Don Nakornthab is Assistant Governor for Monetary Policy at the Bank of Thailand. His primary responsibilities include overseeing the Bank’s macroeconomic assessments and monetary policy recommendations.

Before assuming the current role, Mr. Nakornthab was Senior Director of the Bank’s Reserve Management Department. Under his leadership, Thailand’s international reserves rose from 249 billion USD to 306 billion USD. He came to the Reserve Management Department from the Financial Stability Department where he was responsible for the monitoring and analyses of different aspects of Thailand’s financial stability issues as well as the BOT’s macroprudential policy framework and recommendations. Prior to that he was Senior Director of the Economic and Policy Department where he oversaw the monitoring and analyses of Thailand’s overall macroeconomic conditions as well as the official economic projection to support the Bank’s monetary policy decisions. His first senior directorship was with the Financial Institutions Strategy Department where he directed the implementation of Thailand’s Financial Sector Master Plan Phase 3, financial stability assessment, and financial institutions foreign policies.

Prior to joining the Bank of Thailand in 2002, Mr. Nakornthab worked as a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group. Between 1993 and 1995, Mr. Nakornthab also worked as a securities analyst at Thailand’s Phatra Securities, covering the petrochemical and the energy sectors.

Mr. Nakornthab holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from Harvard University and a B.S. (with distinction) in Economics and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University.  He is also an FRM holder, a CFA charterholder and a founding member of the CFA Society of Thailand.