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Mr. Vinayagan Dharmarajah (Vina) is the Regional Director (Asia) of BirdLife International. Prior to that (2012 – 2016) Vina served as a non-executive board member of BirdLife International (Asia) Limited, the legal entity of the BirdLife Asia Secretariat. He has also served (2007 – 20616), in an honorary capacity, as the Environmental Law and Policy Coordinator and IUCN Coordinator of the Nature Society (Singapore), the BirdLife Partner in Singapore. Whilst with the Nature Society (Singapore) he helped author and coordinate the passage of IUCN resolutions on the conservation of Asian Horseshoe Crabs and the Helmeted Hornbill. He is also the author of the Nature Society (Singapore)’s code of ethics on nature. Prior to joining BirdLife as its Regional Director, Vina worked for the graduate business school INSEAD (2011 – 2016) as its Legal Counsel in Asia. Vina obtained a LL.B. Hons degree in law from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. He also has a BA. Hons degree (History) from the National University of Singapore and a LLM in International Business Law from the Sorbonne-Assas (Paris II) International Law School. Vina is also a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law.