PROFILE: Yasmin "YAS" Busran-Lao

Date of Birth: March 31, 1962
Place of Birth: Marawi City
Provincial Address: Lanao del Sur

Civil Status: Widowed

Liberal Party (LP)

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Educational Attainment

• She finished Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the Far Eastern University in Manila and pursued higher education in Clinical-Counseling Psychology from the Ateneo de Manila University.
• She took up masteral units in Muslim Personal Laws from the King Faisal Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies in Mindanao State University in Marawi City.
• Busran-Lao also took up masteral units in Islamic Studies from the Institute of Islamic Studies, Asian Center of the University of the Philippines.

Career Timeline

1983-1984: As a child specialist, she worked for Creative Parenthood at the Manila Polo Club in Forbes Park, Makati. In the same year, she was a research assistant for the Department of Foreign Languages of the De La Salle University.

1988-1997: She was a faculty member of the Psychology department of the Mindanao State University.

1996-1997: She became director for the MSU-NGO Assistance Center of the Mindanao State University in Marawi City.

1997-1998: For a year, she was social development or Gender Equity Adviser of the local government support program of the Canadian International Development Agency.

1997-2009: She established the Al-Mujadilah Development Foundation in 1997 and became its Executive Director. In 1997, she also co-founded the Nisa Ul-Haqq Fi Bangsamoro (Women for Truth and Justice in the Bangsamoro).

1998: Busran-Lao had done assessment missions for World Bank and Oxfam.

2001: She was head executive assistant of the secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development. Afterwards, she headed the Operations secretariat of the INTERACT-Mindanao, a project of the DSWD.

2002: She was a participation consultant for the proposed ARMM social fund for Peace and Development of the World Bank.

2003-2005: She was Muslim Women Sectoral representative of the National Anti-poverty Commission. She was also an editorial board member of the Rights at Home Project of the International Studies on Islam in the Modern World (ISIM).

2006: Busran-Lao was a Gender and Participation consultant for the Health Design Team for ARMM by the USAID-OPHN, Philipines.

2007: She was a consultant on Islam and Gender Training for the Local Governance Support Program-ARMM (LGSPA) organized by the Canadian International Development Agency.

2006: She was a consultant on Muslim Women’s Political Participation in ARMM, Indonesia, and Malaysia for the National Democratic Institute.

2008-2009: She was member of the National Steering Committee of the Local Governance Support Program-ARMM (LGSPA) in the Canadian International Development Agency.

Awards

• Benigno S. Aquino Jr. Fellowship for Professional Development Award given by the American embassy and the Benigno S. Aquino Foundation
• 2006 Helen Rodriguez Trias Award for Gender Equity, Transformative Family Planning/Reproductive Health Leadership Program, International Family Planning Leadership Program, International Health Program, Sta. Cruz, California, USA  (September 15, 2006)
• Top 25 “Women of Substance” by Marie Claire Magazine ( 2006) 

Sources: Yasmin Busrao-Lao official social networking sites