Bio

Dr. Atip is currently the Director General at Digital Council of Thailand where he assisted in passing several laws and public policies to accelerate the growth of digital industry and to attract additional foreign investment (e.g., exemption of capital gain taxes for investing in Thai startups.) He also assisted in setting up and managing The Digital Council of Thailand, established in accordance of The Digital Council of Thailand Act, B.E 2562 as the central organization to facilitate collaboration between government and private sectors to accelerate the growth of the digital industry. He has been an executive at Thailand's major telecommunication, broadcasting and digital convergence company. He held leadership positions in public organizations, and contributes to Thailand's leading newspapers. He is an adjunct faculty at Thailand's leading universities and founded a successful Internet startup. He is a distinguished public speaker and an experienced professional in the fields of telecommunication, broadcasting and digital convergence. He also was appointed to a political office and received royal decorations. Dr. Atip received BA and BS from University of Chicago and MS and PhD from Carnegie Mellon University on full scholarship. His doctoral thesis on analytics of social networks and online communities was published in a premium academic journal and won awards at top academic conferences. He has also been offered acceptance to Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, University of Michigan, and etc, and scored perfect 800 on GRE Quantitative.