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Name: Larry Proud Position: Australian Team Leader Biodata: Larry is the Australian Team Leader for CCJAP III having previously been a member of the Project Executive for Phase II. Larry has 20 years development experience in Africa, the Pacific and Asia. He was formerly a police officer and a senior public servant in Australia. His experience on development projects has all been long term and included roles such as project director, project manager, team leader and technical adviser. He looks forward to building on the excellent reputation of CCJAP I and II and further consolidating its good work in law and justice. Larry lives in Cambodia with his wife and the two youngest of his four children whom are attending a local international school. Larry enjoys photography and is a sports car enthusiast.

Name: Stephen Moore Position: Deputy Australian Team Leader and Crime Prevention & Community Safety Adviser Biodata: Stephen Moore is the deputy australian team leader and the projects full time Crime Prevention & Community Safety Adviser, and commenced working in Cambodia in 2004. Stephen has spent most of his professional career as a police officer in Western Australia. There he performed diverse tasks as an investigator, court prosecutor, and policing in remote areas. Management roles included leading the Crime Prevention Division, where he focused on improving police / community relations, and managing the Witness Security Unit which provided short and life time security measures for witnesses. Stephen has been awarded a Masters of Leadership & Management (Policing) from Charles Sturt University in Sydney and is currently studying Khmer both oral and written.

Name: Ben Schultz Position: Capacity Building and Aid Effectiveness Adviser Biodata: Ben has had over ten years experience in transitional economies in Asia, Pacific and the Middle East. This has involved technical assistance and project management in a number of sectors including justice, finance, education and agriculture. Ben has previous experience in Cambodia assisting the Prison Department, Ministry of Justice and the Project Management Unit for the Council of Legal and Judicial Reform with planning and management processes. This broad experience is complemented by a Master of Commerce (Financial Planning) from the University of Western Sydney. Along with Yumi, his Japanese partner, Ben has a long term commitment to the development of Asia and appreciates both the challenges and opportunities that Cambodia presents. Other interests include football, running, regional cuisines

Name: Chor Siek Veng Position: Project Officer-Legal and Judicial Reform Biodata: Veng has been working for CCJAP since 2003 under phase II. Before joining CCJAP, Veng worked in Kosovo with the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and in East Timor with the Independent Electoral Commission of the United Nations Transitional Authority in East Timor (UNTAET). In addition to this experience Veng spent five years with DFDL, a law firm in Cambodia. Veng graduated from the Royal University of Phnom Penh as an English-Khmer translator/interpreter in 1993 and recently he received a Master of Business Administration in Management from Preston University USA. Veng has established a good reputation in the sector for his work on management processes and is looking forward to assisting the government with furthering its reform efforts. Other interests: playing ping pong, watching TV, and reading.

Name: Sath Vuthy Position: Project Officer-Capital Works Biodata: Vuthy is a Project Officer for Capital Works Construction having joined CCJAP in 2007. Vuthy is a practicing civil engineer and a member of the Engineering Institute of Cambodia (EIC), 2002 and a member, ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organizations, 2004. He has over ten years work experience in engineering design, project budget allocation, preparing sub-project cost estimations of construction phases, material survey and cost analysis of construction elements for different organizations including; Asian Development Bank (ADB), World Bank (WB), European Union (EU) and AusAID. For the last seven years, Vuthy mostly concentrated on a community participation modality. During this period he has conducted capacity building for a School Support Committee, Contractors, Local builders and Construction Foremen. He also conducted regular random checks on construction quality assurance, joined weekly / monthly meetings to review all work progress as well as site problems. He also worked as a free land consultant for Mekong Eye Doctors (Netherland) and built Eye clinics in Kratie and Stung Treng Provinces. Other interests include learning new subjects; watching TV, sport, travelling to provinces and overseas.

Name: Nou Arun Position: Project Officer- Capital Works Biodata: Arun is the Project Officer for Capital Works (Planning & Design) who commenced work for CCJAP III in 2007. He is a professional Architect with over 10 years experience in several major international and local projects in Cambodia. Arun has previous experience working as a National Facilities Construction Consultant, with the World Bank Loan/Grant Projects - Both Flood Emergency Rehabilitation Project (FERP) & Cambodia Education Sector Support Project (CESSP). His responsibilities included the technical verification and insuring of correct support documentation that accompanies all payment requests and included random field trips to visually inspect works and ensure they met project standards. As an Architect with Belgium Technical Cooperation (BTC), he was in charge of the Design of the BETT- School Model Standard, produced all Architectural Drawings and prepared bidding documentation. He was also involved in the private sector with several International Architecture Firms (Axiom, Cochin, and G117). Arun's hobbies are visiting ancient temples and Modern Architecture.

