CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Anuson Chinvanno

         Dr. Anuson Chinvanno is a Sinologist by training and a diplomat by career. He studied Modern Chinese at Leeds University from 1979 to 1983 and continued his post-graduate study in International Relations at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, receiving a D. Phil. in August 1988. His thesis was published by Macmillan (now Palgrave) in 1992 under the title “Thailand’s Policies towards China, 1949-1954”.

         Dr. Anuson started working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in September 1988, attaining his first senior post of Consul-General to Shanghai in 2004. In 2006, he was appointed Director-General of the Department of East Asian Affairs. In 2009 he was moved to the Department of International Organizations. He was appointed Thailand’s Ambassador to Vietnam in late 2010 and served in Hanoi from 2011-2013.

         Dr. Anuson decided to retire early and left the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 1 January 2014. In August 2014, he was appointed Director of the newly established Chinese-Thai Institute at Rangsit University, but the new Government of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha decided in October 2014 to appoint him Deputy Secretary-General to the Prime Minister. Dr. Anuson’s tenure at the PM’s Office lasted until July 2019. He returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to head the revitalized International Studies Center (ISC) from 1 August 2019.

         Apart from his academic training and interest in the study of modern China, Dr. Anuson also has extensive experience in multilateral diplomacy. He served at Thailand’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York as a junior diplomat between 1992-1995 and at the Department of International Organizations twice, in 1996-2000 as Counsellor and in 2009-2010 as Director-General. One area of multilateral negotiations in which he was extensively involved is climate change, having attended many COP conferences as Special Advisor to the Thai delegation. Dr. Anuson has been an advisory member of the National Committee on Climate Change Policy since 2015.

         In addition to his book, his paper “Brief Encounter: Sino-Thai Rapprochement After Bandung, 1955-1957” was published by the ISC in 1992 under its Study Paper series. Dr. Anuson is also the editor of the books “Thai Diplomacy: in conversation with Tej Bunnag”, and “Global Thailand: in conversation with Narongchai Akrasanee”, published by ISC in 2021 and 2024 respectively. He has, over the years, contributed articles to Saranrom Journal, Thammasat's Journal of East Asian Studies, The Bangkok Post, and Rangsit Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, and ISC’s e-publication “Points of View”.