메콩 연구소 소장으로 수리얀 비치틀레칸은 2020년 9월 1일부터 정부 간 인재 개발 전략 계획 및 실행, 역량 강화, 그리고 확대메콩지역 (Greater Mekong Subregion, GMS )에서의 지속 가능한 사회경제적 발전과 빈곤 완화를 촉진하기 위한 연구에 앞장서고 있다.

확대메콩지역 및 동남아시아에서, 농업 및 농촌 개발, 민관협력, 무역 등의 분야에 15년이상의 경험을 가지고 있으며, 메콩연구소 소장 취임 전, 독일국제협력공사 (GIZ) 태국사무소를 비롯하여, 유엔식량농업기구(FAO)의 아시아태평양지역 사무소, 아시아개발은행(ADB), 인도네시아의 동남아국가연합(ASEAN) 사무국 등에서 근무하였다.

As Mekong Institute's Executive Director beginning on September 1, 2020, Mr. Suriyan Vichitlekarn steers the strategic planning and implementation of the intergovernmental organization's human resource development, capacity strengthening, and research efforts to spur the acceleration of sustainable socioeconomic development and poverty alleviation in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS).
Mr. Suriyan holds over 15 years of experience in delivering innovative approaches and sustainable practices across his specialized areas of agriculture and rural development, public-private partnership, and trade facilitation in the GMS and Southeast Asia.

Before taking the helm at MI, Mr. Suriyan was the Deputy Cluster Coordinator for Food and Agriculture of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in Thailand and Spokesperson of the Agriculture Working Group under the GIZ Sector Network for Natural Resources and Rural Development in Asia and the Pacific.

In addition, Mr. Suriyan carries an extensive international development network, having assumed key positions at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat in Indonesia, and the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center.