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Dr. Surin pitsuwan
Former ASEAN Secretary-General (2008 – 2012)
“Dr.Surin Pitsuwan, 67, is a native of Nakorn Sri
Thammarat, Southern Thailand. He received his primary and
secondary education in his home province.
He was awarded the American Field Service (AFS)
exchange scholarship and was a high school exchange student in
Minnesota, USA, in 1967-1968. He returned to Bangkok, Thailand
and attended Thammasat University for 2 years before winning
a scholarship from Claremont Men’s College (now Claremont
McKenna College) Claremont, California, to complete his B.A.
in Political Science (cum laude) in 1972. He then went on to
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., where
he received his M.A. and Ph.D. in 1974 and 1982 respectively,
in the field of Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies.
His entire Harvard career was supported by the Winston
S. Churchill Association, the Rockefeller Foundation and the
Ford Foundation Fellowships. He also spent a year and a half
studying Arabic and conducting his research at the American
University in Cairo, 1975-1977, while concurrently a fellow at
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