The Advisory Commission on Rakhine State was headquartered in Yangon, Myanmar, with administrative support from the Kofi Annan Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland.

Andreas Indregard most recently served as Country Director for Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) in Myanmar from 2011 to 2014. Prior to this, he worked as Senior Analyst for the International Crisis Group in Israel/ Palestine and with UN-OCHA in Cote d’Ivoire and Israel/Palestine. He also served as the Head of the Norwegian contingent to Temporary International Presence in Hebron (THIP) in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Mr. Indregard is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in Boston, Massachusetts, University of Oslo and University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg. He has studied Arabic, history and international relations.