Closing Plenary Session
Prof. Surichai Wun’Gaeo
Professor Emeritus of Sociology; Director, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Chulalongkorn University
Biography:
Professor Surichai Wun’Gaeo has been the Director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Chulalongkorn University since 2010 and a professor of Sociology at the university since 2009. After finishing his post-graduate studies at the University of Tokyo, he has successively held various academic posts, including the Directorship of Chulalongkorn University’s Social Research Institute and visiting professorships at universities including Hitotsubashi (Japan), University of Illinois-UC (USA), and Humbolt (Germany). His wide-ranging research interests include the sociology of development, environmentalism and sustainable development, social movements, endogenous social theory, and Japanese studies.
Professor Wun’Gaeo is also currently an advisor for the Working Group on Legal, Economic and Social Measures for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Thailand, a Commissioner on the National Health Commission (since 2014), the Chair of Thailand’s UNESCO-MOST (Management of Social Transformations Programme) Committee and the Vice-President for the Inter-Governmental Council of MOST for Asia and the Pacific Region. Following the increasing violence in Thailand’s southernmost provinces, he joined campaigns to change government policies under Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Consequently, in 2004, he became a member and joint secretary of the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC), chaired by Anand Panyarchun, former Prime Minister of Thailand. He has also been active in civil society movements and democratization issues for decades. He is the chairperson of the Labor Rights Promotion Network Foundation, the Ecological Alert and Recovery Thailand (EARTH) Foundation and FOCUS on the Global South, among others.
His publications include Confronting Cultural Globalization: A New Framework for Policy (in Thai, 2004); The Provinciality of Globalization: A Thai Perspective (2004); Rural Livelihoods and Human Insecurities in Globalizing Asian Economies (2007); Sociology of Tsunami: Coping with the Disaster (in Thai, 2007), Globalization and Democracy in Southeast Asia: Challenges, Responses and Alternative Futures (2016) and Health Governance and Institutional Learning Capacities in the New Context (2014). In 2014, he was selected as Most Distinguished Researcher in Sociology by the National Research Council of Thailand.
Prof. Surichai Wun’Gaeo
Professor Emeritus of Sociology; Director, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Chulalongkorn University
Biography:
Professor Surichai Wun’Gaeo has been the Director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Chulalongkorn University since 2010 and a professor of Sociology at the university since 2009. After finishing his post-graduate studies at the University of Tokyo, he has successively held various academic posts, including the Directorship of Chulalongkorn University’s Social Research Institute and visiting professorships at universities including Hitotsubashi (Japan), University of Illinois-UC (USA), and Humbolt (Germany). His wide-ranging research interests include the sociology of development, environmentalism and sustainable development, social movements, endogenous social theory, and Japanese studies.
Professor Wun’Gaeo is also currently an advisor for the Working Group on Legal, Economic and Social Measures for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Thailand, a Commissioner on the National Health Commission (since 2014), the Chair of Thailand’s UNESCO-MOST (Management of Social Transformations Programme) Committee and the Vice-President for the Inter-Governmental Council of MOST for Asia and the Pacific Region. Following the increasing violence in Thailand’s southernmost provinces, he joined campaigns to change government policies under Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Consequently, in 2004, he became a member and joint secretary of the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC), chaired by Anand Panyarchun, former Prime Minister of Thailand. He has also been active in civil society movements and democratization issues for decades. He is the chairperson of the Labor Rights Promotion Network Foundation, the Ecological Alert and Recovery Thailand (EARTH) Foundation and FOCUS on the Global South, among others.
His publications include Confronting Cultural Globalization: A New Framework for Policy (in Thai, 2004); The Provinciality of Globalization: A Thai Perspective (2004); Rural Livelihoods and Human Insecurities in Globalizing Asian Economies (2007); Sociology of Tsunami: Coping with the Disaster (in Thai, 2007), Globalization and Democracy in Southeast Asia: Challenges, Responses and Alternative Futures (2016) and Health Governance and Institutional Learning Capacities in the New Context (2014). In 2014, he was selected as Most Distinguished Researcher in Sociology by the National Research Council of Thailand.