WAPOR Asia was approved by council on July 6, 2016.

You can see the WAPOR Asia website here: https://www.waporasia.org/

If you have questions about WAPOR Asia, please contact Yashwant Deshmukh (WAPOR Asia President) (yashwantdeshmukh@gmail.com).

Upcoming WAPOR Asia 4th Annual Conference

Executive Committee of the Council

President: Yashwant Deshmukh
Vice President & President Elect: Jibum Kim
Past President: Robert Chung
Secretary-Treasurer: Eric Yu

Other Members of the Council

(Local Representatives for 2020-2021, arranged in alphabetical order of country/region names)

Australia: Toni Makkai
Bangladesh: Haq M Saidul
China: Weidong Wang
Cyprus: Panayiotis Panayiotou
Hong Kong: Edward Tai
India: Shalinder Mahajan
Indonesia: Hasanuddin Ali
Iran: Amir Farmanesh
Iraq: Munqith Dagher
Israel: Yariv Tsfati
Japan: Tadahiko Maeda
Korea: Jibum Kim
Malaysia: Syed Arabi Idid
Myanmar: Htun Htun Oo
Nepal: Jui Shrestha
Pakistan: Ijaz Gilani
Philippines: Gerardo (Jay) Sandoval
Qatar: Noora Ahmed Lari
Russia: Yulia Baskakova
Singapore: Chan-Hoong Leong
Sri Lanka: Pradeep Peiris
Taiwan: Eric Yu
Thailand: Thawilwadee Bureekul
Turkey: Bulent Kilincarslan
United Arab Emirates: Titiana Karabchuk
United Kingdom: Colin Irwin
United States of America: Holli Semetko

Appointments Made by the President According to the Constitution

Electoral Committee (2020)

Chair: Robert Chung
Members: Yashwant Deshmukh & Jibum Kim

​WAPOR Asia Lifetime Achievement Award Selection Committee (2020)

Chair: Yashwant Deshmukh (ex officio, WAPOR Asia President)
Members: Jibum Kim (ex officio, WAPOR Asia Vice President), Robert Chung (ex officio, WAPOR Asia Past President), Holli Semetko, Colin Irwin

WAPOR Asia Annual Conference Committee (2020)

Chair: Syed Arabi Idid
Co-Chair: Holli Semetko (ex officio, WAPOR Asia Conference Committee Chair)
Members: Pending

Conference Committee (2020)

Chair: Holli Semetko
Members: Pending

​Media Committee (2020)

Chair: Shiv Sehgal
Members: Pending