FELIZCO Lot

lot@oxfam.org.hk

Coordinator of Policy and Campaigns in Oxfam Hong Kong, Lot is also a Fellow of the Community-Based Coastal Resource Management Resource Center of the College of Social Work and Community Development at the University of the Philippines. Prior to her involvement with Oxfam Hong Kong, she worked part time for ARENA, first as a volunteer, then as fulltime staff where, among other things, she coordinated its project on Capital Flows and organized the international and national workshops on Short-Term Capital Flows: Arresting Speculation and Volatility. She also worked as a Freelance Consultant to various international organizations. In this capacity, she undertook gender policy and programme audits, organizational audits, and capability-building on organization development and participatory rural development.

Lot was Country Representative for the Philippines of Oxfam Great Britain from 1995-1999, Deputy Executive Director of the Citizen's Disaster Response Center from 1988-1990 and Deputy Secretary General Internal Affairs for the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP-Peasant Movement of the Philippines) from the years 1985-1988.

Lot obtained her MA in Social Anthropology of Development in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in the University of London and has a long history of activism and development work.

Lot is a member of the ARENA Executive Board 2003 - 2006.