About us

Dewi has extensive experience with gender and human rights issues, having worked with various NGOs and other human rights organizations since in 1992. Special areas of interest have included community development, human rights, oral history, and gender issues including women and children development. Projects she has been involved with have ranged from grass root level such as setting up a women’s cooperative for handicrafts in rural villages in Java to having Co-founded a women’s resource centre Mitra Wacana in Yogyakarta.

More recently she has worked regionally to build capacities of NGOs and human rights defenders in the East Asia regions with special focus on supporting and strengthening the effectiveness of human rights regional mechanisms. Her commitment is to implement the goal of gender equality by ensuring the equal participation and full involvement of women and men in all aspects of work.

Dewi holds a Master of Human Rights and Democratization from Sydney University, having been accepted into their scholarship program in 2011. She also holds a BA Honours in History and Politics from Wollongong University, Australia, and a Diploma Certificate on Administration Development from the Faculty of Economics at Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia. Dewi is based in Bangkok and has been an international consultant with Rapid Asia since 2010.

Toru has extensive experience in project management roles that include project implementation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation in the human rights and development sectors. Toru has been in Thailand since 2009 and has worked with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as well as inter-governmental organization (IGO). His areas of interest include human security issues in Asia Pacific, including ethnic conflict and indigenous development and self-determination, as well as environmental security and sustainable development. Toru has also published a monograph as well as contributed several articles for various publications.

Toru has been involved with a project that supports destitute children and women from Burma and the local community in Thailand’s Kanchanaburi province, where he developed and implemented social work and income generation projects. Later on, Toru worked regionally and supported capacity building for Asian NGOs in effective engagement with respective national human rights institutions (NHRIs) and their regional and international bodies. More recently, Toru coordinated the implementation of capacity building and human resource development projects focusing on regional cooperation and integration in the greater-Mekong subregion (GMS), with a special focus on economic cooperation and competitiveness. Toru managed regional projects funded by various development partners in cooperation and collaboration with public and private stakeholders at the provincial, national, regional, and international levels in GMS countries and beyond.

Toru holds a Master of Arts (M.A.) in International Relations and Security Studies from the University of Waikato (first class honors). Toru has been with Rapid Asia since November 2020 as Senior Project Executive.

Rawiwan has over 8 years of working experience with both intergovernmental agencies and international organizations as well as a strong background in an academic field. Areas of interest have included environmental issues, climate change adaptation as well as sustainable agriculture development.

Most recently, she was involved in a collaboration project between the Thai and Japanese governments to strengthen the capacity of local Arabica coffee farmers and agricultural cooperatives in the Northern part of Thailand by developing value-added strategies and quality control protocols for coffee quality improvement. She also engaged with private sector partnerships to improve sustainable practice in luxury hotels, including awareness raising programs among hotel staff and guests, and supports local coastal communities such as mangrove restoration and sustainable seafood sourcing. She gained experience during her time as a field coordinator for International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), to implement a project on conserving transboundary dolphin population along with Thai and Cambodian water. She experienced working regionally with NGOs in Great Mekong Sub-region (GMS) countries on water resource management and climate change adaption.

She participated as one of the selected young fellowships from Thailand to join the HANDs project to learn about Disaster Risk Reduction and Environment Education, funded by Japan Foundation in 2018.

Rawiwan graduated Master degree in Environmental Engineering from Changwon National University in Changwon, South Korea in 2014. During her years in South Korea, she published and presented several research papers related to microalgae membrane bioreactors for wastewater treatment. Besides studying, she volunteered in many cross-cultural awareness programs. She gained her Bachelor of Science, majoring in Genetics from Kasetsart University in 2008.

Rawiwan has been with Rapid Asia since July 2022 as Senior Project Executive.

