Two Years After the Myanmar Coup: Regional Perspectives on Human Security

Scot Marciel (remote) is the Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. A retired diplomat, Mr. Marciel served as the U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar from March 2016 through May 2020, leading a mission of 500 employees during the difficult Rohingya crisis and a challenging time for both Myanmar’s democratic transition and the United States-Myanmar relationship. Prior to serving in Myanmar, Ambassador Marciel served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asia and the Pacific at the U.S. State Department, where he oversaw U.S. relations with Southeast Asia.

Kasit Piromya (remote) is a Thai diplomat, Democrat Party politician, and former People's Alliance for Democracy activist. He was the Foreign Minister of Thailand under Abhisit Vejjajiva from 2008 to 2011, and prior to that, served as the Thai Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Mongolia, Russia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea, Germany, Japan, and the United States.

Gautam Mukhopadhaya (remote) is the former Indian Ambassador to Myanmar, where he served from 2013 to 2016. After retiring from the Indian Foreign Service, Ambassador Mukhopadhaya joined the Centre for Policy Research as a Senior Visiting Fellow in June 2019, where he currently conducts research on issues including Myanmar, India’s Act East policy, and regional cooperation involving South and South East Asia with a focus on the North East of India.

Adelina Kamal (remote) is a humanitarian and a disaster management professional with more than a quarter-century of experience with the ASEAN Secretariat. Most recently, Adelina led the ASEAN AHA Centre as its Executive Director for almost five years. After leaving the ASEAN Secretariat in 2021, Adelina was affiliated with Singapore-based ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute as Associate Senior Fellow where she advocated for out-of-the box approaches to humanitarian crises in Myanmar. She has also written and advocated on issues such as localizing humanitarian action and managing crises.

Thomas Daniel (remote) is a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy and Security Studies programme at the International Institute of Strategic Studies (ISIS) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His interests lie in the strategic-security challenges of Southeast Asia, including the impacts of major power dynamics on ASEAN. He writes and speaks of these issues in local and regional forums and has commented on them in local and international media.

Yasunobu Sato (in-person) is a special advisor at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, a Professor at Waseda University, and the former Director of the Research Center for Sustainable Peace at The University of Tokyo. Dr. Sato has worked for refugee protection, peace keeping/building and law & judicial reform as a legal official with a variety of international organizations including: UNHCR as legal officer in Australia, UNTAC as human rights officer in Cambodia and EBRD as counsel in London. His main area of focus is human security in Myanmar and Southeast Asia.

Teppei Kasai (in-person) is a Program Officer for the Asia Division of Human Rights Watch based in Tokyo, Japan. He primarily works to encourage the Japanese government to take a more human-rights based foreign policy towards countries including but not limited to Cambodia and Myanmar. He also works on domestic issues involving women's rights, and violence and harassment in the workplace. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Teppei was a multimedia journalist for Reuters, covering a wide range of news including the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, relative poverty among children in Japan, and the murder of two Japanese nationals by ISIS. Teppei studied at Waseda University and the University of California Berkeley, and is fluent in Japanese and English.