Countries represented among the 22 emerging leaders who have attended UC Beahrs ELP under Foundation auspices include Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Mongolia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.
Syeda Rizwana Hasan of the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA), whose participation in 2003 was funded in part by the Foundation, was a 2007 recipient of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize. In 2010, an additional grant from The Asia Foundation enabled Ms. Hasan to participate as a featured speaker in the UC Beahrs ELP 10th Anniversary Workshop. The Foundation also funded the participation of seven of its UC Beahrs ELP alumni in the anniversary program. This was followed by a Foundation-organized study tour on water resource management and related environmental policy issues in the Northwest.
Participants in the Summer 2012 Beahrs ELP course:
Mr. Abdul Wali Modaqiq - Afghanistan
Deputy Director General, Policy and International Affairs
National Environmental Protection Agency, Kabul
Mr. Vuthy Ly - Cambodia
Deputy Director, Community Fisheries Development Department
Fisheries Administration, Ministry of Agriculture, Phnom Penh
Mr. Norman Jiwan - Indonesia
Head of Mitigation Department
Sawit Watch, Jawat Barat
Mr. Dang Quang Minh - Vietnam
Deputy Director
Disaster Management Center, Hanoi
Mr. Vo Chi Tien - Vietnam
Head of Consultancy
Center for Rural Development, Hue City