No. 24 - Thitinan Pongsudhirak

Thai. Professor and Director of the Institute for Science and International Security at Chulalongkorn University. Thitinan was born in Thailand and grew up in a multilingual and multicultural background, attended high school and university in California, followed by post-graduate studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the London School of Economics where he obtained his Ph.D. on the political economy of the 1997 Thai financial crisis, which was awarded the UK’s Best Dissertation Prize. Thitinan has held visiting positions at SAIS, Stanford University, Yangon University, Victoria University in New Zealand, and University of Tubingen in Germany, and currently serves on several editorial boards of academic journals. He has authored a host of articles, books, book chapters and over 1,000 op-eds in mass media such as The Bangkok Post, The Straits times, Nikkei Asian Review, South China Morning Post, International New York times, and Project Syndicate. His sought-after views have appeared in international media including CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Aljazeera, and others. Thitinan regularly provides briefings to investors, business conferences, diplomatic missions, and corporate boards on the domestic politics and geopolitics of Thailand and ASEAN. In 2015, he was awarded a prize for excellence in opinion writing from Society of Publishers in Asia; in March 2018, he was appointed ASEAN@50 Fellow by New Zealand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade; and in May 2019, he was selected as Australia-ASEAN Fellow at Sydney’s Lowy Institute.

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