BIOGRAPHY
Dr Larry Wong, a development economist by training, has over 35 years operational experience in development and business planning, implementation and policy analysis and his engagement continues to straddle both the public and private sectors. He is currently MRF/MAPCO Senior Advisor, Co-Founder of Myanmar Praxis Pte Ltd, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Myanmar Development Resource Institute’s Center of Economic and Social Development (MDRI-CESD). He has been involved with Myanmar’s private and public sectors since 1997, when he was heading BERNAS’ (a Malaysian public listed, privatized former state trading enterprise) international agri-food business supply chains and trading network, spanning Asia and Africa and subsequently when he was Program Director in the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia from 2004. He was a consultant for USAID’s ‘Strategic Agricultural Sector and Food Security Diagnostic for Myanmar’, 2013; Asian Development Bank Institute’s (ADBI) ‘Strengthening Rice Supply Chains Development in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Viet Nam (CLMV Countries)’, 2013; and the recently launched Asian Development Bank’s Country Diagnostic Study ‘Myanmar: Unlocking the Potential’, 2014 as well as ADB Staff Consultant on agri-business and agro-enterprise development on Myanmar and The Philippines. He has also consulted for The World Bank, UNDP, FAO, UNESCAP, IFPRI, and IRRI as well as governments and business conglomerates on value/supply chains and trading networks, agribusiness and agro-enterprises, and food security.
mapco
Myanmar Agribusiness Public Corporation (MAPCO) is a wholly-owned non-government Public Corporation, established in 2012. MAPCO is formed to mobilize public savings and to faster broader investment in agriculture and agro-based industries of Myanmar.
Their mission is to reform the agro-based industry into a more vibrant and competitive sector, catalyze the agriculture segment to become the nation’s engine of growth, placing MAPCO as prominent and preferred agribusiness investment avenue.