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Programme Specialist
Duration: 12 Months (October 2006-September 2007)
Duty Station: UNEP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand
United Nations Environment Programme Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (UNEP ROAP) provides leadership and encourages partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples in Asia and the Pacific to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
AITAA announces activities
AIT Prominent Alumni Lecture Series - The AIT Alumni Association (AITAA) and Alumni Relations Unit (ARU) will organize a Prominent Alumni Lecture Series in which an alumna of AIT will deliver a lecture on his/her expertise on 31 October 2006.
AITAA 35th Governing Board Meeting - AITAA Mother Chapter and AITAA Lao P.D.R. Chapter will jointly organize the 35th Governing Board Meeting (GBM) on 9-11 December 2006 in Vientiane, Lao.
Workshop on bio-innovations in agriculture and health conducted in November
With support from the International Development Research Centre, AIT is organizing a workshop on 'Integrated Policies for Bio-innovations in Agriculture and Health in Asia' on 13-15 November 2006. The workshop is coordinated by Prof.
Electricity pricing workshop takes place 1-3 November
Electric Power System Management in the Energy field of study is organizing a training workshop on 'Electricity Pricing and Risk Management' during 1-3 November 2006 at the AIT Conference Center.
The training course covers the following topics: Pricing of Renewable Energy Resources; Fuel Adjustment Tariff Structure: A Case of Thailand; Generation Asset Valuation and Risk Analysis; Project Risk Management; Interrupted Energy Assessment Rate and Reliability; Improvement in Thai Power System; Very Small SPP Pricing and Policy; Renewable Portfolio Standard; Centralized Generation Scheduling in Competitive Environment; Electricity Price Regulation; Transmission and Distribution System Pricing; Integrated Resource Planning; Organization and Finance of Power Utility; Technical Visit.
Welcome Show scheduled for 23 September
The Gender and Cultural Affairs Committee of the Student Union invites students, staff and faculty members to take part in this year's Welcome Show to be held at 5 p.m. of 23 September 2006 at the AIT Conference Center (AITCC) Auditorium.
Workshop looks at sustainable development in Thailand
A special one-day workshop on 'Sustainable Development in Thailand and Relationship with other Asian Countries' will be conducted by Dr. Kan-ichiro Matsumura.
The workshop will be held from 9 am to 5 pm, Thursday, 20 September 2006, at room B-144 in AIT Conference Center.
Student Union second General Assembly meeting 11 September
The Student Union is organizing the second General Assembly Meeting on Monday, 11 September 2006, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Milton Bender Conference Room. Other GA members who still have not yet registered please register with the Student Union Office or send details to aitsu@ait.
SU election results reported
The Election Committee of AIT's Student Union announced the result of the general election held on 7 September 2006 for the position of vice president for the August 2006 semester. The election came out that Mr. R.M.U.S.K. Rathnayake (Udaya) from Sri Lanka was elected with 277 votes.
From left: Mr. Sanjeev Jayasinghe, Head-ERCO; Prof. Dr. Ahris Yaakup, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning; Dr. Ahmad Nazri B. Muhamad Ludin, Deputy Dean and Dr. Rafee Majid, Lecturer, Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning and Master Students form UTM
Malaysia delegation explores collaboration
A delegation from Universiti Tecknologi Malaysia (UTM) visited AIT on 29 August 2006. The purpose of the visit was to learn more about AIT and to seek opportunities for collaboration with AIT in student/faculty exchanges, joint research projects and faculty and staff development through both degree programs and AIT Extension.
Conference calls for papers
The University Support to Environmental Planning and Management project (USEPAM http://www.usepam.ait.ac.th)
at Regional and Rural Development Program, School of Environment, Resources and Development will organize a regional conference on 'Environmental Planning and Management in Southeast Asian Countries' in Hanoi, Vietnam, during 6-8 March 2007.
The specific objectives of the conference are: 1) to facilitate the exchange of experiences gained in and lessons learned from regionally coordinated capacity building projects implemented for strengthening multidisciplinary curricula, outreach activities and applied research capacity in the area of environmental planning and management amongst academicians, policymakers, planners and international development agencies in the region who are carrying out same or similar projects; 2) to provide a forum to researchers as well as planners and policymakers for presenting results of and methodological experiences in research projects; for sharing lessons learned through implementation of environmental management policies; for discussing the policy implications of the findings of the research projects; and for seeking policy oriented research issues.