CAMBODIA

Ms. Ly Srey Vyna, MD
Dr. Vyna is a member of the Sam Rainsy party (SRP) cabinet. She is currently the assistant to the Secretary General and the chief of the provincial working group of SRP. She will be running for parliament in the 2008 national elections in Cambodia.

Mr. Sovann Yim, MP
Mr. Sovann is an elected member of parliament. He is a member of the SRP Steering Committee and serves as the Treasurer of their party.

INDONESIA

Ms. Verawati
Ms. Verawati is a member of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP). She is also part of the GMNI (Indonesian Nationalist Student Movement) and a party cadre in Deputy Bureau 2 PDI Perjuangan.

JAPAN 

Mr. Joe Nakano
Mr. Nakano is member of the Democratic Party of Japan. In 1994, he worked with the Foundation for International Development and was in charge of the programs in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Philippines. He was Director of the 12^th district in Saitama and was elected member of the 43^rd Parliament in 2003.

MALAYSIA

Mr. Tan Chuan Koon
Mr. Tan is a member of the Malaysian Peoples’ Movement Party or Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (PGRM) and serves in Publicity and Information Bureau. He is currently the Press Secretary to the Minister of Energy, Water and Communications who is also the President of PGRM.

Mr. Lim Si Pin
Mr. Lim is a member of PGRM and was elected as the National Deputy Youth Chief of the Youth Movement for PGRM, a component party within the National Front of the Malaysian Government. He has participated in two national elections as Deputy Director of Operations for one of the parliamentary constituency in Malaysia. 

PHILIPPINES

Mr. Henry Anden Bacurnay, Jr.
Mr. Bacurnay is a member of the Liberal Party of the Philippines (LP). He has been elected as Provincial Board member twice in La Union province. He served as the Executive Director of the National Institute for Policy Studies, the Philippine Liberal Think Tank which administers LP’s overall program on political and civic education, political dialogue, policy research, documentation and publication. He is currently the Deputy Director for Organization and Operations of LP, managing the party’s membership and marketing.

Mr. Francisco Trinidad Sevilla, Jr.
Mr. Sevilla is the Provincial Director General of the Liberal Party’s Quezon province Chapter. He was a campaign manager for several prominent liberal legislators. Currently, he is serving as the Legislative Staff Head in the office of Congressman Rafael P. Nantes.

SINGAPORE

Mr. Yap Keng Ho
Mr. Yap is a member of the Singapore Democratic Party. He had been an activist on internet since 1996. In 2004, He found a movement known as Constitutional Amendment Campaign which focuses on political reforms towards a free Singapore. Mr. Yap takes part in Alliance for Reform and Democracy in Asia (ARDA) and World Forum for Democratization in Asia (WFDA) activities and conducts web based surveys such as Asia Democracy index.

SOUTH KOREA

Mr. Yeong Sul Kim
Mr. Kim is a member of the Uri Party, the ruling party in Korea. He was the Director of internet communication committee of the 17^th presidential election. He is currently serving as the Vice-Secretary General of their party. 

Mr. Pyong-Soo Lee
Mr. Lee is the Director of foreign relations office of Uri party. He worked as a reporter before in The Hankook llbo and Korea Times. He was also the Chief Vice-spokesman of the New Millennium Democratic party and the Uri party.

SRI LANKA

Mr. Jainudeen Cassim
Mr. Cassim is a member of the Liberal Party of Sri Lanka. He is an organizer for the Trincomalee district where he builds the party’s membership and coordinates the party lists in their area. He is also a member of the Liberal party’s National Executive Council.

Mr. Vaithlingam Shanmuganathan
Mr. Shanmuganathan is a member of the Liberal Party’s national committee and is working as an organizer for the Nuwara Eliya district in the central province of Sri Lanka. He is also the Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Workers Union.

THAILAND

LCdr. Sutham Rahong
Mr. Sutham is the Assistant to the Secretary-General of the Democrat party. He was a member of the military and was a former Member of Parliament in Samut Sakhon district.

Ms. Sirinun Senakant
Ms. Senakant has been a member of the Bangkok Committee of the Democrat Party of Thailand since 1996.  She has twice run as a MP candidate representing the Democrat Party in Bangkok.  She was an advisor to the Finance Committee in parliament from 1997 to 2000.  Prior to her work in parliament, she worked for Loxley International and Tisco Financial Company Ltd. Currently, she sits as a deputy secretary to Democrat party's Bangkok Election Committee.