Kittiratt Na-Ranong

Kittiratt Na-Ranong กิตติรัตน์ ณ ระนอง
Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
In office 9 August 2011 – 7 May 2014
Prime Minister	Yingluck Shinawatra
Preceded by	Trairong Suwankiri
Succeeded by	Pridiyathorn Devakula
Finance Minister of Thailand
In office 18 January 2012 – 7 May 2014
Prime Minister	Yingluck Shinawatra
Preceded by	Thirachai Phuvanatnaranubala
Succeeded by	Sommai Pasi
Minister of Commerce
In office 9 August 2011 – 18 January 2012
Prime Minister	Yingluck Shinawatra
Personal details
Born	(1958-08-03) August 3, 1958
Nationality	Thai
Alma mater	Chulalongkorn University
Profession	Economist Politician
Religion	Buddhism

Kittiratt Na-Ranong (Thai: กิตติรัตน์ ณ ระนอง; rtgs: Kittirat Na Ranong; born 3 August 1958) is a Thai manager and politician. He was a Deputy Prime Minister^[1] in Yingluck Shinawatra's cabinet. Additionally, he led the Ministry of Commerce^[2] until January 2012 and then served as Finance Minister until May 2014.

Kittiratt attended the Assumption College and the Triam Udom Suksa School in Bangkok. He studied economics at the Chulalongkorn University, graduating with a bachelor in 1980. He later studied for an MBA at the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration.^[3]

Kittiratt has held the position of managing director of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) for five years.^[3] Afterwards he became director of the Thai Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He was a vice director of the Sasin Graduate Institute and president of the private Shinawatra University, founded by the former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Moreover, he has managed the Thai national football team for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup.^[3]

In politics, Kittiratt became involved with the Thais United party in 2007.

Family

Kittiratt Na-Ranong comes from a prominent Thai-Chinese family based in southern Thailand. He is a great-great grandson of Khaw Soo Cheang, a Hokkien Chinese immigrant from Zhangzhou in Fujian Province who migrated to Penang in 1810 and then to Thailand in 1822. Soo Cheang established a tin mining and shipping business in Penang and Southern Thailand. He was appointed governor of Ranong province in 1854 and given the princely title of Phraya Na Ranong by the royal family.^[4] Soo Cheang's second son, Khaw Sim Kong was the governor of Ranong Province and the great-grandfather of Kittiratt. Soo Cheang's sixth son, Ratsadanupradit Mahitsaraphakdi served as the governor of Trang Province. The family was granted the "Na Ranong" surname in around 1916 by Rama VI, among the first families to receive one.^[5] Today, several hundred members of the family use this surname.^[6] According to a distant relative, Khaw Teik Gim who serves as the family's historian, Kittiratt's Chinese name is Khaw Cheng Thong.^[7]

Family tree

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Royal decorations

• Knight Grand Cordon (Special Class) of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant (2012)^[9]
• Knight Grand Cordon (Special Class) of The Most Noble Order of the Crown of Thailand (2011)^[10]

Bibliography

• Lim, Kwee Phaik, Life at Chakrabongse House: Khaw Sim Bee: Phraya Rasadanupradit Mahisornpakdi, 2011, ISBN 0957784872

References

1. ↑ Ten Kate, Daniel; Suwannakij, Supunnabul (12 Sep 2011), Thailand Shouldn’t Use Rates for Climbing Commodity Costs, Kittiratt Says, Bloomberg, retrieved 27 Sep 2011 
2. ↑ "Kittiratt pushes government economic policy", Bangkok Post, 21 Sep 2011, retrieved 28 Sep 2011 
3. 1 2 3 Biography of Kittiratt Na-Ranong, website of the Sasin Graduate Institute (www.sasin.edu). Retrieved on 27 Sep 2011.
4. ↑ http://www.phuketgazette.net/articles/articles/print_detail/21254
5. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19920211&id=KLBUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NJADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6876,68621&hl=en
6. ↑ Voravudhi Chirasombutti, Some Observations on Migrants’ Acquisition of Thai Family Names, Ritsumei University Japan,
7. ↑ Wong Chun Wai, Powerful ties that bind two nations, 28 September 2013, The Star (Malaysia)
8. ↑ http://books.google.ca/books?id=xrrsESoNpfAC
9. ↑ 3 December 2012, Royal Thai Government Gazette
10. ↑ 2 December 2011, Royal Thai Government Gazette