Thanawan received her B.A. in Economics (International Program), with First Class Honors, from Chulalongkorn University, and an M.S. in Applied Data Science from the University of Southern California under a full scholarship from the Bank of Thailand. She currently serves as a researcher at the Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research.
Previously, she worked in government consulting, with a focus on public policy development and evaluation, and also gained experience in private sector consulting in business and technology transformation. She also has experience in payment systems policy, where she was responsible for developing Payment Directional Papers and analyzing large-scale banking transaction data to inform policy analysis and support decision-making.
Research Interests
- Macroeconomics
- Monetary Economics
- Financial Institutions