Kriengsak Chareonwongsak

Kriengsak Chareonwongsak is a Thai scholar and politician. He established the first future studies research institute in Southeast Asia, and was a Member of Thailand's House of Representatives, was on the executive Board for the Democrat Party, and has published on both scholarly and popular topics.

Chareonwongsak was born Bangkok. After finishing high school at the New Berlin High School in Wisconsin on a one-year American Field Service (AFS) scholarship, he completed a Bachelor of Economics and PhD in Economics, both on scholarship at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

He completed a Master of Public Administration degree at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; and holds a master's degree, from Cambridge Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, UK and postdoctoral studies at University of Oxford.

The theses of most of Chareonwongsak's writings centre on promoting national development. To this end, he established Thailand’s first institution for futures studies in 1994. Institute of Future Studies for Development (IFD), a non-profit academic research organization, conducts futures studies especially in the fields of economic and human resource development which focuses on interdisciplinary future studies contributing to economic, human resource, and national development. IFD takes a multi-disciplinary approach to its research across a broad spectrum of academic fields and emphasizes sustainable solutions to offset future problems in Thai society. IFD, under Chareonwongsak's leadership, has worked for change in Thailand’s banking, finance, governance, and education infrastructures. The IFD focuses on research activities, and also organizes and hosts seminars, talk-shows, academic conferences, and forums among Thai intellectuals and policy-makers, publishing findings in newspapers, magazines, and academic journals.

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