I am scheduled to deliver a 15 minutes presentation on the mother tongue education in Malaysia.
Wong Hon Wai presently serves as publicity secretary for the Penang Democratic Action Party (DAP) in Penang. He is an advocate and solicitor, High Court of Malaya and has declared his intention to run for public office in the upcoming national elections to be held at the end of 2007 or early 2008. Mr. Wong has been an active member of the DAP, organizing and speaking at political and educational forums. One forum was to commemorate International Mother Tongues Day, raising public awareness of the issues of multicultural and mother tongue education in Malaysia, where ethnic groups have contended unfair treatment and funding of education in their native languages. Mr. Wong holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Kebangsaan in Malaysia and completed his bachelor of jurisprudence at the University of Malaya in Malaysia.
The other participants
The 17th New Generation Seminar Participant Biographies:
The 17th NGS participants come from a myriad of countries and backgrounds.
Kessara Amornvuthivorn, Manager, Innovative Learning for Youth, Human Capacity Development Division, Kenan Institute Asia, Bangkok, Thailand
Drupti Chauhan, Senior Attorney and Legislative Analyst, Research Division, North Carolina General Assembly, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Chad Christensen, Assemblyman, Nevada State Assembly, Carson City, Nevada, United States
Song-chang Hong, Policy Advisor to Rep. Lee Ju-ho, National Assembly, Seoul, Korea
Rizwan Ullah Khan, Manager Operations (Planning and Implementation), Balochistan Education Foundation, Balochistan, Pakistan
Moana Lynore Mackey, Member of Parliament, New Zealand Labour Party, Wellington, New Zealand
Ismael Veloso Mastura, Vice President for Finance and School Administrator, Sultan Kudarat Islamic Academy Foundation College, Sultan Kudarat, Shariff Kabunsuan, Mindanao, Philippines
Lori McClung, Principal, Advocacy and Communications Solutions, LLP, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Kalolaine Fifita Tafa Moeaki, A/Principal Education Officer (Policy and Planning), Ministry of Education, Nuku’alofa, Tonga
Quynh Thi Truc Phan, Programme Officer for Education, The Atlantic Philanthropies, Hanoi, Vietnam
Ranvir Prasad, District Collector, Thiruvallur, Government of Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu, India
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Council President, Baltimore City Council, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Kinley Rinchen, Planning Officer, The Royal University of Bhutan, Thimphu, Bhutan
Fajar Riza Ul Haq, Program Director of Religious Education Reform, MAARIF Institute for Culture and Humanity, Jakarta, Indonesia
Hon Wai Wong, Publicity Secretary, Penang DAP (Democratic Action Party), Penang, Malaysia
Kejin Zhao, Assistant Professor, Center for American Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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