Category: 2024 Speaker

Engobo Emeseh is a Professor of Law, with extensive experience in higher education spanning over 28 years within and outside the UK. In 2017, she was appointed as the Head of the School of Law, University of Bradford, and since April 2024 has been the Interim Dean of the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences.

Engobo’s research expertise is broadly in environmental law and policy, particularly within the context of the regulation and governance of the extractives industry in Africa. She has worked on these issues with distinguished international organisations such as UNECA IDEP, Oxfam Mozambique, the African Capacity Building Foundation, and the African Community of Practice on Managing for Development Results (Governance and Social Responsibility in Natural Resources Exploitation). She recently completed a four year-long project as a member of the Bayelsa State Oil and Environment Commission, which published its report in May 2023: An Environmental Genocide: The Human and Environmental cost of Big Oil in Bayelsa, Nigeria. She holds various editorial board membership of academic journals, including being the founding Managing Editor of the Nigeria Yearbook of international Law (Springer).

Engobo obtained her PhD from the Centre for Energy Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee. She graduated with first class from the Nigeria Law School and Distinction from the University of Wales Cardiff. She is a former British Council Chevening Scholar, and a Ford Foundation (IFP) doctoral fellow. Prior to her academic career, she practiced as a barrister and solicitor in Nigeria.

Dr. Supattarayan Thongjit is the Vice Dean, Director of the Advance Dental Assistance Program, Institute of Dentistry, Suranaree University of Technology.

Supattarayan worked in a government hospital in 2006, starting as a dental public health officer. Supattarayan performed duties to the best of his ability, helping people to promote, prevent, treat, and restore health in the area without expecting anything in return. Supattarayan always tried to study and seek knowledge until graduated with the highest level of education, which is a Doctor of Philosophy in Community Health Development, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University.

Dr. Supattarayan continues to attend various training courses that can be used to help in studies and research to find new knowledge in solving health problems in the community until Supattarayan has the opportunity to work with Suranaree University of Technology in the Institute of Dentistry as a lecturer.

Currently, Dr. Supattarayan is the Vice Dean and Director of the High Dental Assistance Program and is still interested in research along with teaching with people in the community to explain the phenomenon of solving health problems continuously so that it can be applied to solve problems and monitor health, especially dental health, Supattarayan thinks will be able to help people and create innovations from the research process in the future.

Dr.N. Manoharan, presently serving as Director – Projects and International Affairs of Hindustan Group of Institutions has served as Vice Chancellor of Sathyabama University, Chennai and Pro Vice Chancellor of AMET University, Chennai. He is Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering with over 37 years of Teaching, Research and Administrative experience in Engineering College / University level. He has specialized in the area of Internal Combustion Engines, Thermography, Radiography, Materials, Micro Electronics and Nano Technology.

He has filed and published Twenty-Nine Patents with ONE Patent granted in different areas of Engineering and Technology. He has published Three Hundred and Ninety-Five Technical papers in different National / International Journals / Conferences of various areas of research. He has organized several Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, Symposia, Short-term and Long-term courses. He is a life Member / member of TWENTY-ONE Professional Societies. He has served in various higher positions in different Organizations including Vice-Chancellor, Pro Vice Chancellor, Director, Dean, Principal and Professor.

Kasemsan Manomaiphiiboon holds a PhD degree in Environmental Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology (US) with his thesis on air quality modeling and related mathematical analysis. He has taught at the Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (Thailand) since 2006 and supervised many graduate students and post-graduate researchers from various countries. His research involves air quality, climate, weather, and ambient energy using data analytics and numerical modeling as the main driving tools. He has published research findings in various journals, and co-written a book chapter, a book on local administration (environment section), and a mini-book on climate change & air quality. He has regularly engaged in professional services (as expert and reviewer) and occasionally shared opinions to the public through newspaper articles and media channels.

Camar P. Ameril is a graduate with a B.Sc. Biology (2007) degree at Mindanao State University-Marawi City under the College Bound Program Grant and later Academic Scholarship. He joined the Biology Department as an instructor in June 2007. He completed an M.Sc. in Environmental Sanitation (2015) at Ghent University, Belgium, under a Flemish Government Scholarship (VLIR-UOS) and an M.Sc. in Biology (2018) at MSU-Marawi City. He is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Microbiology (minor in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology) at the University of the Philippines-Los Baños, Laguna. For his doctoral dissertation, he is working on the “Chemotherapeutic Potentials of Prebiotic Compound 1,4-Dihydroxy-2-naphthoic Acid (DHNA) Against Prostate Cancer and Bacterial Pathogens,” which aims to combine 2D and 3D culture techniques in drug testing platforms. This involves 3D bioprinting and the use of appropriate hydrogels that serve as bio-inks. His research interests include One Health, antimicrobial resistance, and environmental microbiology. Outside of the academe, he is involved in various volunteering activities and community outreach programs organized by civic organizations and societies.

Dr. Husna Dimapalao is an Assistant Professor at Mindanao State University Marawi City. She handles biology courses both for undergraduate and graduate students. She got her PhD in the University of the Philippines Los Baños. Her dissertation utilized bioinformatic tools that could determine effects of diet particularly indigenous berries of the Philippines to health. She is passionate about doing research for the betterment of the people in Lanao. She wishes to collaborate with researchers outside MSU or even from outside Philippines to do research that could uplift poverty, food insecurity and overall problem of humanity.

Prof. (Dr.) Saranjit Singh with Doctoral and Master’s degree in Production Engg (Manufacturing Engg) and Bachelors in Mechanical Engg and has been associated with KIIT University since last 15 years. He served 10 years at BIT Mesra, Ranchi as Associate Professor in Department of Production Engineering followed by 15 Years in at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha as Professor, Dean, Director and Pro-Vice Chancellor. His teaching & research areas of interest are sustainable manufacturing, cleaner technologies, competitive manufacturing strategies, material processing technologies, metal forming of sintered, cellular, foam, polymer and metal matrix composites, DFX methodologies, quality engineering & quality management. He had guided 5 Doctoral and 25 Master scholars and had published/ presented more than 100 research articles in the international & national journals, conferences and seminars. He has published 3 books in the area of material processing technologies and is also Fellow & Life Member of numerous engineering societies. His last assignment was as Pro-Vice Chancellor and presently working a Vice Chancellor of KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar.

Associate Professor Krajang Talabnin is Vice Director of Research and Development Institute, Suranaree University of Technology and current board secretary of Thailand University Network (Northeastern region). Krajang is responsible for leadership and management of life sciences and medical sciences research network of SUT, leading the development of quality research and innovation. Collaboration, joint research, and partnerships are his key concepts. He is interested in Health Policy. His dream cars are electrics (EV).