Name: Heng Jolie Position: Senior Crime Prevention & Community Safety Coordinator Biodata: Lee commenced working in the criminal justice sector in 2003 with CCJAP as a Training Project Officer. Prior to this Lee managed his own Khmer Training School providing non Khmer students with language skills and cultural understanding of Cambodia. Lee has also worked for a variety of organisations including the Mekong River Commission and Ministry of Women's Affairs, as well as being engaged by the German Development Service and Japanese International Co-operation where he provided language training and cultural awareness courses. Lee was awarded a Bachelor of Management from the Cambodian National Institute of Management and is also a qualified Workplace trainer and Assessor.

Name: Ky Bunnal Position: Provincial Project Officer- Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Battambang) Biodata: Bunnal graduated as a registered Nurse in accordance with the UN standard curriculum in 1992 and Diploma in Training Assessment at workplace and, has successfully completed a Masters of Public Administration at University of CUP, Phnom Penh, and. He is now engaged as a Project Officer, CPCS with the Project for the next three years, Bunnal will assist in supporting Battambang Government, community, and agencies to support the Integration of CPCS plan in accordance with National Committee for the Management of Decentralization and Deconcentration Reform Guidelines. He has a strong commitment to work closely at the sub-national to improve security and gender, with a key focus on women and child, and vulnerable groups.

Name: Chrea Dalya Position: Provincial Project Officer - Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Kandal) Biodata: Dalya is a Project Officer for Crime Prevention and Community Safety having joined CCJAP in 2007. She is a practicing lawyer and a member of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia. Dalya is also a Associate Professor at the Lawyer Training Centre (LTC) working on the draft of the Civil Code. She has over four years experience in practicing as a lawyer and in working for different Organizations including; East-West Management Institute (EWMI)-Cambodia, Lawyer Training Centre (LTC) ,Free Legal Consultation Office and Community Legal Education Centre (CLEC). She enjoys hard work but is flexible, adaptable and goal oriented. Dalya was simultaneously awarded a Bachelor of Khmer and French Law and graduated respectively from the Royal University of Law and Economics, and the University of Lyon II. Dalya completed her internship as a lawyer with a French Law Firm in France. She recently won a fellowship program to study for a Diploma in Transitional Justice and Human Rights at the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), hosted in Cape Town, South Africa. Dalya comes from modest family where her parents are teachers, and she has four brothers.

Name: Um Sok Chamroeun Position: Project Officer - Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Prey Veng) Biodata: Cham Roeun started working in Crime Prevention and Community Safety in August 2008 with the Cambodia Criminal and Justice Assistance Project. From 2000 to 2007, He worked for Lutheran World Federation Organization in Cambodia in the post of Community Empowerment Officer (CEO) which had focused on 7 components as Community Development, Human Rights and Advocacy, Food Security, Health, Education, Income Generation, Disaster and Mitigation. He also was graduated the bachelor degree in French language at University of Phnom Penh in 1998 and Master Business Administration in General Management at Build Bright University of Phnom Penh in 2006. Cham Roeun has other skills as Training Skill, Human Resource Management, Community Facilitation Skill, Community Development, Micro Finance Management, and Project Planning and Design.

Name: Ian Bate Position: Police Adviser Biodata: Ian is a serving member of the Australian Federal Police. Ian joined the AFP in 1980 and has worked in a range of areas including narcotics, organised crime and fraud investigations. Ian has completed attachments to the National Crime Authority (twice), the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, and a Royal Commission in Tasmania in 2000. Ian represented the AFP as Senior Liaison Officer to Los Angeles in 2002-4 and in Hong Kong on temporary assignment in 2006. In 2004-5, Ian was Deputy Commander of the Participating Police Force as part of the Regional Assistance Mission, Solomon Islands (RAMSI). Ian brings 28 years of policing experience to the CCJAPIII Project as the Police Adviser and is working closely with the Senior Executive of the Cambodian National Police for the purpose of developing future strategies for the ongoing development of the CNP. Ian is a keen sports fan, particularly if it involves the Sydney Swans (AFL) or Melbourne Storm (NRL).

