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About Peter Tan

Peter Tan is a trainer of facilitators cum senior facilitator for Disability Equality Training (DET), a participatory and solution-oriented programme to promote inclusion in society. He has been involved in this area of disability education since 2005 under the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Department of Social Welfare Malaysia collaborative projects.

He is currently  the International Coordinator of DET Forum, a network of more than 500 DET facilitators from 38 countries and territories across Asia Pacific, Africa and Latin America.

He is a resource person on Independent Living for People with Disabilities. He was trained in Malaysia and underwent further intensive training in Japan under the International Program of the Government of Japan and in Thailand at the Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability (APCD).

Peter has been actively advocating for accessibility to built environment and public transportation in Malaysia since 2005. He was part of the group that successfully pushed for the introduction of accessible stage buses and non-discriminatory air travel in Malaysia. He is often invited to speak at local and international conferences in recognition of his passion in promoting accessibility, equality and inclusion.

Seeing the need to provide a formalised, systematic and professional approach to education on disability, he established Peter Tan Training, a company specialised in providing disability-related trainings for the public and private sectors in 2013.

To date, he has conducted workshops and courses for United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP), Malaysia Aviation Group (Malaysia Airlines, Firefly, MasWings and AeroDarat Services), Prasarana Malaysia Berhad, UNICEF, ASEAN Secretariat, Department of Social Welfare Malaysia, Social Security Organisation (SOCSO), Job Coach Network Malaysia, universities, hospitals, multinational corporations and disabled people’s organisations.

He wrote extensively on disability in a weekly column called “Breaking Barriers” for The Borneo Post, the leading English newspaper in East Malaysia from 2013 to 2019 .

Peter is living with end-stage renal disease, and tetraplegia from spinal cord injury. He and his wife share their home with 3 cats in a quiet suburb of Kuala Lumpur. His interests include writing, reading, photography, Lego and fountain pens.

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