Dr Chuwit Mitrchob
Deputy Director General, Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration (DASTA)
Dr. Chuwit holds a Doctoral Degree of Business Administration (DBA) in Human Resource Development from Southern Cross University, New South Wales, Australia as a Royal Thai Government Scholarship student. He was posted as Counselor (Agriculture) in the diplomatic corp of the Mission of Thailand to the European Union, Royal Thai Embassy, Brussels, Belgium. He then moved to work at the Office of National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) serving in executive positions, including the last position of Executive Director of Competitiveness Development Office. He has been on missions to over 40 countries.
At the NESDB, he also had significant performances in the roles of secretariat of a number of high-ranking national committees chaired by the Prime Minister such as National Committee on Competitiveness Development, National Committee on Creative Economy Policy, National Committee of Joint Public and Private Economic Development, National Committee on Economic Cooperation Development with Neighboring Countries. He was appointed by the NESDB as the head of working group on drafting Thailand Strategies towards ASEAN Community.
In the area of tourism, he was a member of National Tourism Policy Committee. He is now Deputy Director-General of the Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration (DASTA) under Ministry of Tourism and Sports. He has initiated windows of cooperation between DASTA and international tourism bodies. He was a pioneer who brought the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) into the circle of sustainable tourism development in Thailand. He was the key person who supported the establishment of Asian Ecotourism Network (AEN) in Thailand. He has presented successful works of DASTA, including projects and activities in relation to low carbon tourism, creative tourism, gastronomy tourism and community-based tourism at national and international conferences. His expertise also includes driving potential cities to become part of UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN), in particular, Sukhothai (Creative City of Crafts and Folk Art) and Petchaburi (Creative City of Gastronomy).
Recently, he has received a Degree on National Defence Program (63rd batch) from King Rama 10. His thesis “Applying the Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria for Uplifting Tourism of Thailand” was given a distinction. He was also selected by the National Defence College as one of twelve students to present to the Prime Minister on the topic “Transforming Thailand’s Tourism to Sustainability”.
Serving in academic domain, he has been a lecturer and thesis examiner for doctoral and master degree programs in private and public universities such as Chulalongkorn University, Thammasat University, NIDA, Burapha University and the National Defense College.
