2020 Organising Committee
Joshua Sim
Chief Coordinator
Joshua is a 2nd year Economics student from Singapore. His role is to manage the different aspects of the conference to ensure they all work together as one cohesive unit to deliver a successful experience, while allowing individuals to shine in their own workspace. He sees the conference as a valuable opportunity to challenge one’s cultural perspectives by meeting people from other SEA regions.
Sabrina Jalil
Co-Chief Coordinator
Sabrina Jalil is a penultimate year BSc Economics student. Sabrina has a diverse job scope spanning all aspects of the conference, and she enjoys the fact that no two tasks are ever the same. Outside of uni, she enjoys cooking with friends and card games.
Ang Kai Ren
Secretary
Kai Ren is a 2nd year Politics and International Studies student from Singapore. He loves good food, time with friends, and is always up for a game of Mahjong. Having lived in the SEA region all his life, he hopes to learn more about the region through organising this conference, and meet more people from around the world in the process of doing so.
Anindita Batubara
External Relations Coordinator
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Archwin Intharasombat
Speakers Executive
Byte is a 2nd year GSD and Business student from Thailand. His role involves leading the team in sourcing, selecting, and securing the participation of a diverse profile of speakers for WAC 2020. He’s interested in exploring issues surrounding sustainability, including climate change, energy security, and wealth inequality. Some people consider his passion for football is on a par with religious devotion.
Puttachat Sinted
Embassies Executive
Putthachat (Gla) is a 2nd year chemist from Thailand. Liaising with ASEAN embassies in London is his main job. Also, he’s kind of a representative of the conference to make the collaboration between embassy people and the WAC go smoothly. He loves reviewing airlines he has flown. You might often see the posts on his Facebook (and sometimes a video on YouTube!).
Isobel James
Speakers Associate
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Rath Daravuth Sithy
Speakers Associate
Born and raised in Cambodia, Daravuth is currently a postgraduate student pursuing an MA in Public Policy at Warwick. His role revolves around contacting speakers for the conference. Despite his slow progress towards maturity, Daravuth always enjoy a healthy coffee conversation on controversial Netflix series, Naruto, Southeast Asian cuisines, and dystopian novels. He spends most of his free time travelling to distant areas to discover its known and unknown histories.
Osmin Phumeesith
Speakers Associate
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Richard Lai
Speakers Associate
Richard/Ricky is a 3rd year PPE student from Malaysia. His role involves creating conference content, sourcing speakers and managing speakers’ logistics. He is interested in the energy sector and has consulted both established corporations and start-ups within the industry. He is currently adjusting to the life of a responsible adulthood and therefore spends most of his time meal-prepping, exploring health products and doing chores.
Gloria Dang
Embassies Associate
Gloria is a 2nd year PAIS student from Vietnam. Outside of all the work and readings for politics, Gloria loves chill evenings with her friends, probably with some cocktails to finish up the night. She is also a meditation lover and poet wannabe.
Thum Chiean Tien
Embassies Associate
Better known as Euan, Chiean Tien is a 1st year Economics student from Malaysia. He is passionate about community outreach efforts and often involves himself with charity work back home. Euan also loves budget travelling, which may be why you hardly see him during the weekends. He aspires to share the beauty of the places he visited through photographs and thus, updating his Instagram (@euanthum) with aesthetic feeds became a priority.
Coral Koh-Reuben
Embassies Associate
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Lee Cheong Kiat
Events Coordinator
Cheong Kiat is a 2nd year PPE undergraduate from Singapore. His main responsibilities are centered on planning and executing the operational aspects of all WAC 2020 events building up to, and including the main conference. The epitome of restlessness, Cheong Kiat can regularly be found making making plans to escape from Coventry so if you ever are looking for an itinerary for a short getaway, be sure to hit him up.
Nadya Goh
Operations Executive
Nadya is a 2nd year EPAIS student from Singapore. Her role involves working with the operations team to ensure the smooth running of events. She is up for any adventure you throw at her, be it climbing the 3 highest peaks in the UK within 72 hours or swimming with dolphins in the country Down Under.
Fabiola Susilo
Operations Associate
Fabiola is a 2nd year PPE student from Singapore. When not involved in Warwick ASEAN Conference, her favourite thing to do in her spare time is to try out new restaurants & look up recipes but never actually attempting to make it.
Vu Luu
Operations Associate
Vu is a 1st year from Vietnam, currently studying Politics, Philosophy and Law. As a member of the operations team, he helps the team plan and oversee facility management, ensuring the smooth running of the conference, providing his manpower where necessary and sarcastic jokes where possible. In his freetime, he enjoys the simple things in life such as, football with the boys, going out with the boys and also, travelling the world.
Si Qi Tan
Operations Associate
Si Qi is a 1st year PAIS student from Singapore. As an avid penguin lover, she owns 7 soft toy penguins of various shapes and sizes. Just like how penguins hang out in colonies, Si Qi enjoys the company of her friends and is always open to reach out to people from different walks of life. In her free time, Si Qi takes interest in running the behind the scenes of events, hence motivating her to be part of the operations team for WAC 2020.
Yanisa Sibunruang
Operations Associate
Mill is a 1st year International Management student from Thailand. Her role involves working with the team members in organizing and assure that events run as planned. In her spare time, she enjoys playing badminton and meeting new people.
Ply Songwatana
Operations Associate
Ply is a 1st year Management student from Thailand. He specialises on managing the internal structure of WAC with his team to make sure the events run in the best possible way. If you are looking for someone who is responsible, good looking, polite, bright, broad-minded, charming, communicative, decisive, easy going, generous, hard working, helpful, honest, considerate, efficient, deligent, organised , proactive and competent do think of him first.
