New Riparian Chief Executive Officer Begins Three-year Tenure Today

He also served as Team Leader of the former Basin Development Plan Programme at the MRC Secretariat from 2012 to 2016 where he led a team of riparian professional staff, support staff, international advisors and consultants that implemented a USD 14 million programme. His work has been recognized with several global and regional leadership awards or nominations, including the World Economic Forum and French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He is a graduate of Australian National University with a Bachelor of International Relations, Commerce and Finance, a Master of Philosophy in Political Science and a Doctorate in Political and Economic Development both obtained from the City University of New York. He is the co-author of two books, River Basin Organizations in Water Diplomacy, and Small Countries, Big Diplomacy, as well as several articles on water diplomacy and international relations, about the Mekong, ASEAN and UN affairs.

Dr Anoulak is married with a daughter and son. He succeeds the second riparian CEO, Dr An Pich Hatda, a Cambodian national, whose term ended last week.

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The Mekong River Commission is an intergovernmental organization established in 1995 for regional dialogue and cooperation in the Lower Mekong River Basin. Based on the Mekong Agreement between Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam, the Commission serves as a regional platform for water diplomacy as well as a knowledge hub of water resources management for the sustainable development of the region.

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