Pasuk Phongpaichit

Pasuk Phongpaichit (born February 11, 1946 ) is a Thai economist and university professor .

Career, research and teaching

Phongpaichit studied economics at Monash University , Australia , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1969 and a Master of Arts in 1971 . She then returned to her home country as a lecturer at Chulalongkorn University , but after two years went for a Ph.D. - Studied abroad again and graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1979 . After various positions in her home country, she returned to Chulalongkorn University in 1985. In 1999 she was appointed full professor there.

Phongpaichit's work focuses in particular on the economic development of her home country and Southeast Asia as well as the effects of fraud and corruption . One of her focuses is on the Asian crisis and its effects as well as the related rise of Thaksin Shinawatra and his economic and social policy, known as Thaksinomics , which culminated in the 2006 coup in Thailand . She has collaborated with her husband Chris Baker on many publications, including works on Thai literature . Under the pseudonym Chang Noi , the couple also writes a regular column for the English-language Thai newspaper The Nation .

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