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the Higher Council for Islamic Research, Cairo, Egypt. He worked

as a columnist for the Nation and the Bangkok Post, the two
leading English daily newspapers in Bangkok, from 1975-1992.

Dr.Surin taught at the Faculty of Political Science at

Thammasat University from 1978-1983 and 1984-1986. He also
served as an assistant to the Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs

during the same period.

Dr.Surin joined the American Political Science
Association’s Congressional Fellowship Program in 1983-1984,

when he interned in the Congressional Office of the late US
Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-New York), who later

became the Vice Presidential Candidate for the Democrat Party
in 1984, and worked for the Senate Republican Conference in
the later half of 1984. He taught Southeast Asian Affairs at the

American University in Washington, D.C. during that same year.

He returned to Thailand in 1984 to assume a teach-

ing position at Thammasat and ran for a Parliamentary seat
from Nakorn Sri Thammarat, his home town two years later.

He had been returned to Parliament 8 times since 1986. As
an MP, he was appointed Secretary to the Speaker of the
House of Representatives (H.E. Chuan Leekpai), Secretary to

Deputy Minister of Interior, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs
during 1992-1995, and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1997

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