Thiri Dawei AUNG

Dr. Thiri Da Wei Aung serves as Executive Director. She received Ph.D (Ornithology) from University of Yangon in 2012. A large part of her work is to provide leadership to BANCA (internally and externally). As the public representative of BANCA, she promote its vision, mission, values, programmes and activities. She is responsible for overall strategic planning, revenue generation, organizational development, financial management, and organizational supervision and program operations of BANCA. She worked with especially BirdLife International and governments and also collaborated with NGOs, INGOs, Universities and local communities. She is coordinator of Southern Asia with Baer’s Pochard Task Force and in updating of Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) to BirdLife International and International Union for conservation of Nature (IUCN). She has effectively contributed to updating checklist of bird species in Myanmar with Myanmar Bird and Nature Society (MBNS). She is one of the executive committee members in MBNS and Myanmar Environment Rehabilitation-conservation Network (MERN) and one of the editor members of” Shwe Phoe Kaung “bird and nature conservation magazine and Myanmar National Geographic.