Geoff is an Architect and Partner with Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, based in Bath UK. He takes a leading role in the practice’s heritage, creative re-use and regeneration work. Geoff is a member of Historic England’s Historic Places Panel, and Chairman of the Fabric Advisory Committee for Exeter Cathedral. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of the West of England, and a visiting lecturer at several universities including Bath, Oxford, University College London and Harvard. Geoff is a Winston Churchill Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Lethaby Scholar of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. His recent projects include the oldest iron-framed buildings in the world at Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings for Historic England, and the major renovation of Bath Abbey. Previous schemes include projects for the Ashmolean Museum, National Museums Liverpool, Windsor Castle, and the regeneration of Middleport Pottery. Internationally, his work includes projects for the New York Life Insurance Company, National Museums Ireland, and supporting the Turquoise Mountain foundation in heritage-led regeneration projects in Yangon, Jordan and Afghanistan.

Melani Oliver is a proven high achiever with considerable experience working at a senior level across a broad range of organisations, (local government, INGOs, NGO's ,Start Ups, national government and charities) in the UK and abroad. Melani has developed a range of services and solutions as well as successfully transforming services improving on poor performance and stretching well performing services and businesses to do even better. She has also led large and small organisational mergers.

Melani is particularly interested in how communities can inform, shape and develop solutions. As the UK Director of Innovation in Local Government for NESTA she supported local authorities in becoming more innovative in finding solutions to the big challenges they face, leading on two key pieces of work : the Creative Councils Programme and the State of Innovation in Wales. Melani also developed and delivered a UK wide programme "Design in Public Services" for the Design Council.

Through her consultancy service, Melani has worked with a range of local authorities primarily focused on understanding how design thinking and innovation can radically transform local government.

Melani specialises in radical efficiency and innovation; service redesign; management of teams and individuals as well as partnership working, community engagement and adult education. She is a trained peer reviewer for children's safeguarding. 

In 2016 Melani worked as a volunteer in Myanmar, providing organisational development advice and coaching to help civil society advocate for democracy. Since then she has been an orgainsational development coach to Doh Eain's leaders and staff.

Mr. Martyn Sawyer joined the group in 1985 as Assistant Manager of Peninsula Clubs and Consultancy Services and was appointed as Group General Manager, Properties and Clubs in 1999. As the Group Director, Properties, he is responsible for the group’s non-hotel properties. 

Graham Marshall is a senior leader in For-Profit property development and Profit-for Purpose social and environmental enterprises. As a senior executive at the mission-driven not-for-profit National Affordable Housing Consortium he is engaged in delivery of affordable housing in Australia, using creative solutions that combine his formal qualifications in Architecture, Economics and Finance. Last year he delivered $45m AUD worth of new affordable apartments in Melbourne, Australia.

For the ten years previous as a highly experienced property development manager Graham was Executive General Manager for the State of Queensland for AVJennings, one of the most recognised housing brands in Australia, listed on the Australian and Singapore securities exchanges (ASX, SGX). Previously he held senior roles at some of Australia’s most awarded development companies including Bovis/Lend Lease where he was responsible for residential, commercial, retail and infrastructure sectors, having created over 6,000 new residential properties and managing multi award-winning projects such as Noosa Waters and Pacific Harbour.

As a result of his innovative work bringing environmental solutions to property development projects he was invited by the Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) to be a founding member of the national board of EnviroDevelopment® where he has participated in independent certification of 145 projects through the scientifically based sustainability tool, encompassing water, energy, materials, waste community and ecosystems.  Graham has a Distinguished Service Award from the UDIA.

After one of his projects won the Prime Minister’s Award for incorporating a roost for endangered migratory birds, he was invited by the Director General of the Department of Environment to become a founding member of the Queensland Trust for Nature.  In 2018 after 14 years he retired as Trustee having made a strong contribution to the Trust’s annual turnover increasing to $1.5m AUD pa and assets of $9m AUD.  During this term the Trust protected over 100,000ha of Queensland’s natural heritage, preserving habitat for one quarter of Queensland’s threatened species, most significantly including Koalas in SE Queensland, Southern Cassowary on Queensland’s tropical coast, and the Australian Flatback Turtle off the Great Barrier Reef.  

