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.
Sihasak PHUANGKETKEOW
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand
H.E. Mr. Sihasak Phuangketkeow is one of Thailand’s most distinguished career diplomats, with more than four decades of experience in foreign affairs. He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand on 19 September 2025. Prior to assuming ministerial office, Minister Sihasak has served in a wide range of leadership positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in Thailand’s overseas missions, covering bilateral, regional, and multilateral diplomacy.
Minister Sihasak previously served as Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs between 2023 and 2024. From 2016 to 2018, he was Ambassador of Thailand to France, concurrently serving as Thailand’s Permanent Delegate to UNESCO and as Thailand’s Representative to the OECD. Before this, he was appointed Ambassador of Thailand to Japan from 2015 to 2016.
From 2011 to 2015, Minister Sihasak served as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the most senior civil service position in the Ministry, responsible for steering Thailand’s foreign policy and representing the Ministry at major international and regional forums. Between 2007 and 2011, he was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Thailand to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, where he was elected President of the United Nations Human Rights Council from June 2010 to June 2011. For his contribution to the promotion of human rights, he was later awarded the National Human Rights Award of Thailand.
He also served as Deputy Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2007, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2002 to 2006, and as Consul-General in Hong Kong from 2000 to 2002. Earlier in his career, he was posted to the Thai Embassy in Tokyo (1993–1997) and to the Thai Embassy in Washington, D.C. (1983–1987).