Kittipong Kittayarak has long been involved in judicial and criminal justice reform in Thailand. He has made substantial contributions to the improvement of the Thai judicial system through his roles in a number of national bodies. He has been known as one of the champions for the reform of the Thai criminal justice system towards due process and the rule of law, and for pioneering the implementation of the restorative justice and community justice programs in Thailand. In the area of peace and reconciliation, Kittipong was actively engaged in the National Reconciliation Committee, which focused its work on conflicts in the deep south of Thailand as well as the Truth for Reconciliation Commission of Thailand (TRCT). After completing his six-year term as the Permanent Secretary for Justice, in February 2015, he assumed a new role as the Executive Director of the Thailand Institute of Justice, a public organization working in the promotion, research and capacity-building activities in accordance with the justice-relates UN standards and norms. Currently, he is a special advisor to Thailand Institute of Justice. He holds J.S.D. from Stanford Law School, LL.M. from Harvard Law School, barrister-at-law from The Thai Bar Association, LL.M. from Cornell Law School, and LL.B. from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.

Ada Chirapaisarnkul is a social entrepreneurship/investment pioneer in Thailand, and the founder and managing director of Thai Young Philanthropist Network (TYPN). She is currently the CEO and co-founder of TaejaiDotcom, the first and largest crowd giving platform in Thailand, and serves as the Board Director and Advisor of several foundations in Asia.

Ada is interested in designing innovative financing mechanism and building platforms to engage active citizens and mobilize private capital (both financial and non-financial) in order to achieve sustainable and inclusive development. She was previously a University Lecturer and co-founding executive director of G-Lab, a social innovation lab at Thammasat University. She was also a project manager at the Office of the Prime Minister, leading a multi-sectoral team to develop the first masterplan for social enterprise promotion in Thailand.

Ada holds an MSc in environment and sustainable development from University College London and an MA in international finance and economic policy from Columbia University. She is a British Chevening scholar, Rockefeller Foundation Global Fellow on Social Innovation, Asia 21 Young Leader of the Asia Society, One Young World Ambassador and formerly a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum.

Gulnrat has extensive experiences in financial markets working for over 14 years in leadership roles with some of the biggest global banks in the world. She has a Master Degree in Business Administration – Finance from San Francisco State University as well as a CFA charter holder.  Gulnrat is passionate about financial inclusion and spends her time volunteering under financial literacy programs and women education such as At–Risk Women program, Junior Achievement and Weduglobal.org in her native Thailand and abroad. At LenddoEFL, Gulnrat plays a key role bringing LenddoEFL’s technology to new and underserved market segments in Indochina by introducing LenddoEFL’s technology to the traditional Indochina market.

Currently, Somprawin serves as Chief Economist and Executive Vice President, Head of Research Division at the Bank of Ayudhya Public Company Limited

Somprawin was formerly an Associate Dean and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University. During the past years, he had experience in interindustry economic modeling and policy research with various government agencies such as the NESDB, Bureau of the Budget and Ministry of Commerce. He was also a project leader and coordinator of the ‘Macroeconomy and Economic Policy Research for Thailand’ granted by the Thailand Research Fund (TRF).

Somprawin got his bachelor degree from Chulalongkorn University and MSc. in Economics and Finance from the University of Warwick. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland at College Park, where his area of specialty is macroeconomics.

Mr. Ng Gee Tiong is the Director (Planning and Organisational Development) of the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises (SCORE), overseeing the functions of Strategic and Corporate Planning, Corporate Communications, International Relations and Organisational Development.

He has 16 years of experience in the domain of offender’s rehabilitation and reintegration. His previous postings included Assistant Director (Criminal Law & Offenders) in the Ministry of Home Affairs and Superintendent of a prison in the Singapore Prison Service (SPS). He last served as Senior Assistant Director (Organisational Planning) in SPS.

* SCORE is a statutory board under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore. SCORE plays an important role in the Singapore correctional system by creating a safe and secure Singapore through the provision of rehabilitation and aftercare services to inmates and ex-offenders. SCORE seeks to enhance the employability of offenders and prepare them for their eventual reintegration into the national workforce by focusing on four main building blocks of Skills Training, Work Programmes, Employment Assistance and Community Engagement.

Ms. Sirisukha is Co-Founder of Little Forest project. She earned a B.A. from the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology from Thammasat University in Thailand. She initiated Little Forest project in collaboration with the Agro-Industry Faculty of Kasetsart University, Forest Industry Organization, and the Community College of Phrae Province, along with guidance from Mae Fah Luang Foundation. Their goal is to tackle the problem of deforestation in Thailand where approximately 43 percent of original forests have been lost within the past 50 years. Deforestation in Thailand is primarily driven by agricultural expansion as forests are cleared and converted into large-scale farms specializing in single cash crops such as rice, cassava, corn, and sugarcane. Ms. Sirisukha says that without an environmentally smarter next generation of consumers and decision-makers, it is likely that eco-friendly and sustainable practices will remain outside the mainstream, and resources will be irretrievably eroded. It is not only important to instill such mindsets in the rural population, but also to teach the urban population the values and fundamental understanding of natural resources issues.