Supachai Panitchpakdi

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Supachai Panitchpakdi (2003)

Supachai Panitchpakdi ( Thai ศุภ ชัย พา นิ ช ภั ก ดิ์ , RTGS : Supphachai Phanitchaphak; born May 30, 1946 in Bangkok ) is a Thai economist and politician ( Democratic Party ). From 2002 to 2005 he was Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO). From 2005 to 2013 he was Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

Life

education

Supachai received his education at St. Gabriel's College and Triam Udom School in Bangkok. He then studied at the Netherlands School of Economics , today's Erasmus University Rotterdam , econometrics with focus on development planning. He graduated with a master's degree. In 1973 he received his doctorate in the field of personnel planning and development. His doctoral supervisor was the Nobel Prize winner Jan Tinbergen .

Career

In 1974 he started working for the Bank of Thailand , the Thai central bank. He worked in the research department, in the international finance division and in the banking supervision division. In 1986 he was elected to parliament as a member of the Democratic Party. Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda appointed him Deputy Minister of Finance. In 1988 he left politics temporarily and became a member of the board of directors and later president of the Thai Military Bank .

In 1992 he returned to politics, was appointed senator and deputy prime minister in the Chuan Leekpais government . His field of activity was economic and trade policy. In this position he represented Thailand at the signing of the Marrakesh Agreement of the Uruguay Round , which the WTO established. He was also involved in deepening Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), ASEAN and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). 1995 to 1997 his party was in the opposition. In the second government of Chuan Leekpais, he was again deputy prime minister and trade minister.

After another change of government in 2001, he became visiting professor at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne . During this time he wrote several books on globalization and world trade. As Mike Moore's successor , he became Director General of the WTO in 2002. In 2005 Pascal Lamy replaced him . Since September 1, 2005, he has held the office of Secretary General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ). After the military coup in Thailand in September 2006, he was under discussion as a possible head of a civil transitional government. However, he stayed with UNCTAD. In 2012, ASEAN recognized Supachai with the first grand prize of the Asia Cosmopolitan Awards . On September 1, 2013, he was replaced as UNCTAD Secretary General by Mukhisa Kituyi from Kenya.

Private

Supachai is married and has a son and a daughter.

Publications

  • with Mark Clifford: China and the WTO. Changing China, Changing World Trade. John Wiley & Sons, 2002
  • with P. Evans, G. Wang and E. Pernia: Outlook for China and the region. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2002
  • Globalization and Trade in the New Millennium. 2001
  • Financial development in Thailand and other developing countries. 1985
  • Educational Planning and Growth in Developing Countries. An empirical analysis. Dissertation, 1974

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Short biography of UNCTAD
  2. ↑ John Aglionby: Ex-chief of WTO tipped to lead Thailand. The Guardian, September 26, 2006.
  3. ^ Seth Mydans: Thai Military to Keep Hand in Government for Time Being. The New York Times, September 27, 2006.
  4. ↑ Narunart Prapanya: Thai junta picks prime minister. CNN International, September 29, 2006.

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Note on Thai names : This article addresses people by their first name.
personal data
SURNAME Supachai Panitchpakdi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ศุภ ชัย พา นิ ช ภั ก ดิ์; Supphachai Phanitchaphak
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Thai economist and politician; Director General of the WTO, Secretary General of UNCTAD
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Bangkok