Don Nakornthab

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Title

Senior director, reserve management department

Biography

Don Nakornthab is Senior Director of the Reserve Management Department at the Bank of Thailand, where he manages the Bank’s nearly USD300 billion of foreign exchange reserves. His primary responsibilities include overseeing the Bank’s fixed income and rates investment, strategic and tactical asset allocations, as well as external fund managers relations. Before assuming the current role, Mr. Nakornthab headed the Bank’s Financial stability Department, where he was responsible for the monitoring and analyses of different aspects of Thailand’s financial stability issues as well as the BOT’s macroprudential policy framework and recommendations. Prior to that he was Senior Director of the Bank’s Economic and Policy Department where he oversaw the monitoring and analyses of Thailand’s overall macroeconomic conditions as well as the official economic projection to support the Bank’s monetary policy decisions. Prior to joining the Bank of Thailand in 2002, Mr. Nakornthab worked as a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group where he was posted in the firm’s Bangkok and Hamburg offices. Between 1993 and 1995, Mr. Nakornthab also worked as a securities analyst at Thailand’s Phatra Securities, covering the petrochemical and the energy sectors. Mr. Nakornthab holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from Harvard University and a B.S. (with distinction) in Economics and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University. He is also an FRM holder, a CFA charterholder and a founding member of the CFA Society of Thailand.