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Narongchai Akrasanee

Chairman, Seranee Holdings Co., Ltd., and
former Minister of Commerce and Senator of Thailand

Dr. Narongchai Akrasanee, former Minister of Commerce and Senator of Thailand, and former member of APEC Eminent Persons Group and APEC Business Advisory Council is Chairman of Seranee Holdings Co., Ltd., his family owned investment holdings company with investment in property, hospitality, financial services and knowledge businesses. He is also a Director of Thailand Development Research Institute, Mekong Institute, an Honorary Advisor to the Fiscal Policy Research Institute and Vice Chairman of the Executive Board of Industrial Finance Corporation of Thailand (IFCT). Concurrently he serves as an Advisor to Minister of Finance, the Thailand Representative on the ASEM Task Force, and Chairman of the Follow-up Committee on FTA.

Dr. Narongchai has been an active participant at international seminars and conferences on international economic affairs and sub regional / regional economic cooperation including GMS, ASEAN, EAEC, APEC, WTO, etc.

In the past Dr. Narongchai served as an advisor to several Prime Ministers of Thailand, a director of a number of publicly listed companies and as a consultant to ADB, the World Bank, UNDP, the Ford Foundation etc. Dr. Narongchai obtained B.Ec. degree with Honors from University of Western Australia under Colombo Plan Scholarship, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University under the Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship. He was also President of Schiller Stamford International University during 2000-2003. He spent many years teaching economics at Thammasat University, where he served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics in 1974.