainability at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.