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Pichai Chuensuksawadi

Pichai Chuensuksawadi

Editor-in-Chief, Bangkok Post, Thailand

Pichai Chuensuksawadi is the Editor-in-Chief of The Post Publishing, which publishes the Bangkok Post, Post Today (Thai-language business daily), M2F (Free daily tabloid) and Student Weekly.  He is also Editor of the Bangkok Post, a position he re-assumed on 1 January 2014. His first term as Editor of the Bangkok Post was 1994-2002.

He was instrumental in the launch of the Post’s Thai-language business daily, Post Today, in 2002 and its Thai-language free tabloid newspaper, M2F (Monday to Friday) which has an audited circulation of more than 400,000. In 2009, he was Managing Director of Post News, which co-produced news on Thai television Channel 11. He also co-anchored the English-language morning news program Morning Focus on Channel 11 until February 2011.

He is a Board Member and Executive Committee Member of WAN-IFRA, Chairman of WAN-IFRA Asia-Pacific Regional Committee, Chairman of the Bangkok Post Foundation, Chairman Phud Hong Leper Foundation, Chairman of the Bangkok Post Provident Fund.  He was also a Board Member of the Press Council of Thailand from 1998-2002.

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