Anand Panyarachun
| Anand Panyarachun | |
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| อานันท์ ปันยารชุน | |
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| 18th Prime Minister of Thailand | |
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In office 2 March 1991 – 23 March 1992 |
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| Monarch | Bhumibol Adulyadej |
| Preceded by | Chatichai Choonhavan |
| Succeeded by | Suchinda Kraprayoon |
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In office 10 June 1992 – 22 September 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Suchinda Kraprayoon |
| Succeeded by | Chuan Leekpai |
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| Born | 9 August 1932 |
| Nationality | Thai |
| Spouse(s) | M.R. Sodsri Panyarachun (née Chakrabandhu) |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Religion | Buddhism |
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Anand Panyarachun (born 9 August 1932) was Thailand's Prime Minister twice, between 1991–1992 and once again in 1992. He was effective in initiating economic and political reforms, one of which was the drafting of Thailand's "Peoples' Constitution", which was promulgated in 1997 and abrogated in 2006. Anand received a Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service in 1997.
Anand was the youngest child of twelve children of a wealthy family of Mon heritage on his father's side and Thai-Chinese (Hokkien) on his mother's. According to Anand himself, he inherited his Chinese heritage from his maternal grandmother, whose surname was Lau (Chinese: 刘). His Chinese ancestors first came to Thailand in the mid-18th century and eventually became one of the most prominent Hokkien families in Thailand. He is distantly related to Korn Chatikavanij through this branch of his family. Anand attended Dulwich College and later read law at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduate with honours in 1955.
Anand spent 23 years in the foreign service, serving at times as the Ambassador of Thailand to the United Nations, Canada, the United States, and West Germany. In January 1976 he was appointed Permanent Secretary of the foreign ministry, and played a leading role in ensuring the US military withdrawal from Thailand. Following that year's October coup Anand was branded a communist by the military during the subsequent political witch hunts, presumably for the Foreign Ministry's role in the normalisation of diplomatic relations between Thailand and the People's Republic of China. Although the civil service panel set up to investigate the allegations cleared him of any wrongdoing, Anand was put into relatively unimportant posts and in 1979 left the public sector for the private. He became the Vice-Chairman of the Saha-Union Group in 1979 and the Chairman of the Board of Directors in 1991. He has been a Director of Siam Commercial Bank since 1984.
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