page_title: Panitan Wattanayagorn
section_title: Political experience
hierarchical_section_title: Panitan Wattanayagorn / Political experience
caption_attribution_description: นายกรัฐมนตรี แถลงข่าวต่อสื่อมวลชนหลังจากเข้าร่วมประชุมสุดยอด ASEAN SUMMIT ครั้งที่ 18 ณ Press Conference กรุงจาการ์ตา สาธารณรัฐอินโดนีเซีย วันอาทิตย์ที่ 8 พฤษภาคม พ.ศ.2554 (Photographer attached to the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand (H.E.Mr.Abhisit Vejjajiva)&#160;: Peerapat Wimolrungkarat / พีรพัฒน์ วิมลรังครัตน์) @is50mm
context_page_description: Panitan Wattanayagorn is a Thai political scientist and an associate professor in the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University.He has held advisory and executive positions in government of Thailand administrations over the past two decades. He is Chairman of the Prime Minister's Security Advisory Committee and an adviser to the National Security Council and a member of Thailand's National Cyber Security Committee.
context_section_description: At the onset of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, Panitan was seconded from Chulalongkorn University to the Prime Minister'sthe  Office to work as Head of a Special Working-Group on Defense for the prime minister and Minister of Defense, Mr. Chuan Leekpai. He returned to the university in 2001. In 2005, he was appointed foreign affairs adviser to the Leader of the Opposition in the Thai Parliament by Mr. Abhisit Vejjajiva.  Panitan was appointed a member of the Prime Minister's Eminent Persons Advisory Board during the premiership of General Surayud Chulanont during 2006–2007. From 2009 to 2011, he was on leave from the university and was appointed Deputy Secretary-General to the Prime Minister for Political Affairs while serving as acting government spokesmanin the administration of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.  Between 2014 and 2019, he was appointed by the Thai Cabinet as adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister for Security, General Prawit Wongsuwanand helped draft Thailand's national strategy in the government of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.
caption: Panitan with Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya
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