U Aung Thant Zin - Director

Biography :

CEO, Myanmar Environment Rehabilitation-Conservation Network (MERN) and previously Fund Manager, obtaining and managing funding from DFID, SIDA, UNDP, UNEP, GITEC and Oxfam Novib.  Prior to that in senior positions with Yangon Region Forest Department, Watershed Management Division and Forest Research Institute,  involved with projects on watershed management, agroforestry, teak forest management, biogas, and developing criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management.  Prior to that as Lecturer and Assistant Registrar for Administration for Student Affairs at Myanmar Institute of Forestry.    BSc in Forestry from Myanmar University of Forestry (1991), MSc in Tropical Forestry from Faculty of Forest, Geo and Hydro Science, Technological University – Dresden, Germany (2000). MERN and WCS has strong relationship in terms of  biodiversity conservation in Myanmar since the program was started.