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Sudharma Yoonaidharma (Professor) Commissioner, Energy Regulatory Commission, Thailand; Chairman, Thailand Chapter

Professor Sudharma Yoonaidharma serves as Commissioner for Energy Regulatory Commission, Thailand.

He currently also holds positions as Commissioner, Higher Education Commission; Legal Expert on Committee on Digital Economy Infrastructure and is a Member of Directors of the Chulabhorn Royal Institute. He was also a Commissioner of the National Telecommunication Commission (2004-2010) – a predecessor of the current National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC).

Professor Yoonaidharma was the former Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce. Prior to the NTC appointment, he taught business and economic law at Chulalongkorn University. There, he held senior posts, including Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Director General of the Intellectual Property Institute and Director General of the Science and Technology Law Center. Through the years, Professor Yoonaidharma’s other activities included the drafting of telecommunications and e‐commerce laws, and a proposal to liberalise and privatise government‐owned operators. He was appointed as a World Bank transport and telecommunications expert to work with the Ministry of Finance to facilitate corporatisation of public utility service agencies, and also prepared a position paper for the Thai Government to negotiate telecommunication services under the Uruguay Round leading to the Thai Schedule of Commitment of 1994 and 1996.

Professor Yoonaidharma has been the lead telecommunication negotiation delegate for the Japan‐Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement, Thailand‐US Free Trade Agreement (suspended), Thailand‐India Economic Cooperation Agreement, ASEAN‐China Closer Economic Cooperation Agreement and Thailand‐Australia Free Trade Agreement. He was nominated as the Chairman of the ASEAN Telecommunication Regulators Council (ATRC) in 2009, Co‐Chair of ASEAN‐Japan Telecommunication Dialogue and Co‐Chair of ASEAN‐China Telecommunication Dialogue.

Professor Yoonaidharma, a notable speaker at many international meetings and conferences, also teaches Telecommunications Law for Masters degrees at the Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University.

The Thailand Chapter of the IIC aims to stimulate discussions among policy makers, industry professionals, academia, and stakeholders to contribute to the ever-changing communications landscape.

The Chapter’s past events have brought together experts from across the globe to shape discussions on media policy, digital ecosystem, and digital transformation. The events have been enriched by insight views of leading people from the industry and key public agencies such as the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), and the Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA).

The Chapter’s latest virtual event on data privacy at times of the COVID-19 explored various tools, including contact tracing applications, to ensure enough safeguard to individual’s privacy while it is necessary to use people’s data to meet objectives of curbing the pandemic.

This year, the Chapter plans to host another virtual event on a theme that relates to a misinformation in the precarious time (e.g. fake news, disinformation), and a response that is needed to foster media literacy to ensure trust in the society.

Latest from Thailand

Summary Report: IIC Thailand Chapter Webinar: Data Privacy in the Time of COVID-19 22.07.2020

Digital Bytes: News from Thailand 28.04.2020

Letting the data flow 25.02.2020

Past Events from Thailand

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24th June 2021 9:00 am

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Hybrid Event / Thailand International Symposium on 5G and Driving the Benefits of Big Data

Online Meeting IIC Thailand Chapter Webinar: Data Privacy in the Time of COVID-19

18th - 19th February 2020

Bangkok, Thailand TMF Asia 2020 – Postponed

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