Name: Huot Veng Chan Position: Project Officer - Police Biodata: Chan commenced working in the criminal justice sector in 1998 with the Cambodia Criminal Justice Project Phase I. Since this date Chan has performed a variety of roles on both CCJAP phase I & II working mainly on activities to assist reform the Cambodian National Police. Prior to this he worked for a variety of International and local non government agencies such as the International Rescue Committee, the World Bank Labour Law and Education of Women and Children Project, the Cambodia Trust Limb Project, as well as managing a School of English. Chan is a fluent English reader and speaker and also speaks and reads Thai. Other skills possessed by Chan include; Financial accounting, Small Business Management, and Project Planning and Design.

Name: Ian McPhee Position: Ministry of Justice and Courts Adviser Biodata: Ian is a career Courts Administrator with over 30 years experience in all aspects of judicial administration and court management. He has direct and specific experience in the Supreme Courts; County Courts; Magistrates Courts, in both civil and criminal jurisdictions as well as Children's Courts and Coroner's Courts. Ian has many years of direct experience in providing advice to Chief Justices and the judiciary whilst holding senior positions within the Victorian court system and in his roles as a courts adviser in developing countries. In his role as courts adviser in developing countries Ian's advice has formed the basis for major reform within judicial departments in both practices and procedures as well as legislative amendment. He is a qualified Clerk of Courts; Commissioner for Affidavits; Bail Justice, and accredited mediator. Ian also has several years of developing country experience where he has demonstrated a capacity to mentor, advise and support a wide range of judicial administrators and practitioners. This includes building strong counterpart and stakeholder relationships, and engendering meaningful ownership and commitment to institutional reforms, up to and including Chief Justice and CEO level. Ian has significant experience in the design, development and delivery of judicial and court clerk training and mentoring programs; both induction programs for new officers, and in-service programs for experienced officers. He also has recent and direct experience in the provision of technical support for judicial training mechanisms and has also delivered institutional strengthening support and capacity building to formal legal and judicial development process.

Name: Yan Sokha Position: Project Officer - Ministry of Justice and Courts Biodata: Sokha has a Bachelor of Law Degree having graduated from the Law School of the Norton University in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2001. He is currently part way through his studies for a Masters of Law Degree. He worked in both the CCJAP I and II projects. Now CCJAP III, He is engaged as a Project Officer, Ministry of Justice and the Courts with the Project for the next five years. Sokha will assist the Ministry of Justice, Provincial-Municipal court and Appeal Courts to improve the practices and the procedures. He has experiences in providing legal written and verbal translations, monitoring and evaluation, project planning and designs and coordinated activities at provincial and ministerial levels. His work within CCJAP has involved assisting the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Interior to draft legislations, circulars and instructions relating to program initiatives. Sokha also worked closely with both overseas and locally engaged advisers to produce the Ministry of Justices new Criminal Court Procedure Handbook as well as preparing training curriculums, national and provincial workshops and administrative matters. He has excellent relationship with all the counterparts and high levels of the government agencies. He knows how to deal with the government agencies with the effective ways. Other interests: watching TV and travelling.

Name: Cheryl Clay Position: Community Corrections Adviser Biodata: Cheryl is our Community Corrections Adviser. Cheryl has experience in a diverse range of areas including health, mental health, child protection, juvenile justice, prison management and policy development. Recent correctional experience has included the positions of Director of Women's Custodial Services responsible for the commissioning of a specialist prison for women and establishing a statewide directorate in Western Australia responsible for the management of women in custody and as the General Manager Public Prisons responsible for the provision of statewide prisons services in South Australia. Recent cross government policy development experience has included undertaking a review of Juvenile Justice service provisions, including custodial care, and providing advice to government regarding areas for change. Cheryl's experience is complimented by a Bachelor Degree in Social Work and Graduate qualifications in both Management and Public Health.

Name: Lam Kunboth Position: Project Officer - Prison Management Biodata: Both graduated from the Royal University of Agriculture in 1992, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Agronomy and employed as an Agriculture Teacher at Prek Leap Agriculture College and also was Chief of the Technical Office. Both started working with CCJAPI in May, 1998 as a translator/interpreter and prison farm adviser in the area of Prison Management. His responsibilities were to assist delivery of project outputs at the operational level of national and provincial/municipal prisons. In 2001 when the project was extended to phase II he was promoted to Project Technical Assistant and in 2006, Both was promoted to Project Officer with the wider responsibilities to work with international staff to deliver outputs at the operational and policy levels of national and provincial/municipal prisons. Both is interested in working with prison people who are living and working as a community and is looking forward to working in the area of prison operational management and integrated farming systems in prison. Both is living with his partner and they have one daughter. Both likes watching the news and traveling.

