Dr Larry Wong has over 38 years’ operational experience in development and business planning and implementation, and policy analysis. His engagement continues to straddle both the public and private sectors. His key areas of expertise include developing and managing agro-food supply/value chains and trading networks; agribusiness and agro-enterprises; Public- Private Partnerships in agriculture; regional integration; food security; Water-Energy- Food nexus; and sustainable development. He is Co-Founder of Myanmar Praxis Co Ltd.; Senior Advisor, Myanmar Rice Federation (MRF); Visiting Research Fellow, Center of Economic and Social Development (CESD) Myanmar; and Visiting Fellow (Ex- Program Director), Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia. 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 agro-food business, involving the development and management of supply chains and trading networks, spanning Asia and Africa.

He has consulted for The World Bank, IFC, Asian Development Bank, ADBI, UNDP, FAO, UNESCAP, IFPRI, USAID and IRRI as well as governments and business conglomerates focusing on value/supply chains and trading networks, agribusiness and agro- enterprises, regional integration, food security, and sustainable development in Malaysia and Myanmar as well as in Vietnam, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Guinea, Mozambique, Cuba, Mongolia and Uzbekistan. He has published extensively and has served on editorial boards of various journals as well as board member of Asia Pacific Agriculture Policy (APAP) Forum.

He has a PhD in Economics from University of Kent-at- Canterbury, United Kingdom; M. Ec. in Agricultural Economics from University of New England, Australia; and B. Agric. Sc. (Hons), majoring in Agricultural Economics, from University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

He has been practicing Vipasanna meditation under various masters, including Sayadaw U Pandita since 1997 and attends annual retreats at Panditarama Forest Meditation Center near Bago, Myanmar.