Ying Xuan Chong
Operations Associate
Ying Xuan, or Xuanie, is a 1st year Law student from Malaysia. She possesses the ability to literally chat your ears off, especially if you rope her into conversations about her interests. Contrary to what this may indicate, Xuanie is perpetually stuck at the ‘dangerously low’ side of the energy spectrum, and loves to sleep in her free time; she could literally fall asleep anywhere. If she’s not at classes or events, you’ll likely find her in the kitchen.
Ying Yun To
Operations Associate
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Phoom Kuljanyavivat
Finance Coordinator
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Quynh Nguyen
Corporate Relations Executive
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Darin Hansakul
Corporate Relations Associate
Darin is a 1st year Economics student from Thailand. While studying is important, you will never find her too far away from the kitchen. Be it simple comfort foods to bubble tea and cocktail. Anything can be cooked up if hunger levels are high enough.
Abhay Anam
Corporate Relations Associate
Abhay is a first year Management with Finance student from Malaysia. His role involves researching and contacting potential sponsors suitable to WAC through events and online platforms. In his spare time, he enjoys playing chess and cricket and is a huge airplane and car fanatic too.
Jin Shien Tan
Corporate Relations Associate
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Chantelle Wong
Corporate Relations Associate
Chantelle is a Master’s student from Malaysia. She is experienced in handling and communicating with clients from her previous work experience and has built strong lasting relationships. Her current role for WAC 2020 involves liasing with companies from various industries and securing sponsorships. Aside from working on her thesis and being a coffee addict, she also enjoys dancing.
Sambhaviy Kumaresan
Outreach Coordinator
Sambhaviy is a second-year Global Sustainable Development undergraduate from Malaysia. She coordinates events and establishes relationships with external stakeholders from other universities to garner support and participation in WAC 2020. She enjoys long walks on the beach or Netflix in bed.
Rachel Nadin
Outreach Associate
Rachel is a penultimate year BSc Accounting & Finance student from Malaysia. She has varied experience in choreographing for dance and her favourite extra-curricular activities are performing and playing netball.
Annika Sirikulthada
Outreach Associate
Annika is a first year Politics and International Studies Student from Thailand. Her role includes bridging the gap between the Warwick ASEAN society and other ASEAN organizations in the UK. She enjoys socializing, meeting new people and engaging in charity work.
Abby Chen
Outreach Associate
Abby is a 1st year PPE student from Singapore. She is part of the outreach team, which is responsible for spreading awareness of WAC. She usually spends her downtime doing random things with her flatmates like chatting, gymming, or doing their nightly stretching routine.
Natnijit Athavipach
Outreach Associate
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Alicia Lukman
Public Relations Coordinator
Alicia is a 2nd year PPE student from Indonesia. Her role involves creating a marketing strategy, leading content creation, and finding media partners for WAC 2020.When she’s free (which is so rare it’s a worthy cause for celebration), you can find her with a glass of wine, trying to convince you to subscribe to maddening ideas. You may relent due to sheer confusion.
Matthew Neo
Publications Executive
Matthew is a 2nd year PPE student from Singapore. His role revolves around the organisation and delegation of tasks pertaining to content creation. In his free time, he enjoys playing and watching sport, jamming to indie music and trying out new Asian recipes (99.9% of which involve rice).
Sheralyn Loh
Marketing & Media Executive
Sheralyn is a Writing MA student from Singapore. On top of writing everything from lifestyle articles to sci-fi fantasy, she also dabbles in other forms of creative expression including crafts, theatre and music.
Braedie Atkins
Publications Associate
Braedie is a 2nd year PAIS student from Essex. Her role involves proposing pitches on the Facebook writer’s group, writing articles that are published on the WAC website, and promoting content on social media. In her spare time she writes for The Boar, Warwick Globus, Perspectives Magazine, as well as for her own blog – along with debating current affairs with her three year old baby brother, of course!
Denise Tan
Publications Associate
Denise is a 1st year International Management student who spends her waking hours plotting weekend escapes from Warwick. Her writing is mostly limited to rambly diary entries but she hopes to find the words to discuss matters relating to education and food security, both of which she cares about greatly.
Ting Fang Chu
Publications Associate
Ting Fang is a first year Politics and International Studies student from Singapore. Ting Fang has a wide range of hobbies, from playing the violin to going for walks. She’s always up for a chat, so feel free to approach her for anything!
Benedict Choong
Publications Associate
Benedict is a PAIS postgraduate (Masters) from Singapore, and is a member of the Publications team. He loves travelling, and stumbling upon tasty, local fare brings him serendipitous joy. Or is it his desire for scrumptious delicacies that compel him to travel? He screams, for he does not know.
Puangkorn Trirat
Marketing & Media Associate
Ning is doing a Masters in Marketing and Strategy. She would apply what she has learned into everything she takes part in her role. She is motivated to try her best to make WAC2020 another event to remember for everyone! She loves to travel, take photos, and cook (besides cooking, eating is her favourite thing to do too).
Kwan Long Ching
Marketing & Media Associate
Sunny is a 1st year law student from Hong Kong. He is just a typical boy who dreams big. He believes the universe is built by stories but not atoms. He is also passionate about coffee (only black coffee). You can expect a three hour lecture from him talking about the beans!
Iffah Yusof
Marketing & Media Associate
Iffah is a 2nd year Psychcology student from Singapore. She has a passion for video editing, design, marketing and cats! De-stressing for her involves exercising, spending time with friends and making sure the house always smells like freshly baked cookies.