Board of Directors
Dr. Daniel Ehrlich is a physicist, entrepreneur, and founder of the Arts Mandalay Foundation. He co-founded the Mintha Theater in Mandalay in 2006. Dr. Ehrlich has directed several research laboratories at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and chaired numerous scientific conferences in the US and Europe. As an entrepreneur, he founded three high-technology companies in semiconductors and biomedicine. He is currently on the faculty at Boston University and serves as Executive Director of Arts Mandalay Foundation.
Dr. Ehrlich is the author of Backstage Mandalay: The Netherworld of Burmese Performing Arts...
"a love letter to Myanmar and a plea to the Asian nation as it modernizes to resist forgetting the great ceremonies that uniquely define it in the world...."
The book is available at Amazon.com and at https://backstagemandalay.wordpress.com
Dr. Lilian Handlin is a widely published historian with a research affiliation
to Harvard University and many years of scholarly work in Myanmar. Among her publications is a four-volume History of Liberty in America (New York, Harper and Row, 1986 - 1994) co-authored with her husband, Oscar Handlin. Dr. Handlin is co-editor of the Journal of Burma Studies and is trying to unravel the social history of Pagan, a documented chapter in Myanmar’s long history,
covering the 10th to the 13th centuries. She can be reached at [email protected]
Gavin Tun is a Registered Architect and LEED Accredited Professional, born in Burma and a graduate of the Rangoon Institute of Technology. Gavin also studied in the United States and worked in Chicago for most of his career. Gavin served in various roles managing institutional projects, predominantly in academia including Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, for both US and international projects. Gavin learned Burmese Xylophone (Pattalya) in his youth and later learned to play the blues in Chicago. Now living in southern Spain, Gavin joins AMF to support the preservation of traditional performing arts of Myanmar.
Thomas Bergreen is an entrepreneur formerly based in Yangon, Myanmar. He studied philosophy and religion at Hobart & William Smith colleges, and went on to own and operate two restaurants in his native New York City. As a young person he read Orwell, Kipling and Hemingway, and was fascinated with the people and places in their books.He first traveled to Myanmar in 2002, where the characters he'd imagined from the books all came to life. He is a big fan of the wonderful people and culture of Myanmar.
Katy Ehrlich is an international marketing and development professional working with business and non-profit organizations to raise funds, expand markets, and engage supporters through a variety of channels. For more than two decades, she served as a public relations strategist and writer working with Microsoft and other high-technology companies; previously she was based in Asia with Ogilvy & Mather PR and companies trading in China. Katy is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and has worked with clients in China, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong.
