How to Manage a World Heritage Site

Dear YB / Dato’ / Datin / Dr. / Sir / Madam,


Khazanah Nasional Bhd will be organizing its Khazanah Penang Lectures #2 with Richard Engelhardt and his topic will be on “How to Manage a World Heritage Site”.

Richard is currently the UNESCO Regional Advisor for Culture for Asia and the Pacific, based in Bangkok. His professional interests include ethno-archaeology, the evolution of cultural landscapes, urban archaeology, and culture resource management. In recent years, he has held visiting lectureships at the University of Hawaii (USA), Waseda University (Japan), Payap University (Thailand), and the Royal University of Fine Arts (Cambodia).

The programme will be as follows:

Khazanah Penang Lectures #2:

“How to Manage a World Heritage Site”

by Richard Engelhardt


Programme:


Date: 18th November, 2008 (Tuesday)

Time: 9:30am – 12:00pm

Venue: Seminar Room 1

Kompleks Masyarakat Penyayang

Jalan Utama, 10450 Penang


9.30am – 10.00am Arrival & Registration

10:00am – 10:10am Opening remarks by K Gopalan

Khazanah Nasional Berhad


10.10am – 11:30am Lecture by Richard Engelhardt

“How to Manage a World Heritage Site”


11.30am – 12:00pm Q&A Session


12.00pm End Programme


On behalf of Khazanah Nasional, we would like to extend an invitation to you to attend this lecture as our guest.

We look forward to seeing you and it would be greatly appreciated if you could reply to this email to confirm your attendance.

A profile of Richard Engelhardt has been appended below for your reference.


Warmest Regards,


Aziz Kevin Lee

Associate

Khazanah Nasional Berhad


Richard Engelhardt’s Biodata:

Richard was educated in anthropology, archaeology, and the history of East, South, and Southeast Asia at Yale and Harvard Universities and at the post-graduate Population Institute of the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii. For the past 25 years, he has directed archaeology and heritage conservation projects throughout Asia and the Indo-Pacific region. Richard has also served in various executive capacities with regional professional institutions, including the Siam Society under Royal Patronage and the Hong Kong Archaeological Society. In 1981, he joined the United Nations system and has worked with the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, as well as a number of UN Specialized Agencies, including UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees), whose office in the Philippines he headed from 1986 until 1989.



From 1991 until 1994, Richard re-opened and served as Director of the UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) Office in Cambodia, where he launched the international safeguarding campaign for Angkor. In recognition of his services in the preservation of the Angkor Monuments, H.M. King Norodom Sihanouk awarded him the title of Commandeur de l'Ordre Royal du Cambodge. Richard is currently UNESCO Regional Advisor for Culture for Asia and the Pacific, based in Bangkok.


He is the author of numerous scholarly articles, books and publications, including (most recently) Two Thousand Years of Engineering Genius on the Angkor Plain (Expedition 37:3) and numerous articles on the Ethno-Archaeology of Maritime Communities in the Southeast Asian Archipelago, which are being collated and edited in a book, co-authored with Pamela Rumball Rogers, to be published by the University of Utah Press.