Sharing Hope invites you to our 2025 Business Breakfast: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Join us for a light buffet breakfast as we look back on 15 years of partnership with Karen communities on the Thai-Myanmar border, and look forward towards new opportunities for the future.

We are excited to have Professor Sean Turnell join us as our Keynote speaker. Economic advisor to Myanmar’s democratic government from 2016 to 2021, and imprisoned for 650 days alongside the democratic leadership following the 2021 military coup, Sean Turnell is uniquely placed to share about his experiences in Myanmar and the current challenges facing Myanmar’s people.

Tickets

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All profits from the Business Breakfast will contribute to essential community development and aid projects on the Thai-Myanmar border, supporting refugee and internally displaced communities facing poverty and oppression to access education, food and medical support.

Keynote Speaker

Introducing Professor Sean Turnell!

Sean Turnell served as economic adviser to Myanmar’s democratic government from 2016 to 2021.

Following the military coup that took place in Myanmar in February 2021, Sean was imprisoned alongside Myanmar’s democratic leadership. After 650 days of incarceration and severe ill-treatment, he was finally released in November 2022.

Sean has been a senior analyst at the Reserve Bank of Australia, a Professor of Economics at Macquarie University, a consultant to a range of international institutions (including the IMF and World Bank), and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney.

Sean has written extensively on macroeconomic policymaking, economic reform, and the role of financial institutions in economic development, with a special focus on Australia, Myanmar, and the Indo-Pacific. His book on Myanmar’s monetary and financial history, Fiery Dragons, was published in 2009. In 2023 Penguin published Sean’s book on his experience of being a captive in Myanmar, An Unlikely Prisoner. His new book on economic reform in Myanmar, The Best Laid Plans, has also just been published by Penguin/Lowy Institute.

We thank Sean Turnell for joining us.

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