Before joining the Natural Resource Governance Institute, Ko Ko Lwin served as a program officer for the Myanmar-based Sustainable Development Knowledge Network, or Spectrum, working broadly on transparency and accountability matters at the national and regional level.

Since 2012, he has supported civil society’s work on EITI, and he served as a member of the country’s first EITI multi-stakeholder group in early 2014.

Based in Yangon, Ko Ko monitors developments in extractive industry governance in the region. He is also responsible for coordinating activities that build capacity and partnership among civil society organizations and other stakeholders. Ko Ko earned his undergraduate degree from the Magway University of Technology in Myanmar, majoring in civil engineering. He holds a master’s of environmental management in mining from University of Queensland, Australia.