Maung Maung Thein Pe
Chairman
He established his own company, and operated the logging services from 1989 to 1996. He has acquired bids as a timber representative for Indian, Hong Kong, Singapore, and China s’ Companies, in Myanmar timber Enterprise from 1997 to 2000. Since 2001, he has been working on environmental conservation. In 2006, after he established an environmental conservation NGO for, setting up of Community Forestry, reforestation, and conservation of mangroves and forests. He has been a Chairman of the Environmental Conservation Working Group at Myanmar National NGO Network, which was set up in 2008, and he has worked there for four years.
In 2009, he collaborated with the Faculty of Fisheries of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, to conduct Freshwater fisheries research in five Southeast Asian countries. Since 2010, he has been working with the Braveheart Foundation for, the ethnic rights and regional development in cooperation with the Ministers of Ethnic Affairs, ethnic customary land ownership right, legal services of vacant land law, awareness of Farmland law, and activities for the child rights.
Since 2016, he has served as a Chairman of the Braveheart Foundation for Civil Rights. From 2017 to now, he is a national level member of the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade -voluntary Partnership Agreement (FLEGT-VPA) which is cooperated with the Government of Myanmar and the European Union, and is also working as a Team Leader in (FLEGT-VPA), Yangon Region.
