Surin pitsuwan biography of rory
Surin Pitsuwan, who was Chairman of the ARF from July to July.
HE Dr Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General of.!
Dr Surin Pitsuwan
Doctor of Laws
14 July 2008 - Orator: Professor Amitav Acharya
Mr Vice-Chancellor,
Dr Surin Pitsuwan is one of the most well-known and highly respected voices of emerging Asia.
Born in the southern Thai province of Nakhon Si Thammarat, whose very name (Nagara Sri Dharmaraja in Sanskrit) harks back to a golden era of maritime voyages that linked Southeast Asia with the outside world, including Japan, China, India, and the Arab world, young Surin Pitsuwan was educated at Thammasat University, Claremont Men’s College and Harvard University, where he earned a master and a PhD.
His Harvard education was funded by the Winston S. Churchill Association and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships. Churchill, as some of the audience may know, was the longtime chancellor of the University of Bristol, both before, during and after he was Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Surin Pitsuwan was a Political Science lecturer at Thammasat University from 1978 before joining poli
