Phurichai Rungcharoenkitkul is Director of Monetary Policy Strategy Office at the Bank of Thailand. He leads a group of economists tasked with advising the Monetary Policy Committee on interest rate and exchange rate policies.
He is currently on leave from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), where he is a Principal Economist. Before joining the BIS in 2014, he spent nearly a decade at the BOT in various functions, notably in monetary policy and reserve management departments. He also spent a couple of years at the International Monetary Fund covering Asia.
His recent research covers monetary policy, financial stability, financial markets and open economy issues among others.
He obtained his DPhil and MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, and a BSc in Economics with Statistics (First Class Honours) from the University of Bristol.
Research Interests
- Monetary Economics
- Macroeconomics
- International Finance