Jelson Garcia

Regional Coordinator, Mekong/Southeast Asia, Asia Program

Phone	+66 2 275-8815 (Bangkok)
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Jelson Garcia joins BIC as the Regional Coordinator for Mekong and Southeast Asia. A Filipino national, Jelson has previously worked for a number of local and international groups, which facilitated his close interaction with indigenous communities, federations of farmers, rural workers and fishermen and the demobilized combatants. He coordinated the campaign, advocacy, research and resource generation units of Peace for Development Group, supporting grassroots initiatives for agrarian reform, organic crop diversification, and environmental rehabilitation. He has researched sustainable agriculture alternatives promoted by MASIPAG, a Filipino national network of farmers, scientists and NGOs. He has also led two INGO-funded action research projects on the micro-level impacts of WTO policies as articulated in coastal development, sugar industry, agricultural and forestry programs of the national and local governments.

Prior to his work with CSOs, Jelson was involved with the Office of the Philippine President’s Program for Unification and Development. His most recent employment was with the Humanitarian Competency Program of World Vision-Asia Pacific Disaster Management Office.

Jelson has a background in Philosophy and has completed a degree in Anthropology and Comparative Sociology at Macquarie University (Australia). He's working on his master’s thesis at the University of the Philippines.

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