Thamanat Prompow

Thamanat Prompow (RTGS: Thamanat Phromphao; born 18 August 1965), is a Thai politician who currently serves as the Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand. He served as the Minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives of Thailand from 1 September 2023 to 3 September 2024. He formerly served as the Deputy Minister of the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry of Thailand under Second Prayut cabinet until 2021. He also served as chairman of the National Water Resources Committee (NWRC). He has long served as a political "fixer" for the military junta that assumed power in the 2014 Thai coup d'état. Thamanat has described himself as "the main artery" in Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's 17-party government coalition which Thamanat helped forge in the 2019 Thai general election.