Dr Prasarn Trairatvorakul, the Bank of Thailand governor since October 2010, has helped to keep the country’s economy stable and growing during the past five years of political volatility, including a military coup in 2014.
While acknowledging it would be unrealistic to claim the coup has had “zero effect” on the Thai economy, which grew only 0.7% last year, Mr Trairatvorakul predicts 4% economic growth in the country this year and few problems for its banks and corporate giants, which have learned their lessons from the Asian financial crisis of 1997.
