WAPOR Asia Pacific Regional Chapter

WAPOR Asia was approved by the WAPOR Council on July 6, 2016. The chapter name WAPOR Asia was changed to WAPOR Asia Pacific by vote of chapter members and made official on 1 January 2022.

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

If you have questions about WAPOR Asia, please contact WAPOR Asia Pacific President Linda Luz B. Guerrero (guerrero@sws.org.ph).

Call for papers for the 2024 Asia Pacific Seventh Annual Conference: https://waporasiapacific.org/event_2024 

Executive Committee of the Council

President: Linda Luz B. Guerrero (2024/1/1-2025/12/31)
Vice President & President-Elect: Matthew Gray (2024/1/1-2025/12/31, 2026/1/1-2027/12/31)
Past President: Jibum Kim (2024/1/1-2025/12/31)
Secretary-Treasurer: Winnie Lee (2023/1/1-2024/12/31)
Conference Chair: Seokho Kim (2024/1/1-2025/12/31)
Liaison Chair: Haq M Saidul (2024/1/1-2025/12/31)

 

Advisory Board

Mahar Mangahas (Philippines)
Ijaz Gilani (Pakistan)
Takashi Inoguchi (Japan)
Syed Arabi Idid (Malaysia)
Robert Chung (Hong Kong)

Yashwant Deshmukh (India)
Colin Irwin (United Kingdom)

 

Other Members of the Council

(Local Representatives for 2024-2025, arranged in alphabetical order of country/region names)

  • Australia: Markus Hahn
  • Bangladesh: Haq M Saidul
  • China: Weidong Wang
  • Cyprus: Panayiotis Panayiotou
  • Hong Kong: Kenneth Chan
  • India: Shalinder Mahajan
  • Indonesia: Hasanuddin Ali
  • Iran: Amir Farmanesh
  • Iraq: Munqith Dagher
  • Israel: Yariv Tsfati
  • Japan: Tadahiko Maeda
  • Korea: Yun-Suk Lee
  • 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: Tatiana Karabchuk
  • United Kingdom: Colin Irwin
  • United States Of America: Holli Semeko

 

Appointments Made by the President According to the Constitution

Electoral Committee (2024)

Chair: Jibum Kim (ex officio, WAPOR Asia Pacific Past President)

Members:

  • Linda Luz Guerrero
  • Matthew Gray

 

Conference Committee (2024)

Chair: Seokho Kim

Members: Pending

 

WAPOR Asia Pacific Lifetime Achievement Award Selection Committee (2024)

Chair: Linda Luz Guerrero (ex officio, WAPOR Asia Pacific President)

Members:

  • Matthew Gray (ex officio, WAPOR Asia Pacific Vice President)
  • Jibum Kim (ex officio, WAPOR Asia Pacific Past President)
  • Pending

 

WAPOR Asia Pacific Annual Conference Local Organizing Committee (2024)

Chair: Jibum Kim

Co-Chair: Seokho Kim (ex officio, WAPOR Asia Pacific Conference Committee Chair)

Members:

  • Dukjin Chang
  • Minhee Cho
  • Seulki  Choi
  • Dong-Kyun Im
  • Yun-Suk Lee
  • Wonho Park

 

Membership Committee (2024)

Chair: Weidong Wang

Members: Pending