16th International Conference on The Future of Asia

Born on April 10, 1950

Chalongphob Sussangkarn is currently Distinguished Fellow of the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), a private non-profit policy research institute based in Bangkok. He obtained his Bachelor's degree through Ph.D. in economics from Cambridge University, UK. After obtaining his Ph.D., he taught in the department of economics of the University of California, Berkeley for two years (1977-1979), then worked at the research department of the World Bank in Washington D.C. for six years (1979-1985). He returned to Thailand to join TDRI in 1985. Dr. Chalongphob was appointed President of TDRI in 1996, a post he held until he was appointed Thailand's Minister of Finance in March 2007. After ending his duties as Minister of Finance in February 2008, he rejoined TDRI.

Dr. Chalongphob is a Chairman of the Executive Board of the Economic Society of Thailand and sits on the advisory panel of a number of journals, such as the Asia-Pacific Development Journal (published by ESCAP, Bangkok), the ASEAN Economic Bulletin (ISEAS, Singapore), the Asian Development Review (ADB, Manila), and the Asian Economic Policy Review (Japan Center for Economic Research). Dr. Chalongphob is also the Regional Coordinator of the East Asian Development Network (EADN), the regional network partner of the Global Development Network (GDN) in East Asia. In 2004, Dr. Chalongphob was awarded the National Outstanding Researcher Award for Economics from the National Research Council of Thailand.