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Ms. Sallie C.W. Yang is currently Legal Specialist of USAID Wildlife Asia, Freeland, USAID Contractor, providing technical support on national legislative and policy reform to increase political will and commitment of focal countries for countering wildlife crime. She implemented the “ASEAN Legal Support Task Force to Fight Transnational Organized Wildlife Crime” at Freeland, which included capacity building and research initiatives for investigating and prosecuting transnational wildlife trafficking in Southeast Asia. She managed the development of the “ASEAN Handbook on Legal Cooperation to Combat Wildlife Crime”. She co-authored with Associate Professor Lye Lin-Heng a paper on “Illegal Trade in Endangered Forest and Marine Species – Enhancing Laws and Enforcement: A Southeast Asian Perspective”. Sallie qualified in the UK as a barrister-at-law and Singapore as an advocate and solicitor. Prior to joining Freeland, she has more than 18 years’ experience as a litigation lawyer and legal counsel for MNCs in infrastructure, environmental and renewable energy sectors. Now based in Bangkok, Thailand, she has lived and worked in Singapore, the UK, Spain, Italy, Denmark and Argentina.She holds a LLB (Hons) from the University of London, UK and MSc in Environment Management from NUS. She is an appointed Member of the IUCN WCEL.