Kittiratt Na-Ranong

Who is Kittiratt Na-Ranong?

Kittiratt Na-Ranong is a Thai manager and politician. He has been a Deputy Prime Minister in Yingluck Shinawatra's cabinet since 9 August 2011. Additionally, he led the Ministry of Commerce until January 2012 and has served as Finance Minister since then.

Kittiratt Na-Ranong attended the Assumption College and the Triam Udom Suksa School in Bangkok. He studied economics at the Chulalongkorn University, graduating with a bachelor in 1980. He later studied for an MBA at the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration.

Kittiratt Na-Ranong has held the position of managing director of the Stock Exchange of Thailand for five years. Afterwards he became director of the Thai Securities and Exchange Commission. He was a vice director of the Sasin Graduate Institute and president of the private Shinawatra University, founded by the former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Moreover, he has managed the Thai national football team for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup.

In politics, Kittiratt became involved in the Thais United party in 2007. On 9 August 2011, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Commerce in the government of Yingluck Shinawatra. In a cabinet reshuffle on 18 January 2012, he lost the Commerce portfolio but was assigned to direct the Ministry of Finance.