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Development specialist in key regional projects in agriculture, trade development and food safety and quality, and cross-border trade mechanisms, specializing in value chain integration, institutional capacity-building, and research. Brings over 17 years of professional experience with the ADB, UNDP and other international organizations on evaluation and project design. |
 Contact Vichelle Roaring-Arunsuwannakorn
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Trade, Finance, Economics, Cooperation, Global
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Vichelle Roaring-Arunsuwannakorn is currently the Food Safety and Quality Specialist in the Greater Mekong Subregion Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security Program supported by the Asian Development Bank. She worked as a Trade Facilitation Specialist under the GMS Core Agriculture Support Program Phase 2 (GMS CASP 2), where she led key regional projects to evaluate and accelerate market access of agriculture products and enhanced food quality, safety, and traceability in the GMS through strengthened and harmonized policies, value chain integration, institutional capacity-building, and research. Vichelle also brings over 17 years of professional experience with the ADB, UNDP and other international organizations on regional cooperation, cross-border trade, transport and trade facilitation, agriculture policy development, economic corridor development, strategy planning, monitoring and evaluation, and social development. This includes stints on major regional integration bodies and initiatives in Southeast Asia and South Asia including IMT-GT, BIMP-EAGA and the GMS.
In her multiple consulting roles for ADB, she led pioneering initiatives on trade, transport, and customs facilitation, food quality and safety, in Cambodia, People’s Republic of China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam, working closely with national agencies, SMEs, NGOs, farmer associations, and research institutes. Projects worth noting are multilateral undertakings in cross-border trade operations, customs procedures/transit systems, standards harmonization and equivalence, multilateral trade and transport agreements (e.g., GMS Cross-Border Transport Agreement), cross-border software information systems, among ASEAN member countries, as well as mitigation of transboundary animal diseases. Previous professional roles also include working as a regional strategy specialist at World Vision International, as a project associate for poverty reduction for UNDP, editorial associate of the Philippine Review of Economics Journal, and as a research associate at the University of the Philippines School of Economics. She pursued graduate research on Innovations on Food Quality and Safety under the United Nations University-Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology and has completed a Masters Degree in Public Policy from the National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, Japan and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of the Philippines School of Economics.
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Education: |
Master in Public Policy,
NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR
POLICY STUDIES (GRIPS), Tokyo, Japan
[2002-2003]
B.S. Economics
UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES, Diliman, Quezon City
[1995–1999]
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