Name: Eam Yuth Position: Manager, Finance and Administration Biodata: Yuth commenced work with CCJAP in 1997 at the beginning of Phase I. He has now been the Manager for Finance and Administration for 10 Years. As the Manager - Finance and Administration Yuth has the responsibility for managing the Ministry of Interior Project Office and Project site offices. Yuth enjoys working with the project to improve project management and operations. He is committed for the next five years and will seek to maintain the strong team spirit. Yuth's hobbies are visiting ancient temples and tourist centres as well as beaches, natural waterfalls and travelling to overseas.

Name: Vathana Chan Position: Manager, Flexible Support facility Biodata: Vathana is responsible for the management of the CCJAP Flexible Support Facility in partnership with the Team Leader and Local and International Advisers. His is responsible for ensuring all operations of the FSF support a genuine Government of Australia and Royal Government of Cambodia partnership in the resource allocation decision making process. Before undertaking this task, Vathana spent three years working with the CCJAP Crime Prevention and Community Safety initiative in Phase II as a Coordinator in Kandal Province. (CCJAP II undertook a CPCS Pilot Project in Kandal to help to establish CPCS Committees and network of Institution/organisation both public and private to support those Committees). Vathana has also managed the Trust Fund in implementation of the Pilot Project in Kandal provided technical support, Community Development and Capacity building and on the job training to Kandal CPCS Committees both at Provincial and District level. Prior to joining the CCJAP Team, Vathana was a member of the academic staff at the Institute of Economics where he has spent seven years as a lecturer at that Institute.

Name: Long Maline Position: Executive Support Officer Biodata: Maline started with CCJAP II in May 2006 as a Communications Officer and in CCJAP III was promoted to Assistant to the Team Leader. Before joining CCJAP, Maline worked in a number of international standard hotels, including the Sunway and Phnom Penh Hotels for over 8 years. She has extensive experience as a secretary and administration officer. She is hard working, works well under pressure and is a valuable team player. Maline has also worked for an NGO, Khmer Students and Intellectual Association (KSIA) sponsored by Japan and worked as a team leader of electoral observers during National Elections in July 1998. Maline was awarded a Bachelor Degree of International Business Management (IBM) at Royal University of Phnom Penh in 2002. She has also received a variety of other skill development certificates including Business Administration, Accounting, Marketing, Human Resource Management, Secretary and Administration Affairs, Computers and English.

Name: Sao Samsak Position: Communications Officer Biodata: Sak is the Communications Officer for CCJAP III, and commenced working in this capacity in September, 2007. Before engaging with CCJAP III, she has previous work experience with private sectors (banking, airlines, and advertising agency), international agency (Commune Council Development Project/ADB), and local NGO (Women's Media Centre of Cambodia). Sak gained a Bachelor Degree of Business Administration in August, 2007 majored Financial Accounting. As the Communication Officer, she will provide assistance to Project Manager to manage the Project Communication Strategy, develop a meeting and contact strategy with stakeholders, donors and NGos directly involved in CCJAP activities. Further, she looks forward to building the good communication strategy of CCJAP. Sak's hobbies are swimming and travelling to abroad.

Name: You Veasna Position: Assistant to Admin & Finance Manager Biodata: Veasna commenced working with CCJAP III in September 2007 as an assistant to Admin & Finance Manager. In this working capacity Veasna not only assist the finance manager but he also provides assistance to the project team as required. Veasna has a strong commitment to build good relationship with all team members. Veasna enjoys listening to International music.

Name: Sandra Tindale-Lam Position: Short-term Adviser- Executive Development and Human Resource Biodata: Sandra Tindale-Lam is a corporate psychologist and joins the CCJAP team as the Executive Development and Human Resources Management Adviser. Her role is to facilitate improved executive management capacity and to provide strategic advice on human resource reform to ensure human resource functions facilitate the achievement of corporate objectives. She possesses a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Organizational Psychology and a Masters of Business Administration majoring in management and business strategy. Sandra's expertise include the conduct of management reviews for improved organizational performance; corporate planning; organizational change; the application of cultural and climate evaluations for organizational development and redesign purposes; and human capital management and development. She has had extensive experience in the area of corporate and human resource management and development in both public and private sector agencies in Australia and her international development work spans across 13 countries in the Asia and Pacific Region.

