Chayanis Krittasudthacheewa

Dr. Chayanis Krittasudthacheewa is Director of Partnership and Engagement for Impact at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Asia and an Affiliated Researcher at the Sustainable Environment Research Institute (SERI), Chulalongkorn University, based in Bangkok, Thailand.

With more than 25 years of experience in the Mekong Region, she has extensive experience in leading multi-country and multidisciplinary programmes, building regional partnerships and networks, and connecting research and knowledge with policy and practice. Her expertise spans multi-stakeholder and policy engagement, network development, programme management and cross-sectoral coordination, monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), hydrology and water resources engineering, integrated water resources management, climate change adaptation, and sustainable development.

Dr. Krittasudthacheewa previously served for several years as Deputy Director of SEI Asia, contributing to the Centre’s strategic development, programme leadership and regional partnerships. She currently serves as Director of the Sustainable Mekong Research Network (SUMERNET), a regional research and knowledge network established in 2005 that brings together approximately 900 members from more than 400 organisations to advance credible research and evidence-informed policy for sustainable development in the Mekong Region. She is also Director of the Mekong Thought Leadership and Think Tanks Network (MTT) Programme and Team Leader of an initiative to build a water-sector youth leadership network under the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) mechanism.

In Myanmar, she had been leading the Ayeyarwady Futures and Chindwin Futures programs (2013-2021) that support evidence-based multi-stakeholder engagement in water resources management and development in the Chindwin River Basin and Ayeyarwady River Basin.

Prior to joining SEI, she worked with the Mekong River Commission (MRC), where she managed hydro-meteorological data, conducted hydrological studies, and strengthened the capacities of national line agencies in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Vietnam, including collaboration with the MRC Dialogue Partners, China and Myanmar. She began her career as a water resources engineer with consulting firms in Thailand.

Formerly, she served on the Steering Committee of the Mekong Program on Water, Environment and Resilience (M-POWER) and as a member of the Regional Advisory Body of the Water and Energy for Food (WE4F) South and Southeast Asia Regional Innovation Hub.

Dr. Krittasudthacheewa holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Kasetsart University with First Class Honours, a Master of Engineering from the Asian Institute of Technology, where she received two distinguished prizes, and a Ph.D. in Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, where she received distinguished awards from the JICA President and the University President.