Home business Two Thais make it to WEF Young Global Leaders list

The Nation March 14, 2013 1:00 am

The young leaders from Myanmar are Thura Ko, founder and managing director of YGA Capital, and Win Win Tint, managing director of City Mart Holdings Co.

Like his father, MR Disnadda Diskul, chief of Mae Fa Luang Foundation, Dispanadda has inherited

the urge to help poor farmers. His project's main objective is to help people in the

farming community and raise their in-

come through the shared ownership of a brand. The project now owns Doi Tung Coffee brand. Although the brand has

not yet spread to global markets, the project has considerable accomplishments domestically.

At an event hosted by Sasin Graduate School, he said success, for a social enterprise, lies in its ability to deliver what the locals need. "We're not giving what they're not ready to take. Many knowledge programmes turn to waste if they don't match the needs [of the people involved]," he said, citing the experience of projects under the Mae Fah Luang Foundation.

According to the Global Young Academy, which is the voice of young scientists around the world, Nitsara obtained a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Columbia University in 1999 and master's and doctoral degrees in chemical engineering from Stanford University in 2004. She leads a research team at Biotec in employing microarray technology to study black tiger shrimp, an economically important export for Thailand, and develop antibody arrays for diagnostics.

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