Chalongphob Sussangkarn ( th, ฉลองภพ สุสังกร์กาญจน์, , born 1950) is a Thai economist. He was the President of the

Thailand Development Research Institute The Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI – th, สถาบันวิจัยเพื่อการพัฒนาประเทศไทย) is a non-profit non-government Thai policy think tank focused on social and economic de ...

and later served as Minister of Finance in Surayud Chulanont's military junta. An ethnic Chinese of

Hainanese Hainanese (Hainan Romanised: ', Hainanese Pinyin: ',), also known as Qióngwén, Heng2 vun2 () or Qióngyǔ, Heng2 yi2 (), is a group of Min Chinese varieties spoken in the southern Chinese island province of Hainan and Overseas Chinese su ...

origin, He replaced Pridiyathorn Devakula after Pridiyathorn abruptly resigned. Chalongphob joined several other TDRI-affiliated individuals who had Cabinet-level seats in the junta, including Deputy Prime Minister and Industry Minister Kosit Panpiemras and Energy Minister

Piyasvasti Amranand Piyasvasti Amranand ( th, ปิยสวัสดิ์ อัมระนันทน์; Royal Thai General System of Transcription, RTGS: ''Piyasawat Ammaranan''), born 11 July 1953) was Thailand's Ministry of Energy (Thailand), Energy Ministe ...

. Prior to joining the cabinet, Chalongphob had no experience in government and was an economist.

Biography

Education and career

Chalongphob received BA and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge. After graduation, he taught at the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley during 1977–79. He later joined the World Bank in Washington, D.C., where he served from 1979 to 1985. He then returned to Thailand to work as an economist at the

(TDRI). Dr. Sussangkarn served as the President of TDRI from 1996 up until 2007. He resigned from his post in early March 2007 in order to accept appointment as finance minister, replacing Pridiyathorn Devakula, who abruptly resigned. In February 2008, Sussangkarn returned to the TDRI to work as a researcher.

Policies

Chalongphob's policy stance was pro-business, and included: *Being against the Surayud government's capital control policy, *Support for greater liberalization of foreign investment in Thailand, and *Being against the Thaksin government's populist economic policies.The Nation
Chalongphob a pro-market academic for a reeling economy
9 March 2007

References

Online ProfileTDRI"Chalongphob is appointed as new finance minister." ''The Nation'' 03-07-2007"Test Times." ''The Nation'' 03-07-2007

External links

whoswho-thailand.com page for Chalongphob Sussangkarn
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