In Memoriam: Professor Ammar Siamwalla (1939–2025)

Authors

  • Attakrit Leckcivilize Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK
  • Ruttiya Bhula-or College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Abstract

Professor Ammar Siamwalla, who passed away in October 2025 at the age of 86, was one of Thailand’s most influential economists. As a founding member and former president of the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), he helped set the standard for evidence-based policy in Thailand and across Southeast Asia. His scholarship on rice policy, rural credit, and trade shaped debates for more than five decades; his public interventions—always clear, sometimes unsparing, and could touch on delicate political issues—made economics legible to policymakers and the public alike.

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2025-11-28

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Leckcivilize, A., & Bhula-or, R. (2025). In Memoriam: Professor Ammar Siamwalla (1939–2025). SOUTHEAST ASIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, 13(3), 1–6. retrieved from https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/saje/article/view/285356

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Vol. 13 No. 3 (2025): Southeast Asian Journal of Economics, Vol.13 No.3 (December 2025)

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