lilianne@geutanyoefoundation.org
Lilianne Fan is a leading expert on the Rohingya crisis, Myanmar and the role of ASEAN. She is Head of the Secretariat of the Malaysian Advisory Group on Myanmar, chaired by Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar, former Foreign Minister of Malaysia. An anthropologist with over 25 years’ experience in armed conflict, displacement, and humanitarian crises, Lilianne has been leading the Secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group Malaysia on Refugee Policy since 2018. She is Co-Director of refugee protection organisation Geutanyoe Malaysia. She also serves as Asia Coordinator of the Gaza Scholarship Initiative, supporting Palestinian students to access higher education in Malaysia and in other Asian countries.
Between 2008-2010 Lilianne served in Myanmar as Advisor to the ASEAN Special Envoy for Post-Nargis Recovery, and from 2005-2008 in Aceh as Advisor to the former Governor on post-conflict recovery following the signing of the Helsinki MoU between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia. She co-founded the humanitarian organisation Geutanyoe Malaysia that works with communities affected by war and persecution including from Myanmar, Palestine, Syria, Afghanistan, and Yemen. She served as Commissioner on the Lancet Commission for Health and Human Rights from 2020 to 2022. Lilianne holds an MA in Anthropology from Columbia University, New York.
