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Soudalath Phasavath
Office Manager
Soudalath started work with WCS Lao PDR in 2008 as an Administration Assistant and has since been promoted to Office Manager for the country program. Soudalath studied English for three years at Lao-America College and has undertaken a further English course at Vientiane College and an Administration course at TACDO Centre.
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Sounantha Bouxakittilath
Biodiversity Officer
Sounantha Boutxakittilath graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from the National University of Laos after which she was a teacher of biology, biodiversity, and ecology at the University of Savannakhet. She then joined the WCS Savannakhet Landscape Program in 2020 as the Landscapes Biodiversity officer. Sounantha grew up in the heart of the Xe Champhone wetlands which has driven a lifelong passion for the wetlands birds, turtles, and critically endangered crocodiles, she believes that with increased community engagement and governance the wetlands biodiversity will greatly benefit.
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Sulisak Keosonexay
Livelihood program officer
Mr. Sulisak KEOSONEXAY graduated from the faculty of forestry, department of eco-tourism at the Dongdok University of Laos in 2017 and has been working for Wildlife Conservation Society ( WCS ) since 2019 on Livelihood improvement base in Nam Et-Phou Louey, National park.
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Thippachanh Philavong
Accounting Manager
Thippachanh Philavong has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business and Administration from Comcenter College, Laos and a Certificate as a Lao Certified Public Accountant from the Accounting Department of the Lao Ministry of Finance. She worked at Ernst and Young from 2005 to 2013 before moving to WCS in September 2015 as Accounting Manager. Her role is the monitoring and managing of expenditure, reporting, audits and quality control, and staff administration.
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vithaya sithinarongsy
Administrative Assistant
Vithaya Sithinarongsy graduated with a Bachelor of finance Degree from Donkhamxang after which he volunteered for the Savannakhet Provincial Agriculture and Forestry office’s Protected Area and Forest Protection Management Division. Vithaya joined the WCS Lao PDR Savannakhet team in 2020 as the program’s Driver and Administration assistant, a role which sees him assisting on many tasks from inputting fisheries sample data to measuring crocodile hatchlings, Vitaya helps the Savannakhet Team in many ways.
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Vongsavanh Douangchantha
Community Engagement Officer
joined WCS Lao PDR Savannakhet Landscape team in 2020 as the Community Engagement Officer. Vongsavanh received a Bachelor degree in Agriculture and Forestry from Dongkhamchang Agricultural and Forestry Technical College. His work in community livelihood engagement started in his own village, where he founded and led a mushroom production co-operative for several years after graduation. He has worked for numerous other rural livelihood projects leading work on food security, participatory land-use and livelihoods planning, WASH, and other topics. Vongsavanh believes “that it is important to raise awareness amongst communities on the benefits of natural resource management and biodiversity conservation to strengthen interest in more sustainable alternative income sources, leading to both improved livelihoods and local support for nature conservation”.
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