Steven Chambers (United Kingdom)
International Advisor
sc.bcif@imperial.ac.uk

Steve is doing his MSci Mathematics at Imperial College London. He is the very first recipient of the prestigious Roy White Scholarship. Steve leads Imperial BlueCube, a major partner of the Balud Project, and is Imperial's Youth Science Ambassador. He won in the International Intel Science and Engineering Fair in 2005. He spent time in the USA, initiating research with the Harvard Management Company, studying Philanthropically Adjusted Invested Schemes. He has had interest in Social Development issues since his involvement with the United Nations Development Program in 2005.

Jayson Reggie Obos
Country Program Manager

Reggie is an Electronics Engineering student at De La Salle University-Manila. He has been part of the University Student Council and belongs to the Star Scholar Group aof the University. He enjoys networking with different organizations and likes to pursue environmental projects. He is a Grand Award Winner at the International Intel Science and Engineering Fair in Portland, Oregon in 2004, as the representative of the Philippines.

Bryan Asis
Director for Linkages
Director, BALUD Leadership

Bryan is the Most Outstanding Student of De La Salle University. He is studying Electronics and Communications Engineering. He has been a recipient of numerous corporate and academic scholarships. He was a a part of the team which built the first ever solar car in the Philippines and competed in the World Solar Challenge in Australia. In his spare time he helps out in teaching children with an NGO. He is an enthusiast of Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art.

Dexie Jean Gacutno
Director, Finance and Audit
projectteam@baludproject.org

Dexie Jean is an Accountancy student of the University of the Philippines in Tacloban City. She represents the Philippines in the Asian Youth Forum and attended AYF 2006 in Bangkok, Thailand. She was the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Chairperson in Tacloban City. She represented the Balud Project in a youth conference in Korea in 2007. She is an elected member of the University Student Council of the University of the Philippines Tacloban.

Rutchelle Batan Enriquez
Advisor, Education and Youth Leadership

Rutchelle is one of the Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines (2001). She has a Bachelor of Secondary Education in Physics and Technology (cum laude) from Leyte Normal University and a Master of Arts in Science Teaching (Physics) from the University of San Carlos. She has been a delegate to the Asia Pacific Leadership Program of the East West Center of the University of Hawaii where she did field studies in Washington DC and the Khon Kaen Province in Thailand. Her passion is changing the lives of people through education.

Lisa Carter
University College London, United Kingdom

Lisa is a Natural Sciences student at University College London. She spent last year teaching English in Hainan, China, and has attended the Asian Youth Forum in Bangkok, Thailand in 2006. She has been involved in the Balud Project for several years now, and hopes to continue working on similar developments in the future. She has been to Tacloban City and Basey, Samar, thrice during the past years.

Joey Mangadlao
Manila, the Philippines

Joey is doing a BSc in Chemistry at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. He is a Grand Award winner of the 2005 International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, USA. He participated in the 2008 Asian Science Camp in Bali, Indonesia, where he won First Place in the Poster and Oral Competition.

Alexandre Coret
Paris, France

Alex (23) studied social and cultural anthropology at the Université a Aix en Provence and the Université a Aix en Provence in France. He is currently teaching French at two schools in Liestal and Muttenz (Switzerland).

Ambarish Dash
London, United Kingdom

Ambarish is doing his degree in Mathematics with Finance from Imperial College London. He became part of the Balud Project through his association with Imperial Bluecube and by winning the Centenary Prize from Imperial College. His interest in finance resulted in internships with UBS Investment Bank (London), Barclays Capital (London) and Motilal Oswal Investment Advisors (Mumbai); and he is currently engaged in a project on Venture Philanthropy on optimizing philanthropic activities. Ambarish spent his pre-university education in Singapore after receiving the SIA-Youth Scholarship by the Ministry of Education and has plans to pursue a career in finance.

Luca Nguyen
Milan, Italy

Luca is a scholarship master student of Cooperation & Development at the Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia, Italy. He holds a Master in Contemporary Asian Studies (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands) and a BSc in International Relations (cum laude) from the University of Pavia, Italy. He is interested in HIV/AIDS and Trashware. Luca is fascinated by the Chinese society and spent 6 months in Beijing studying Chinese culture and acting at the Central Academy of Drama.

Dennis Caparros
Cavite, The Philippines

Allan Diaz Laroza
International Criminal Court / Cour Pénale Internationale
The Hague, The Netherlands

Jexkim Gacutno
Kathmandu, Nepal

Sam Lim Loong Sing
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sam is an IT advisor for a multinational company in Malaysia. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and completed his Master in Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Sheffield in UK. He has seven years of professional working experience in the IT industry. Sam has received six awards from Hewlett-Packard management for outstanding effort in coordinating and resolving critical technical and operation issues.

Jonas Hermes
Bremen, Germany