Donovan Rypkema is president of Heritage Strategies International. Working at the nexus of heritage conservation and economic development, Donovan has undertaken assignments in more than 50 countries. Clients of HSI have included the World Bank, the European Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Council of Europe, and UNDP. Donavan is a member of the Board of Directors of Global Urban Development, a member of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on the Economics of Conservation, a former member of the Senior Advisory Board of the Global Heritage Fund, and currently serves on the Real Estate Market Advisory Committee of the UN Economic Commission for Europe.

He holds a Master’s degree in Historic Preservation from Columbia University. He teaches a graduate course in preservation economics at the University of Pennsylvania where he received the Perkins Award for Distinguished Teaching. In 2012 Rypkema received the Crowninshield Award from the National Trust, the highest preservation honor and awarded for lifetime contribution to historic preservation in the United States.

Beverley is an architect whose expertise lies in resilient rural & urban development in an international context, and in the conservation of historic buildings. She has been involved in various aspects of sustainable building & infrastructure projects throughout Asia & Africa. Her project process has focused on community engagement, participatory design and working with local stakeholders. Bev is particularly passionate about low-tech sustainable interventions.

Has over 38 years-experience in architecture, urban planning and design in Europe, Africa, South East Asia and South Asia. 

Understanding ‘place’ is the essence of all sustainable and meaning-full urban interventions that aim to create resilient, inclusive, equitable urban environments and improve live-ability in rapidly urbanising cities.

Each city is unique and faces a different set of economic, political, climatic, cultural and historical issues and opportunities. Our primary aim must be to “make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”. 

Christopher’s professional experience has developed the expertise and the tools to be able to address these existential challenges, requiring an understanding of strategic urban governance, climate resilient investment tools in infrastructure and services, tools for resource and land efficient planning and more pragmatically, on the ground initiatives for the integration of nature-based solutions in the planning of urban development.

Christopher has worked in private practice – realising architectural projects for repurposing heritage buildings, housing, educational facilities and hospitality, integrating climate resilient  measures and as a technical expert with funding institutions (ADB UCCRTF/ DFID CIG, GIZ and WB) in the building of finance tools to test urban regeneration models with climate resilient measures integrating nature based solutions in infrastructure, public realm and adaptive re use and retrofitting of building for climate resilience.

Aung Soe Myint was born in Rangoon(now Yangon),studied architecture at the Yangon Institute of Technology.He designed most of the buildings by using natural materials.One of his projects on adaptive reuse is collecting various old village houses from different places and converted into resort at new location in 2010.He enjoys his life to learning,researching and practicing his profession.He is living in Yangon.

Dr. Kyaw Moe Tun completed his undergraduate education at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and Oxford University, and received his PhD in chemistry at Yale University. The transformative liberal arts and sciences education that he received abroad challenged him to find deeper meaning behind his actions. This notion has informed much of his ensuing work. He came back to Myanmar in 2014 to dedicate his life to the development of his native country. As a young social entrepreneur with a dedicated mission to create the next generation of responsible and competent leaders for Myanmar, he believes that empowering the youth is the most rewarding investment that a country can make to safeguard its sustainable future. He believes that a liberal arts and sciences education has the transformative power to develop the types of innovative, adaptable leaders to address fast-changing sociopolitical trends and industrial disruptions seen worldwide.

With this mission in mind, Dr. Kyaw Moe Tun established a well-regarded school known as Parami Institute in early 2017. The Institute has been providing high quality and innovative liberal education programs to young Myanmar college graduates who want to take on challenges facing Myanmar. He raised millions of dollars from local and international philanthropists to transform the institute into a private non-profit residential degree-granting university that would create next-generation leaders for Myanmar, the plan of which was curtailed by the military coup on February 1, 2021. In order to meet the growing educational needs of the country amidst the crisis, he quickly pivoted to incorporate Parami University as a private non-profit online synchronous university licensed by the Higher Education Licensure Commission, Washington D.C., to begin offering Associate and Bachelor degree programs in the fall of 2022 to students in Myanmar and other areas under authoritarian control. 

