The American Chamber of Commerce in Myanmar

The American Chamber of Commerce in Myanmar (AMCHAM Myanmar) was established on October 31, 2013. To date, more than 170 companies employing over 20,000 Myanmar nationals have joined the Chamber. These companies represent a diverse collection of industries and nationalities, with a common goal to expand American business and promote the highest business standards in Myanmar.

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Please join AMCHAM Myanmar for our upcoming panel briefing on the security situation in Myanmar with a special emphasis for businesses operations in Myanmar and the overall security condition in Myanmar.


Our expert speakers Adam Castillo, Jason Tower, and Gwen Robinson will provide an overview about the latest developments in Myanmar. They will brief AMCHAM Members on the current security situation, recent changes in conflict dynamics, and on Myanmar's international relations. The discussion will highlight special considerations that are unique for the Myanmar context. There will be time for Q+A at the end of the panel.


This session will be conducted under Chatham House Rule and is off-the-record. This session is not open to members of the press. For press inquiries, please contact service@amchammyanmar.com.


  • Date and Time: June 7, 9:30 am to 11 am (Myanmar Time)
  • Venue: Zoom Webinar. A webinar link will be sent to you in advance.
  • Tickets: FREE for AMCHAM Myanmar Members
  • Booking deadline: June 6, 2 pm (Myanmar Time)
  • Capacity is limited and tickets are on a first-come-first-serve basis
  • Prior booking is required and no walk ins accepted.
  • Tickets are non-transferable.
  • This event is open to AMCHAM Myanmar members only.

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Main Speakers

Adam Castillo

Managing Director of Atalian Global Services Myanmar


Adam founded a security company in Myanmar in 2013. He then partnered with ATALIAN Global Services – a global multi-national - in 2016. He is a former US Marine Corps Officer with combat operational experience in Afghanistan and operational experience in Korea. He has a masters in international relations with a focus on international terrorism. Based in Myanmar since 2013, he currently serves on the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) Steering Committee since its inception in 2018. He is currently serving on the Board of Governors at AMCHAM Myanmar as Vice President.

Jason Tower

Burma Country Director of United States Institute of Peace


Jason Tower is the Country Director for the Burma Program of the United States Institute of Peace. Jason has 20 years of experience working on conflict and security issues in China and Southeast Asia. From 2009 to 2017, he worked to establish the Beijing office of the American Friends Service Committee and initiated programming across north and southeast Asia on the impacts of cross-border investments on conflict dynamics. During this time, Jason also worked extensively in Burma on peace and security issues. From 2018 to 2019, he served as Southeast Asia program manager for the PeaceNexus Foundation, managing a portfolio of grants and partnerships in China, Burma, and Cambodia. Since 2019, Jason's research has shifted to focus on a range of issues at the nexus of crime and conflict in Southeast Asia. Recent publications include a study of the impacts of Chinese transnational criminal networks on conflict in Burma and regional security across Southeast Asia; a report on criminal activity on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and a review of the impacts of the BRI on conflict. Jason has also published more than half a dozen articles analyzing the impacts of the Myanmar coup, including on regional security in Asia. Jason completed his undergraduate work in economics and international studies at St. Louis University, and his graduate studies in political science and Asian studies at the University of Michigan. He is fluent in Mandarin, and has been named a Fulbright research student, a Fulbright-Hays scholar, and a Harvard-Yenching fellow.

Gwen Robinson

Editor-at-Large at Nikkei Asia


Gwen Robinson is Editor-at-Large of Nikkei Asia, the English-language journal and website of Japanese media group Nikkei Inc. (https://asia.nikkei.com/​) and a former president of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand. She is also a senior fellow at the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, where she specializes in the politics and economics of Myanmar and more broadly mainland Southeast Asia.


Before joining Nikkei as founding chief editor in 2014 she was a senior editor and correspondent with the Financial Times for 19 years, from 1995 to 2014, in Asia, Europe and the US where she was the FT's Comment editor, US news editor and Online news editor, among other roles. Her last FT post was Bangkok bureau chief for Southeast Asia (2011-14). She was a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney in 2005.


In 1993-95, she was North Asia correspondent for The Times of London. In the 1980s, she covered Southeast Asia for US, Australian and UK media organizations.