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Thai economist, business theorist, and politician

PoliticiansBorn 1953 · age 73

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Somkid Jatusripitak is a Thai economist, business theorist, and politician. A mentee of Philip Kotler, he has (co-)authored books on competitiveness and taught marketing at Thai universities.

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Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak with President Rodrigo Duterte at the Royal Thai Air Force Air Terminal in Bangkok in 2017

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Somkid Jatusripitak is a Thai economist, business theorist, and politician. A mentee of Philip Kotler, he has (co-)authored books on competitiveness and taught marketing at Thai universities. He was a co-founder and leader of the Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT) and was mainly responsible for developing the party's progressive and reformist economic and social platform. After the party's electoral victory, he served as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, and Minister of Commerce in Thaksin Shinawatra's government. Following the coup d'état in 2006, the junta chose him as an economic envoy, advocating the royally-endorsed "self-sufficiency" economic agenda.