Bundit LIMSCHOON

   

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the ACD Secretary General

Born in 1959, Mr Bundit Limschoon currently serves as the Secretary General of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD), overseeing the ACD Secretariat, based in Kuwait City, the State of Kuwait. ACD is an intergovernmental forum of 34 Member States across Asia. The forum, established in 2002, aims at promoting pan-Asian cooperation based dialogues and projects under 6 priority pillars in which Member States act as Prime Movers and Co-Prime Movers on issues, such as, connectivity, education and tourism. Mr Limschoon was appointed as the first Secretary General in 2012.

As a seasoned diplomat, Mr Limschoon most recently served as the Director of the Department of Information at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand. He also previously served as Minister, Minister Counsellor, and First Secretary at the Royal Thai Embassy in Helsinki, Mission of Thailand to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva, and Mission of Thailand to the United Nations (UN) in New York, respectively. In addition, he was elected as the President of the Berne Union for World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).

Holding both LLM in Economic Law from King's College, University of London, and MA in International Political Economy from University of Wisconsin Madison, he was also a grantee of the British Council's scholarship under the Colombo Plan as well as King Bhumibhol Foundation Scholarship Award. So far, he has given lectures to graduate students at Chulalongkorn University, Siam University, and Bangkok University.

Mr Limschoon is married and resides in Kuwait City.