Speaker

Suriyon

Thunkijjanukij

Senior Advisor

Office of the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC)

Biography

Suriyon has been working in Thailand’s national development planing agency for more than37 years. His area of works have been in regional development, state-owned enterprise, agricuture, manufacturing, tourism, science-technology-innovation, logistics and infrastructure development, competitveness, and creative economy. 

Suriyon has been working with issues and stakeholders from national level to local community. His experiences are about driving strategy into actions with various partners and different levels of keystakeholders, project and investment analysis, strategic planning, industry and regional devlopment, project and program evaluation, knowledge management and training, strategic consultant, and for the last 4 years, leading the co-operation project between UNDP and NESDC named Thailand Policy Lab or TPLab. 

He is convinced that our public policy process needs to be reformed. It’s not responsive enough to people’s needs and pain points. 

The system favors conformity rather than accommodating creativity, certainty rather than effectiveness, and is not leveraging new generations’ entrepreneurship.

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New ideas and tools and other innovations in policy science of the last two decades are
needed if we are to be competitive in the next decade. I am looking forward to learning
from and sharing with others as to how we can make our public policy process at every
level more effective, more efficient, and more responsive to people’s needs.

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