ABOUT EROPA
EROPA Executive Council Officers
01 January 2014 - 31 December 2015
Chair: Mr. Morio Sakamoto
President, Local Autonomy College (Japan)
1st Vice-Chair: Dr. Nguyen Dang Thanh
President, National Academy of Public Administration
(Vietnam)
2nd Vice-Chair: Dr. Jiang Wu
President, Chinese Academy of Personnel Science (PR
China)
3rd Vice-Chair: Mr. Durga Nidhi Sharma
Secretary, Ministry of General Administration (Nepal)
Individual Member Representatives:
Dr. Mark Hayllar (Hong Kong SAR)
Prof. Akio Kamiko (Japan)
Dr. April Dream Teodosio (Philippines)
Group Member Representatives:
Administrative Sciences Department, University of
Indonesia (Indonesia)
Council of Local Authorities for
International Relations (Japan)
Career Executive Service Board (Philippines)
EROPA Auditor:
Mr. Teguh Kurniawan (Indonesia)
EROPA Secretary-General:
Dr. Orlando S. Mercado
The Eastern Regional Organization for
Public Administration (EROPA)
is an organization of states,
groups and individuals in
the general area of Asia
and the Pacific. The
Organization
came into being in
1960, in response to a
common desire among
developing countries
to promote regional
cooperation in improving
knowledge, systems and
practices of government administration to help accelerate
economic and social development. It was the first organization
in the region to be devoted to the development of public
administration in order to advance the economic and social
development of countries in Asia and the Pacific. EROPA
consists of state members in the region, institutions in the
area such as institutes or schools of public administration,
universities, agencies and municipal corporations and
individuals whose achievements in the field of governance
and public administration are recognized.
EROPA endeavors to achieve its objectives through regional
conferences, seminars, training programs, and publications.
Its activities are carried out through the EROPA headquarters
in Manila, as well as through its three regional centers,
namely the EROPA Development Management Center in
Gyeonggi Province, Korea; the EROPA Local Government
Center in Tokyo, Japan; the EROPA Training Center in
New Delhi, India; and the EROPA E-Government Research
Center in Beijing, China.
Activities of EROPA have been held in different parts of
the region. Meetings, conferences and seminars have been
conducted in Manila, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Bangkok, New
Delhi, Seoul, Taipei, Tehran, Jakarta, Kathmandu, Kuala
Lumpur, Beijing, Macau, Hanoi, Canberra, Samoa, and
Bandar Seri Begawan.
As one of the leading organizations in the Asia-Pacific
region, EROPA has been accredited by the United Nations
Public Administration Network (UNPAN) as one of the
latter’s Online Regional Centers (ORCs). As such, the
EROPA serves as one of UNPAN’s contributors in the AsiaPacific region in keeping an updated data