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Surakiart Sathirathai, deputy prime minister of Thailand and Harvard Law School (HLS) alum, may be the next Secretary-General of the United Nations...
...Sathirathai has been unanimously endorsed by the ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), making his chances at leading the U.N. appear favorable. He is also reportedly backed by the People’s Republic of China, one of five permanent members of the Security Council...
...Sathirathai was awarded a Masters of Laws degree in 1982 and a Doctor of Juridical Science degree in 1985 from HLS, after attending Chulalongkorn University in Thailand and earned his economics degree at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University...
Rising to become an active member of the Thai government, Sathirathai served as Minister of Finance from 1995 to 1996. After taking on various roles ranging from academia to government, he became the country’s foreign minister in 2001, and in March became Thailand’s deputy prime minister...
...selected, Sathirathai will become the eighth Secretary General of the U.N. serving for at least five years...