Name of Expert:     Sisomtay Phanthavong
               Date of birth:    November 15, 1979
                  Citizenship:    Lao
                     Location:    Vientiane, Laos
                        Gender:    Male
             Marital Status:    Married
                   Languages:    Lao, Thai, English and a little french
                               Tel:    (020) 2223 8910, 9987 5343 & (031) 252 232
            E-mail Address:    sisomtay@gmail.com
                      Website:   http://sisomtay.googlepages.com/

        I was born on a farm some seven kilometer outside of Pakse city center, on November 15, 1979. I was the third born of 8 children for four girls and four boys. Our parent was farmer. We lived in a small house with not much of anything, I had walked about the four kilometer for three years going to grade school, and then cycled to a high school about 5 kilometer from where I lived.

 

        After graduating from high school in 1999, I went to Vientiane to get my bachelor’s degree of business administration at Comcenter College, It's "the most worthwhile time in life" I learned to do many things which I never do before, I had a great chance to learn about life, the activities of life, meeting with friends and learning a lot of things more than I can say, but I finally graduated nearly 6 years later, Better than never, as my father used to say.

 

        And then early of 2006, I was offered a job as a document controller assistant at Num Theun 2 Hydroelectric Project in Gnommalat District of Khammouane Province. I was very happy in working with this project. 

       I married in 2008 and my wife gave birth a baby in 2009, so I move to vientiane to take care of my family, at that time, I was offered a job at TOTO insurance company in Vientiane and I was offered a job at Lao Institute for renewable energy as a administrative officer in 2010.

       In early 2011, I was offered a job at United Nation World Food Programme (UNWFP) for temporary job as a Logistics assistant (Logistics Capacity Assessment), Programme assistant ( Programme Data Entry) and ITC assistant (Inventory Data Entry) .

 

        In the Middle 2011, UNWFP offered me a job a againd as a Logistics Assistant and the duty station is in Savanh distict, Saravanh Province.

        

        Right now, I'm very happy with working at UN WFP, as a Logistics Assistant at Saravan Province.

 

        If I have a chance to study in the future, I will go back to school to get the Master's degree of Business Administration (MBA)