Puey Ungpakorn
Award Winner
1916 – 1999
Who was Puey Ungpakorn?
Puey Ungpakorn, MBE was an extremely successful bureaucrat who played a central role in the shaping of Thailand's economic development and in the strengthening of its system of higher education. Puey was the Governor of the Bank of Thailand for 12 years, a Dean of the Faculty of Economics, and also a rector of Thammasat University in Bangkok. Puey was a member of the Free Thai Movement during World War II. He was a Magsaysay Award winner in the field of government service in 1965.
Puey is the author of The Quality of Life of a South-East Asian: A Chronicle of Hope from Womb to Tomb or later known as From Womb to Tomb, which is still one of the most influential writings about social security in Thailand.
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- Born
- Mar 9, 1916
Bangkok - Also known as
- นายเข้ม เย็นยิ่ง
- Parents
- Spouses
- Margaret Smith
(1946 - )
- Margaret Smith
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Thai Chinese
- Nationality
- Thailand
- Profession
- Education
- London School of Economics
- Thammasat University
( - 1937)
- Died
- Jul 28, 1999
London
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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