ASEAN Outstanding Scientist and Technologist Award
The ASEAN Outstanding Scientist and Technologist Award is a triennial award that was established by the ASEAN Committee on Science and Technology in the early 1990s. It is given to scientists and technologists in ASEAN member countries whose outstanding S&T achievements have been nationally and internationally recognized.
To qualify a nominee must satisfy the following minimum criteria:
- Must hold a nationality of an ASEAN member country;
- Must be recommended for final judging by the COST National Secretariat of his or her country, which should ideally recommend only one nominee ;
- Should be individual, not group of individuals;
- Must be living, preferably actively working scientists or technologists, with at least 5 years of active contribution to the progress of science and technology;
- Must have respectable moral character.