{"id":4727,"date":"2020-06-05T09:12:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T02:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/?p=4727"},"modified":"2020-06-05T09:12:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T02:12:22","slug":"dr-kitipong-promwong-appointed-nxpo-president-for-the-2nd-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/en\/4727\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Kitipong Promwong appointed NXPO President for the 2nd term"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Kitipong Promwong\u00a0has been appointed by Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha, following the recommendation made by the Selection Committee,\u00a0to serve as NXPO President for the next 4 years, from 31 May 2020 onwards.\u00a0It\u00a0is the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0term that Dr.\u00a0Kitipong\u00a0has been entrusted with this important\u00a0assignment.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/image-8.jpeg\" alt=\"A person wearing a suit and tie\n\nDescription automatically generated\" class=\"wp-image-4728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/image-8.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/image-8-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>During his 1<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;term,&nbsp;Dr.&nbsp;Kitipong&nbsp;has overseen the organization\u2019s major transformation from the National Science Technology and Innovation Policy Office (STI Office) to the present the Office of National Higher Education Science Research and Innovation Policy Council (NXPO).&nbsp;In addition, he has&nbsp;been leading NXPO to design and employ strategy and policy to drive the development&nbsp;of higher education, science, research and innovation&nbsp;for national social and economic development.&nbsp;The following&nbsp;developments have taken place during his tenure:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Translation of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation Policy and Strategy to implementation plans including Science, Research and Innovation Plan, Higher Education Plan, Manpower Development Plan, Bio \u2013 Circular \u2013 Green Economy (BCG) Plan and Artificial Intelligence Plan.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\"><li>Employing systems research to investigate 10 target areas: agriculture, food, energy, grassroot economy, poverty alleviation, SMEs, circular economy, Industry 4.0, social sciences and humanities, and education and lifelong learning.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"3\"><li>Introducing management systems and mechanisms to support the implementation plans of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation Policy and Strategy, which include unlocking the procurement process to support local innovations, enabling the establishment of holding companies by universities and research agencies&nbsp;to facilitate technology exploitation, proposing Thai Bayh-Dole Act, establishing regulatory sandbox (starting with food &amp; agriculture and circular economy as pilot projects), setting up a higher education development fund, re-organizing research funding management system, reforming budgeting system to enable block grant and multi-year grant, developing a system integrating data on higher education, science, research and innovation from various sources, proposing supporting mechanisms for SMEs, and constructing a national monitoring and evaluation system for higher education, science, research and innovation.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"4\"><li>Proposing the establishment of program management units for efficient management and utilization of research fund and strengthening the national research and innovation system&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"5\"><li>Building&nbsp;NXPO\u2019s&nbsp;capacity in policy development and implementation.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kitipong Promwong\u00a0has been appointed by Prime Minis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cover-ENG.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/author\/adminsti\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cover-ENG.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4730,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions\/4730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}