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1 FOR PARTICIPANTS ONLY 18 August 2006 UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC (UNESCAP) UNDP/ESCAP ARTNeT Consultative Meeting on Trade Facilitation and Regional Integration August 2006 Bangkok LIST OF PARTICIPANTS BANGLADESH Mr. Elias Ahmed, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, Building No. 3, Room No. 18, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) , Fax: (880-2) , BHUTAN Mr. Tandin Tshering, Regional Director, Regional Trade and Industry Office, Thimphu, Bhutan, Tel: (975-2) , Fax: (975-2) , CAMBODIA Mr. Penn Souvicheat, Deputy Director, Intellectual Property Department, Ministry of Commerce Phnom Penh, Tel: (855) , Fax: (855) , CHINA Ms. Ding Wei, First Secretary, Department for WTO Affairs, Ministry of Commerce, Beijing , Tel: (86-10) , Fax: (86-10) , INDIA Mr. Himanshu Gaupta, Director, Department of Comemrce, Ministry of Commerce, New Delhi, Tel: ( 91-11) , himanshu.gupta@nic.in INDONESIA Mr. Djunaedi, Deputy Director of Business Climate, Directorate of Export Import Facilitation, Directorate General of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Trade, Jalan M.I. Ridwan Rais No. 5, Jakarta 10110

2 LAO PEOPLE S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC Mr. Sirisamphanh Vorachith, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, Phonehxay Road, Vientiane, Tel: (856-21) , Fax: (856-21) , <siri_vor@yahoo.com, siri_vor@moc.gov.la> MALAYSIA H.E. Mr. Noor Muhamad Yacob, Ambassador of Malaysia to the WTO, Geneva, Switzerland, Tel: (41-22) , Fax: (41-22) , muhd.noor@ties.itu.ch NEPAL Mr. Purushottam Ojha, Joint Secretary, Coordination and Monitoring Division, Office of Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, Singha Durbar, Kathmandu, puruojha@gmail.com Mr. Bal Govinda Bista, Director General, Department of Customs, Kathmandu, Tel: (977-1) , Fax: (977-1) , bg_bista@yahoo.com PAKISTAN Mr. Nasim Qureshi, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, Government of Pakistan, Rm. No. 417 Block A, Pakistan Secretariat, Islamabad, Tel: (92-51) , Fax: (92-51) , nasimqureshi@gmail.com, tiph@comsats.net.pk PHILIPPINES Mr. Pedro Vicente Cabangon Mendoza, Director, Philippine Shippers Bureau, Department of Trade and Industry, 5/F Trade and Industry Building 361 Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City 1200, Tel: ( 63-2) , Fax: (63-2) pvmendoza@dti.gov.ph, pvmendoza@globe.ap.blackberry.net RUSSIAN FEDERATION Mr. Mikhali K. Antipov, Director of the Department of Government Regulation of Foreign Trade of the Ministry, Moscow SRI LANKA Mr. Venggadasalam Sithambaram Sidath Kumar, Deputy Director of Commerce, Department of Comemrce, Colombo 02, Tel: (94-11) , Fax: (94-11) , sidath@doc.gov.lk THAILAND Ms. Poonsri Khulimakin, Assistant Director-General, Department of Trade Negotiations, 44/100 Thanon Nonthaburi 1, Amphoe Muang Nonthaburi, 11000, Tel: (66-2) / , Fax: (66-2) , poonsrik@dtn.go.th

3 VIETNAM Ms. Nguyen Thi Nhieu, Head of Research and Training Management Department, Viet Nam Institute for Trade, Tel: (84-4) , SPEAKERS Ms. Dariel A. De Sousa, Institute for International Business, Economics & Law, The University of Adelaide, Australia, 5005, Tel: (61-8) , Fax: (61-8) , Mr. Yang Zerui, Researcher, China Institute of International Studies, China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation, Beijing, China, Tel: (86-10) , Mr. Biman Chand Prasad, Associate Professor of Economics, Head of School of Economics and Component Manager, Employment and Labour Market Studies Programme, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, Tel: (679) , Fax: (679) , Mr. Sachin Chaturvedi, Fellow, Research and Information System for the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries, New Delhi , India, Fax: (91-11) , Mr. Dedi Budian Hakim, Senior Researcher, Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Bogor Agricultural University, Kampus Darmaga, Bogor, Indonesia, 16680, Tel and Fax: (82-251) , Mr. William James, Senior International Economist, Nathan Associates, Inc, JI Tanah Abang III, 23-27, Jakarta, Indonesia, Mr. John Gilbert, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Utah State University, Loan, Utah, United States of America, Tel: (435) , Fax: (435) , Mr. Florian Alburo, Professor, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezan City, Philippines, RESOURCE PERSONS Mr. Parmod Achary, General Manager, Development Services Fiji Islands Revenue and Customs Authority, Suva, Fiji, Tel: (679) , Fax: (679) , Ms. Lundaa Odonchimeng, Assistant to Chairman of Mongolia National Chamber of Commerce & Industry (MNCCI), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Tel: (976-11) , Mr. Parakrama Dissanayake, Chairman, Aitken Spence Shipping Ltd, Sri Lanka, Mr. Takashi Matsumoto, Head, WCO Asian Pacific Regional Office for Capacity Building, e- mail:

4 Mr. Nilsuwan Leelarasamee, Non-Tariff Barriers and Rules of Origin Committee (ASEAN), The Federation of Thai Industries, Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, Bangkok,, e- mail: OBSERVER Ms. Anita Sims, Staffing and Development Officer, Citibank, Brussels, Belgium, Mr. Esmaeil Tekeyh Sadat, Counsellor and Deputy Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Bangkok, Mr. Santi Chaisrisawatsuk, Director, Centre of International Economic and Development Studies, School of Development Economics, National Institute of Development Administration,118 Seri Thai Road, Bangkapi, Bangkok 10240,, Tel (66-2) , Fax: (66-2) , E- mail: Ms. Urai Cherugchau, Royal Thai Customs, Suthornkosa Road, Khlong Toey, Bangkok 10100, Mr. Chaiyut Kumkun, Royal Thai Customs, Suthornkosa Road, Khlong Toey, Bangkok 10100, Ms. Keeta Serbklin, Royal Thai Customs, Suthornkosa Road, Khlong Toey, Bangkok 10100, Ms. Apinya Tunyachea, Royal Thai Customs, Suthornkosa Road, Khlong Toey, Bangkok 10100, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION Ms. Lingling Ding, Senior Regional Economist, Resident Mission, Asian Development Bank, 23 rd Floor, The Offices at Central World, 999/9 Rama 1 Road, Wangmai, Pathumwan, Bangkok, 10330,, Tel: (66-2) , Fax: (66-2) , dingl@adb.org

5 UN BODIES United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Mr. Swarnim Wagle, Programme Specialist, UNDP Regional Centre in Colombo, 148 Vauxhall Street, Colombo 2, Sri Lanka, Mr. Sven Callebault, Regional Expert TrainForTrade Trade Programme, ESCAP SECRETARIAT Mr. Xuan Zengpei Mr. Barry Cable Ms. Tiziana Bonapace Mr. Noordin Azhari Ms. Mia Mikic Mr. Yann Duval Ms. Tavitra Ruyaphorn Director, Trade and Director, Transport and Tourism Division Chief, Trade Policy Section, Trade and, Chief, Trade Efficiency and Facilitation Section, Trade and Economic Affairs Officer, Trade Policy Section, Trade and Economic Affairs Officer, Trade Policy Section, Trade and ARTNeT Project Assistant, Trade Policy Section, Trade and

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