Members
The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) has over one hundred members from eighteen countries across Asia and the Pacific, consisting of former political, diplomatic and military leaders, senior government officials, and scholars and opinion leaders. APLN aims to inform and energize public opinion, especially high-level policymakers, to take seriously the very real threats posed by nuclear weapons, and to do everything possible to achieve a world in which they are contained, diminished and eventually eliminated.
Kasit PIROMYA
Former Thai Foreign Minister
Kasit Piromya has served as an Ambassador to a number of countries such as Russia, Malaysia, Germany, Japan, and the U.S. He has also served as a member of Parliament in Thailand.
Kasit Piromya was a career diplomat, having served as Thai Ambassador to the Soviet Union-Russia Federation, Indonesia, Germany, Japan and the United States. After retirement from civil service, he entered politics became a member of Democrat Party and its Foreign Minister from December 2008 – August 2011 in the Abhisit Vejjajiva’s government. He’s a member of House Representative as well as a member the National Reform Steering Assembly. He left politic a few years ago having voted against the draft constitution at the national referendum. He resigned from the Democrat Party disagreeing with its decision to join a coalition government led by a former general who stage the coup d’etat in 2014.
Kasit Piromya has become active in the promotion and protection of democracy and human rights. He’s a board member of ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights - APHR. He’s also a board of the Border Consortium which comprises about a dozen international NGOs looking after about 90,000 Myanmar refugees in 9 camps along the Thai-Myanmar border. He’s also a member of Caux Round Table - CRT which advocates good governance and moral capitalism. He is a guest lecturer, a senior fellow at ISIS Chulalongkorn University as well as a senior fellow at The German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance – CPG, Faculty of Law, Thammasat University.
He is a regular columnist for the Naewna Thai daily newspaper writing on domestic, regional and international politics. He’s also speaks on YouTube and has a weekly talk program with a cable television station.