Rinyuda has several years of experience in Business and Technology consulting, in which she developed expertise in project management. In addition, she has a strong interest in local economic development and equal access to education. Rinyuda has a multicultural background and spent time studying/working in the U.S., the UK, India, Russia, and Japan.
In 2016, Rinyuda was involved with a social enterprise in Thailand to develop a business plan to launch their organic rice products. As a result, she developed a strong interest in local economic development. After completing her B.A. in Economics and Russian Language from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR, USA, she started her career in business and technology consulting, which allowed her to develop transferable skills in delivering successful projects in social development. From 2019 to 2021, she volunteered her time in two educational NGOs in Bangkok, Thailand, committed to improving educational access and equality in Thailand.
During her studies, she wrote her Master’s dissertation on the Participatory development approach and its Local Economic Development (LED) impact on Sakon Nakhon province by using the case study of the E-San Gastronomy initiative. In addition, Rinyuda is committed to creating positive changes through her work with Rapid Asia.
Rinyuda holds an MSC in Local Economic Development (Merit) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK, and a B.A. in Economics with a Russian Language minor from Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR, USA.

Andy worked as Director with NFO & TNS Global before setting up BMRS Asia in Bangkok with other local research professionals in 2004. He started work in the research industry in England in 1993, with a strong focus on customer satisfaction and service research. Prior to this, he worked in both the retail and hospitality sector, managing locations across the UK. Resident in Thailand since 1997 with an in-depth knowledge of Thai and other Asian cultures, Andy combines strong research, project management and intuitive skills with a working knowledge of most types of research methodologies.

Andy was a founding member of the TMRS (Thailand Marketing Research Society) and is an active member of ESOMAR (the world organization for marketing research professionals).

Phanno has an excellent understanding of the Khmer people from all walks of life, and his English skills enable him to provide deep insights to our clients.  Phanno has a BA in Sociology and English Literature and a Master of Business Administration, and has been with BMRS since 2011 and speaks fluent English. In addition, he brings a wealth of experience with project management in Cambodia, having been involved with various projects on social development, both quantitative and qualitative, across all provinces in Cambodia. He started his career as a B2B interviewer before quickly moving to a Supervisory role. From there, his skills were further developed, and he has now become Country Director.

Phanno has been instrumental in setting up the field procedures at BMRS Asia, making sure they adhere to international best practice standards and align with the ethical principles set by ESOMAR. This also includes quality control procedures for data collection and data management. As a testament to his work, BMRS Asia has gained a reputation for delivering consistent data quality. As a testament to this, BMRS Asia has worked with Rapid Asia since 2013 on various research projects in Cambodia. He also has deep knowledge about the Cambodian landscape and can provide insight into how, where and who, when it comes to data collection. He also has extensive experience in moderating focus groups and conducting IDI’s covering a wide range of topics among various target groups.

Having graduated Master in Business Administration, Long now has more than nine years of experience in social and marketing research. He used to work for many research firms such as  Feedback, CMRD, MSD, and RealTime data solutions. Also, he used to work as a senior research officer at BBC Media Action. Starting his experience working as a B2B interviewer, he then progressed to be a Supervisor before moving on to be in charge of Quality Control and other matters relating to fieldwork management. His keen eye for detail and numbers makes him a perfect choice to ensure that data collection quality is maintained throughout all of our projects. In terms of qualitative research, Long also lends his hand to conducting IDI’s, Home Visits and FGD’s for various topics such as usage & attitude, branding, lifestyle, concept tests, shopping habits and human trafficking. He also turns his hand in SPSS and CAPI scripting for more than five years. He can control data, clean, review and produced output for data analysis and reporting.

Mavirak graduated in Sociology from the Royal University of Phnom Penh. He now has more than nine years of experience in social and marketing research. Virak has more than six years of experience in research with two years of data processing with Kantar TNS Cambodia. During his research career, he has been involved in many data processing works and project supervisor for both commercial and social research clients. For social research, Virak has worked for UNICEF, World Bank, ADB, IFES, GIZ, DAI, Winrock, World Vision, PATH and DDD, to name a few. He has joined BMRS Asia Cambodia in 2018 as Senior Quality Controller and handle many projects, including automotive, agriculture sector and agriculture, bank, microfinance, SME, media, and youth. He is a crucial person for fieldwork quality assurance and assists the fieldwork team to achieve good quality data collection.  Virak is also responsible for managing project tools, doing desk reviews, conducting medium and high-level key informant interviews, and coordinating and monitoring focus group discussion.