Dr Anoulak Kittikhoun
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Dr Anoulak Kittikhoun

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Chief Executive Officer of the Mekong River Commission

Dr Anoulak Kittikhoun is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat since January 2022, appointed by the governments of the four MRC member countries, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. He will lead the MRC headquartered in Vientiane and its flood and drought management centre in Phnom Penh. He is the co-author of Small Countries, Big Diplomacy: Laos in the UN, ASEAN and MRC and River Basin Organizations in Water Diplomacy.

Dr Anoulak previously worked for the UN Secretariat in New York and taught at Brooklyn College of New York. He received a Bachelor’s degree in commerce and international relations, graduating as an International Valedictorian, from the Australian National University and a Master and Doctor of Philosophy in political science and development from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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