Veteran jounalist, expert in ASEAN and international relation
Place of Birth: Songkhla
Family Background:
Born into a Chinese newspaper journalist family
Career:
- 1984 Joined The Nations Multimedia group
- 1993 Reuters Fellow at Oxford University
- 1995-96 Special Assistant to ASEAN Secretary General based in Jakarta
- 1999 Chairman Southeast Asian Press Alliance
- 2001 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
- 2004-07 President of the UNESCO Guillermo Carno World Press Freedom Prize jury
- 2017 Editor-in-chief of Myanmar Times
- Senior Fellow at Institute of Security and International Studies, Chulalongkorn University
Honors:
2009 ASEAN Media Award in printed medea by ASEAN Association – Thailand
Marital Status:
Married Sukanya Hantrakul