Peeranun Panyavaranant
August 30, 2018Ms. Panyavaranant is the Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility and Community Partnerships, at the Kenan Institute Asia. She works in sustainable development areas including rural economic development, education, and inclusive social development. She is currently a doctoral student in the Rural and Regional Development Planning Faculty at Asian Institute of Technology. Her professional responsibilities include overseeing sustainability development programs funded by leading corporations, designing and conducting capacity building for CSOs on productivity and good governance, and advocating sustainability and SDG principles. She was assigned as Chief of Party (COP) for USAID-funded Healing, Opportunity, Peace and Engagement (HOPE), a three-year project which focuses on bringing together youth in Thailand’s embattled Deep South. As COP, she works with stakeholders at local and national levels to build a model for conflict mitigation, peace, and reconciliation in six at-risk communities in Pattani province. Ms. Panyavaranant is a skilled Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) trainer and facilitator and a CSR columnist in the Thai business newspaper, Prachachart Thurakij.