SPEAKER BIO

Ms. Ohnmar Ei Ei Chaw is the Country Program Coordinator of the Australian-Asia Program to Combat Trafficking in Persons (AAPTIP) for Myanmar (Burma). Prior to this, she was the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking’s Myanmar National Coordinator. She is responsible for the overall coordination and management of AAPTIP Myanmar Country Program, which is currently the largest of six country programs in the Australian $50 million five-year AAPTIP program. She liaises closely with whole-of-government partners on issues relevant to criminal justice sector capacity building, coordination, and law and policy harmonization, and other initiatives focusing on anti-trafficking in persons at the national level and regional level especially, ASEAN Trafficking in Persons Working Group’s initiatives. She has been engaged in the fight against human trafficking for more than a decade. She started her career working on the Street and Working Children Project of World Vision Myanmar in 1997. After attaining her post-graduate study on Gender and Development in 2001, she rejoined World Vision Myanmar to lead the first Anti-Trafficking Program which involved designing and implementation of prevention activities, facilitation of the return of trafficking survivors coming back from Thailand, and advocating government for the development of anti-trafficking legislation and national policy.