Giles Ji Ungpakorn

Giles Ji Ungpakorm
ใจ อึ๊งภากรณ์
Chairman of Socialist Workers Thailand
Assumed office
1998
PresidentJaruwat Keyunvan (As Representative of the Chairman and General Secretary)
DeputyNakita Kertnark (As Vice-Chairman)
Preceded byThong Chaemsri (As General Secretary of Communist Party of Thailand)
Personal details
Born25 October 1953 (age 71)
London, United Kingdom
Political partyLabour
Other political
affiliations
Socialist Workers Thailand
International Socialist Tendency
Alma materSOAS University of London
University of London
OccupationPolitician, Scholar, Political activist, Marxist, Lecturer, Professor
Nicknameใจ (Ji)

Giles Ji Ungpakorn (Thai: ใจ อึ๊งภากรณ์; RTGS: Chai Uengphakon, pronounced [tɕāj ʔɯ́ŋ.pʰāː.kɔ̄ːn]; born 25 October 1953) is a Thai-British academic, and Marxist political activist, who formerly worked as a teacher at Chulalongkorn University. He worked as an associate professor in the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, before he fled to the United Kingdom in 2009 after facing a lèse majesté charge in Thailand.