Kasit Piromya was a career diplomat, having served as Thai Ambassador to the Soviet Union-Russia Federation, Indonesia, Germany, Japan and the United States. After retirement from civil service, he entered politics became a member of Democrat Party and its Foreign Minister from December 2008 – August 2011 in the Abhisit Vejjajiva’s government. He’s a member of House Representative as well as a member the National Reform Steering Assembly. He left politic a few years ago having voted against the draft constitution at the national referendum. He resigned from the Democrat Party disagreeing with its decision to join a coalition government led by a former general who stage the coup d’etat in 2014.
Kasit Piromya has become active in the promotion and protection of democracy and human rights. He’s a board member of ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights - APHR. He’s also a board of the Border Consortium which comprises about a dozen international NGOs looking after about 90,000 Myanmar refugees in 9 camps along the Thai-Myanmar border. He’s also a member of Caux Round Table - CRT which advocates good governance and moral capitalism. He is a guest lecturer, a senior fellow at ISIS Chulalongkorn University as well as a senior fellow at The German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance – CPG, Faculty of Law, Thammasat University.
He is a regular columnist for the Naewna Thai daily newspaper writing on domestic, regional and international politics. He’s also speaks on YouTube and has a weekly talk program with a cable television station.