When seasoned leaders and changemakers from across Thailand sit together, ideas quickly turn into action. At a recent alumni roundtable in Bangkok, top security practitioners offered powerful perspectives on today’s security challenges as well as insights on how the alumni network can generate tangible impact for Thailand and the Indo-Pacific. The Thai Alumni Association is one of the most active in the Indo-Pacific, and several of the alumni pledged to actively support Fellows’ projects and to serve as mentors in the Center’s new program, ensuring that the next generation of leaders benefit from their experience. They also offered to play a role in identifying and encouraging emerging leaders to participate in upcoming courses and workshops.

Participants included: GEN (Ret) Thanakorn Thongsuk (ASC 12-1); VADM (Ret) Gosol Triyakun (EC 98-1); LTG (Ret) Parinya Chaidilok (EC 07-2); Air Chief Marshal (Ret) Poomjai Leksuntarakorn (TSC 22-2); Senior COL Nat Kanchanahoti (CSRT 11-1, CCM 17-1, ASC 18-2), Director of Border Strategic and Cooperation Development Division, Border Affairs Department, RTARF HQ; Senior COL Thanita Wongjinda (CSC 24-1, CSC 25-1) Training Expert, Strategic Studies Center, National Defence Studies Institute; Ms. Rapeepan Nophirun, CSRT 15-1 – Director of Directorate 9 (Foreign Cooperation), Office of the Prime Minister of Thailand; Mr. Pumi Pumimathawat, CSC 23-3 – Staff to Directorate 9 (Foreign Cooperation), Office of the Prime Minister of Thailand; and Warisa Intaratana, ASC 18-2 – Plan and Policy Analyst, Maritime Security Division, National Security Council.

The roundtable was hosted by the Joint US Military Advisory Group Thailand (JUSMAGTHAI) and included Joint Branch Chief LTC John Ellerbe.