List of Invitees to the Asia Deep Dive Preparatory Workshop on the Commons and Economics

List of Invitees to the Asia Deep Dive preparatory workshop on the commons and economics:

1) Roberto Verzola, Philippine economist, agri-activist, green party, studies abundance/scarcity issues and has a particular focus on both natural and digital commons;

2) Isaac Mao, sharing and digital commons activist in China,

3) Mr. Luo Shihong, from Guizhou Institute of Highland Development (GIHD), NGO activist affiliated with Chengdu Shuguang Community Development Capacity Building Center ; a natural resource commoner from China

4) Pablo Solon, Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, from Bangkok

5) Asst. Prof. Surat Horachaikul is a lecturer in the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University and Director of the School for Wellbeing Studies and Research

6) Ms. Soma Parthasarathy is a Research Scholar at Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and commons scholar who studies women and subsistence

6b) Mr. Shiv Visvanathan, author at Common Voices journal, a crucial magazine with commons insights in India ; Shiv Visvanathan is senior fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. An anthropologist and Human Rights researcher his work has explored the question of alternatives as a dialogue between the West and India.

6c) Lawrence Liang: commons and rights scholar/activist at the Alternative Law Forum in Bangalore, India

7) Prabir Purkayashta Prabkant ; member of the People's Science Network Forum, co-author of the statement on the commons in the Porto Alegre/Rio+20 process (People Summit)

List of Invitees to the Asia Deep Dive preparatory workshop on the commons and economics:

8) Mina Ramirez: Philippino catholic social movement activist ; member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, President of the Asian Social Institute;

8-2) Marina Durano, feminist economist, Phillipines; a member of the Executive Committee of DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era)

9) Prue Taylor ; Prue Taylor is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Planning, University of Auckland, New Zealand. ; environmental ethics, law and governance; co-author Rio 1992 “Earth Charter”

10) José Ramos, Melbroune, Austrilia, author of a PhD on the nine schools of thought in the alterglobalization movement; is preparing a global documentary on commoners

11) Ramaswamy Sudarshan, Policy Advisor-Legal Reform and Justice at UNDP Asia-Pacific Regional Centre

12) Hendro Sangkoyo, cofounder and principal researcher at the School of Democratic Economics