Name: David Week Position: Short-Term Adviser - Capital Works Biodata: David has some thirty years experience in the design and management of planning and culturally appropriate infrastructure projects in the Asia-Pacific region. After leaving Berkeley in 1978, he co-founded the Community Based Building Program Ltd [CBBP] in Papua New Guinea. This not-for-profit design-build corporation was committed to establishing a new, regional architecture in Papua New Guinea. The CBBP carried out many urban and rural projects, including key aspects of the Gavien Resettlement Scheme in the East Sepik, and Telefomin High School in the remote Star Mountains. In 1985, David moved to Australia established Assai (then Pacific Architecture) to work on a regional basis. Assai now has 15 staff, and focusses on culturally appropriate infrastructure in four sectors: International Development, Indigenous Australia, Resources Sector, Strategic Workplaces. David has directed and managed the design and implementation of overseas aid projects for AusAID and the World Bank, the planning and design of facilities for Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander communities, the design of corporate workplaces based on organisational culture, and assisted resource companies to fulfill their community obligations. David now chairs the Assai Board, and consults to key clients. David has lectured at conferences and schools throughout Australia, as well as in Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, and the US. David has written and published over 20 journal articles, conference papers and magazine articles.

Name: Tim O Shaughnessy Position: Short-Term Adviser - Monitoring and Evaluation Biodata: Dr Tim O Shaughnessy has over thirty years experience in program design, appraisal, monitoring and evaluation of social-development programs in Australia and overseas. He has evaluated overseas-aid projects across several sectors, including law and justice, public administration, HIV and health, vocational education and training, micro-enterprise development, food security and services of children. He has worked in over 20 countries in Asia, Pacific and Africa. Over the past six years, he has provided ongoing evaluation services to AusAID-funded projects in many Asia-Pacific countries including Cambodia, PNG, China, Fiji, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Indonesia and East Timor. Tim is the director of his own consulting company and lives in Fiji. He is assisting CCJAPIIII to design and implement its monitoring and evaluation framework.

Name: Isabel Calvert Position: STA Juvenile Justice Specialist Biodata: Isabel is a specialist in public international law, with qualifications in Anthropology, Law and Public International Law. Isabel has worked in the international development sphere for nearly 20 years - initially as a diplomat and lawyer, and later as a social justice specialist in justice sector reform. previous experience​ of Isabel spans 25 countries in Africa (South Africa, Lesotho, Sierra Leone) the Pacific (almost all countries of the Pacific) and Asia (India, Cambodia, Los, Thailand) where she has worked in various capacities around justice sector reform from a social justice/rights approach, and includes work as an international civil servant in various roles in the United Nations (Vienna, New York and the Pacific region). Most recently Isabel has been (through UNICEF support) assisting the Cambodian Ministry of Justice and the Inter-Ministerial Working Group on Child Justice (CJWG) to finalise the Juvenile Justice draft law, and brings that experience to her work with CCJAP. Isabel and her associate, Tong Heng, will draft a juvenile justice strategy for CCJAP that will help ensure the ongoing commitment, maximisation and sustainability of efforts of CCJAP in juvenile justice.

Name: TONG Heng Position: STA Juvenile Justice Associate Biodata: Heng commenced his work as Juvenile Justice Associate with Isabel in October 2008. Before joining CCJAP, Heng worked as a Deputy Project Manager/Data Analyst of the Court Watch Project in the Legal Unit at the Centre For Social Development (CSD). Heng was responsible for analysing, updating and securing all the data collected from 9 courts at 6 provinces - Kandal, Kampong Cham, Battambang, Siem Reap, Kampot and Sihanouk Ville, respectively. The outcome of data analysis was published in quarterly publications of Court Watch Bulletin of Court Watch Project of CSD, and in Annual Report of CSD. As well as this, Heng was in charge of daily court monitoring activities and follow up cutting-edge cases, including juvenile offenders, victims and witnesses. Heng graduated from Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE) in Law in 2002, from University of Cambodia with a Masters of Public Administration (MPA) in 2005 and from the Transnational Law and Business University (TLBU), South Korea in 2007 with a Masters Degree in International Law specialising in International Criminal Law.

	Name: Arie Bloed Position: Short-Term Adviser - Strategy Planning Adviser Biodata: N.A