Philip
Mathews joined ISIS as Assistant Director-General in 1996. Bachelor
of Arts degree from the University of Malaya in 1967. He is a member
of AIM (Asian Institute of Management, Manila) and Institute of
Public Relations, Malaysia. As Head, Bureau of Science, Technology
and the Environment, he has overall responsibility for following
projects: Trade and Environment, National Energy Study,
Environmental Policy studies, Environmental management, ASEAN
Environmental Accounting, Biodiversity Country Study, Environment
and Natural Resources Database.
He is also Head, Information Technology Committee, and Head, Centre
for Information Studies. He is also Co-Director of the Centre for
International Dialogue. Mr. Mathews joined the New Straits Times as
Journalist in 1967 and held several senior positions during his 27
year career with the organisation.
He left the NST Group in 1994 to join the Asian Productivity
Organisation (APO), an inter-governmental organisation based in
Tokyo as Head of its Information and Public Relations Division. He
has presented several papers in international conferences on the
media and on environment issues. He attended UNCED Conference in
Rio, Brazil, June 1992 in his capacity as Chairman of the Asia
Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists. His publications include
Who 's Watching the Watchers? (Paper presented at International
Seminar on the US Media: Impact on the Contemporary World, June,
1988 Kuala Lumpur), The Mar Thoma Church, A Malaysian Perspective,
1986. Reporting on the Environment: A Handbook for Malaysian
Journalists (Editor), Autobiography of Dr. V.A. Thomas (Editor) and
The Guinness Stout Effort Awards, (Editor). He was given the Green
Pen Award by the Asia Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists for
his contribution to environmental journalism.
Philip
Mathews joined ISIS as Assistant Director-General in 1996. Bachelor
of Arts degree from the University of Malaya in 1967. He is a member
of AIM (Asian Institute of Management, Manila) and Institute of
Public Relations, Malaysia. As Head, Bureau of Science, Technology
and the Environment, he has overall responsibility for following
projects: Trade and Environment, National Energy Study,
Environmental Policy studies, Environmental management, ASEAN
Environmental Accounting, Biodiversity Country Study, Environment
and Natural Resources Database. 
