Asian Debate Institute 2008

 Jason Jarvis

(Director of the ADI)

• Professor, Korea Development Institute School of Public Policy and Management
• Chief Adjudicator:  
• 14^th All Asian Debate Championship, Paju, Korea, 2007
• 1^st Korea High School Debate Championship, HAFS 2005
• Northeast Asian Open: 2003, 2004, 2005
• Deputy Chief Adjudicator
• 1^st Asian University Debate Championship, Singapore, 2005
• 15^th All Asian Debate Championship, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2008
• Founder of the Northeast Asian Open Debate Championship, November 2003
• Final Round Adjudicator:
• WUDC 2005 ESL Finals (Malaysia)
• All Asian Debate Championship 2006 (Langkawi, Malaysia), 2007 (Paju, Korea)
• Asian University Debate Championships 2005 (Singapore)
• Breaking Adjudicator, World University Debate Championship 2006 (Dublin), 2007 (Vancouver), and 2008 (Bangkok)
• Co-Author: An Introduction to English Language Debating in Asia, Ewha Univeristy Press: 2005.

Hafiedz Iqbal 

• Director of the Debate Unit, Universiti Teknologi Mara (Shah Alam, Malaysia)
• Chief Adjudicator, Australasian Debate Championship 2007 (Malaysia)
• Deputy Chief Adjudicator, 14^th All Asian Debate Championship 2007 (Korea)
• Top Speaker, 13^th All Asian Debate Championship 2006 (Malaysia)
• Semi-finalist, 13^th All Asian Debate Championship 2006 (Malaysia)
• Breaking Adjudicator, World University Debate Championship, Vancouver, Canada
• Champion, Malaysian National Debate Championship (2005)
• Finalist @ 17 different Malaysian Intervarsity competitions
• Faculty Member, Asian Debate Institute 2006, 2007
• Fellow, Asian Debate Institute 2005

Lin Kamaruddin

• Division of International Studies @ Ewha Woman's University, Seoul, Korea
  
• Grand Final Adjudicator, Austral Asian Intervarsity Debate Championship 2007, UT Mara, Malaysia
• Champion and Best Speaker, 1st Korea-ESU Intervarsity Debate Championship, 2007
• Champion and Best Speaker, Korea Intervarsity Debate Championship, Chung Ang University, 2006
  
• Quarterfinalist and Best Speaker, Korea Intervarsity Debate Association Championship, Kyung Hee University, 2007
• 4th Speaker and Double Octo Finalist, 14th All Asian Debate Championship, Paju, Korea, 2007
• Champion and 6th Speaker, Young Challenger Debate Forum, Paju, Korea 2006
• Faculty Member, Asian Debate Institute, 2006
• Deputy Chief Adjudicator, Northeast Asian Open, Korea University, 2006
  

Loke Wing Fatt

• Asian debate icon who travels the globe training students, citizens and professors in the art of debate!
  
• President of the Society for Associated International Debaters (SAID), a non-profit civil society organization formed in Singapore to promote debate.
• Quarterfinal Adjudicator: World University Debate Championship 2006/7, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Semifinal Adjudicator: 14^th All Asian Debate Championship, Paju, Korea 2007
• Chairman of Siglap South Community Centre Debate Club in Singapore
• Asian Debate Institute Faculty Member: 2004-2007
• Chief Debate Trainer of Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore (1994-99)
• Debate Trainer for Singapore Polytechnic, Temasek Polytechnic and Ngee Ann Polytechnic, & Singapore Management University, Singapore (1999-2004)

Peter Kipp

Logan Balavijendran

• Professor, Dept. of Business Administration, Chung Ang University (Korea)
• Champion, 13^th All Asian Debate Championship, 2006
• Champion, 12^th All Asian Debate Championship, 2005
• Chief Adjudicator; Multimedia University World Universities Debating Championship 2005, Cyberjaya, Malaysia
• Elimination Round participant/Octo Finalist (main break), and 1^st place ESL speaker, WUDC 2003
• Chief Adjudicator of Austral-Asian Championships, 2003, Cyberjaya, Malaysia
• Deputy Chief Adjudicator, All Asian Championships 2004, Bangkok, Thailand
• Grand Finalist, All Asian Championship, 2003
• AIDA Level 4 adjudicator
• Faculty Member, Asian Debate Institute 2004-2007

Sharmila Parmanand

• Ateneo De Manila University, Manila, Philippines
  
• Finalist, 2005 Austral-Asian Championship
• Semi-Finalist, 2006 Austral-Asian Championship
• 3-time Asian University Debate Championship        Champion and consistently among the Top 5                 Speakers, AUDC
• Octo-Finalist, World Universities Debate Championship 2006
• Champion, 7th Philippine National Debate Championship
• 3-time Philippine National Champion
• 2-time Best Speaker in the Philippines
• CA, 9th Philippine Debate Championship
• DCA, 2nd Philippine Intervarsity Debate Championship
  

Matt Stannard

• Director of Forensics, University of Wyoming, USA
  
• Coached the 2008 Top Speaker at the National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence
• Coached the 9th seeded elimination round participants at the 2008 National Debate Tournament
• Coached teams to tournament championships and/or top speakers at over fifty tournaments in policy-style debate (CEDA/NDT) and parliamentary-style debate (NPDA/NPTE), 1995-2007
• Won two National Championships in NPDA and NPTE parliamentary debate, coaching the top speaker at the NPTE in 2002 and 2003, NPDA finalists in 2000 and 2001, and NPTE semifinalists in 2001 and 2002
• “The Critique of Normativity and the End of Policymaking.” 1995 West Coast Negative Handbook, available through West Coast Publishing, http://www.wcdebate.com/
• “The Limits of Performative Debate: Lessons from Bertholt Brecht.” 2004 West Coast Negative Handbook, available through West Coast Publishing, http://www.wcdebate.com/

Alex Dukalskis

• PHD Candidate, Political Science, University of Notre Dame
• Willamette University Debate Team President, 2003-04 (USA)
  
• 7^th place (out of 300) in U.S. National Parliamentary         Debate Association (NPDA) Tournament, 2004; Los         Angeles.
• 13^th speaker (out of 600) in U.S. NPDA Tournament,         2004; Los Angeles
• Grand Champion, Vilnius Open Debate Tournament,         2004; Vilnius, Lithuania
• 1^st Speaker, Minsk Open Debate Tournament, 2004;         Minsk, Belarus
• International Debate Education Association    (IDEA), Program Coordinator  Seoul, South Korea. Has conducted training sessions in: 

• Mongolia, China, Bangladesh, Israel/Palestine, Turkey, Burma (Myanmar), Uganda, Czech Republic, Jordan, Malaysia and South Korea