Andy Nilsen’s career has been dedicated to empowering communities, particularly young people across Australia, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

As the Creator and Global Director of Shift at Save the Children International, Andy successfully expanded his participatory campaign accelerator model from a pilot in Myanmar, to over 24 countries. Focused on empowering youth to bring about meaningful change in their communities, Shift provides a gateway of opportunity for established youth-led groups to develop and implement campaigns tackling a diverse range of social and environmental issues - from girls’ safety to sustainable cities and LGBTIQ+ rights.

Prior to this, Andy served as the Director of Advocacy, Campaigns, Communications & Media for Save the Children in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. He has led award-winning campaigns like "Mother's Milk is All You Need," focused on increasing the rights of breastfeeding mothers, as well as campaigns to end corporal punishment. He navigated SCI through complex crises such as the Rohingya refugee situation, COVID-19 outbreak and the 2021 Myanmar Military Coup. Andy also led research into the impact of social media in Myanmar’s conflict affected regions. Andy is a trained media specialist and began his career in politics.

Yee Mon brings over a decade of executive leadership experience in Human Resources with international organizations. She has a proven track record of successfully leading high performing HR teams who have made significant contributions to achieving organizational objectives.

The founder of GIFT-Ed, Yee Mon is driven by the goal of creating better workplace communities. She believes that everyone is GIFT-Ed, possessing the potential to succeed in any chosen field when placed in the right environment. Yee Mon is extremely passionate about facilitating learning and growth of individuals and organizations.

With expertise in global HR practices, business competence and strong interpersonal skills, Yee Mon helps bring the best out of people and helps businesses win the market!

Meet Ye Lin Aung (Leon), a dynamic professional with a versatile marketing, design, and technology background. As one of the Founders of BEYOND 360 Marketing Technology Firm, Ye Lin Aung has been instrumental in establishing and steering the company towards unprecedented success. His strategic acumen and innovative approach recently earned BEYOND 360 global recognition with the prestigious Campaign Asia Award and HubSpost Gold Partnership Award, a testament to his unwavering commitment to success. 

Prior to founding BEYOND 360, Ye Lin Aung demonstrated his creative prowess as the Creative Director at HUAWEI and as a Creative Designer at TODAY Ogilvy. With a solid educational foundation, Ye Lin Aung holds dual degrees in Architecture and Communication Design from Roger Williams University, complemented by a Diploma in Graphic Design from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. This unique blend of academic achievements underpins his interdisciplinary approach to problem-solving and creativity. Ye Lin Aung’s role as the founder of BEYOND 360 reflects a commitment to innovation, strategic thinking, and a deep understanding of the convergence between technology and design, making him a standout figure in the industry.

With her 25 years plus experience in the marketing industry and being an entrepreneur, Lynn’s expertise is marketing strategy, marketing communication and marketing management and Entrepreneurship. Lynn obtained Bachelor degree in Commerce specialized in Banking and Master degree in Business Administration. Lynn is an active mother, a successful business woman, a training facilitator, a mentor and a social contributor.

Anna Livia Cullinan brings over a decade of experience in strategic leadership and business development to the advisory board. With a keen eye for innovation and a passion for driving positive change, Anna livia has a proven track record of guiding organizations towards growth and sustainability. Her expertise lies in fostering creative and collaborative environments and leveraging emerging technologies to achieve strategic objectives. Anna livia is committed to making impactful contributions to the board, drawing on her diverse background in Urban Design, Community Development, Humanitarian Relief and Product Innovation. As a dedicated advocate for diversity and inclusion, she continually seeks opportunities to promote good governance, equity and representation within the business community and Public Sector.

Anna livia led many multi-donor programs, and the product development of Neighbourhood Networks and Young City Shapers at Doh Eain before moving to her current role with Creative Ireland.