About Me

After many years in private practice, government and semi-government service and industry in Australia, as an engineer with some additional study in accountancy, I too time out and worked as a photographer in Melbourne Australia where I won several awards and participated in a number of exhibitions of my work. At the end I returned to engineering where worked in Kosovo from 1999 to 2001 with ADRA International as Shelter Coordinator managing USAid and EU reconstruction projects. From 2002 to 2005 I was engaged in Afghanistan, initially with on a US State Department (INL) funded program to restore alternative livelihood sources in the opium production areas of Nangahar. Following this I assumed a role in Kandahar with UNDP in southern Afghanistan managing a large-scale cash-for-work program funded by the Government of Japan and the EU to meet the immediate needs of the communities economic recovery eventually as Advisor to the Minister for Urban Development and managing the program in all its locations across Afghanistan. Towards the end of this tour of Afghanistan I was engaged with UNDP as Senior Advisor to the Minister for Rural Rehabilitation and Development on the multi donor funded National Area Based Development Program. In 2005 I was engaged with UNDP on a multi donor Flash Appeal to once more initiate a large-scale cash-for-work recovery and reconstruction program.  

It was during 2005 that I was privileged to be awarded with the Pride of Australia - Peace Medal, something that made my mother proud of her only son. For the moment, I am completing a contract in Afghanistan and in September will return to Malaysia where I have purchased a house in World Heritage zone that I will spend the next three months renovating.

In 2005 I was awarded the inaugural Pride of Australia - Peace Award.

I write from a humanitarian and liberal perspective.