Mr Dam Trong Tuan, the Executive Director ofSocial Policy Ecology Research Institute (SPERI), will be attending the 2012 Gathering at the Findhorn Foundation. His specialised areas of knowledge are Social Capital and Grassroots Civil Society Development, and Customary Law in Watershed Natural Resources Governance.
SPERI an independent civil society institution was founded in June 5, 2006 as a merger of the three Vietnamese development organisations. They are Towards Ethnic Women (TEW, 1994), Center for Human Ecology Studies in the Highlands (CHESH, 1999) and Centre for Indigenous Knowledge Research and Development (CIRD, 2000).