Core team
The Founder

- “The New Investor’s Handbook for Indonesia” (2004),
- “Public Opinion Polling in a Globalised World” (2007),
- “From Customer Retention to a Holistic Stakeholder Management System” (2008).
- “A new way of measuring behavioural compliance for prevention programme interventions using KAP Score” (2019).
Thailand Office

Dewi Ratnawulan
Senior Gender and Human Rights Adviser
Dewi has extensive experience with gender and human rights issues, having worked with various NGOs and other human rights organizations since in 1992. Special areas of interest have included community development, human rights, oral history, and gender issues including women and children development. Projects she has been involved with have ranged from grass root level such as setting up a women’s cooperative for handicrafts in rural villages in Java to having Co-founded a women’s resource centre Mitra Wacana in Yogyakarta.
More recently she has worked regionally to build capacities of NGOs and human rights defenders in the East Asia regions with special focus on supporting and strengthening the effectiveness of human rights regional mechanisms. Her commitment is to implement the goal of gender equality by ensuring the equal participation and full involvement of women and men in all aspects of work.
Dewi holds a Master of Human Rights and Democratization from Sydney University, having been accepted into their scholarship program in 2011. She also holds a BA Honours in History and Politics from Wollongong University, Australia, and a Diploma Certificate on Administration Development from the Faculty of Economics at Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia. Dewi is based in Bangkok and has been an international consultant with Rapid Asia since 2010.

Toru Hisada
Project Manager
Toru has extensive experience in project management roles that include project implementation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation in the human rights and development sectors. Toru has been in Thailand since 2009 and has worked with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as well as inter-governmental organization (IGO). His areas of interest include human security issues in Asia Pacific, including ethnic conflict and indigenous development and self-determination, as well as environmental security and sustainable development. Toru has also published a monograph as well as contributed several articles for various publications.
Toru has been involved with a project that supports destitute children and women from Burma and the local community in Thailand’s Kanchanaburi province, where he developed and implemented social work and income generation projects. Later on, Toru worked regionally and supported capacity building for Asian NGOs in effective engagement with respective national human rights institutions (NHRIs) and their regional and international bodies. More recently, Toru coordinated the implementation of capacity building and human resource development projects focusing on regional cooperation and integration in the greater-Mekong subregion (GMS), with a special focus on economic cooperation and competitiveness. Toru managed regional projects funded by various development partners in cooperation and collaboration with public and private stakeholders at the provincial, national, regional, and international levels in GMS countries and beyond.
Toru holds a Master of Arts (M.A.) in International Relations and Security Studies from the University of Waikato (first class honors). Toru has been with Rapid Asia since November 2020 as Senior Project Executive.

Rawiwan Boonchai
Senior Project Executive
Rawiwan has over 8 years of working experience with both intergovernmental agencies and international organizations as well as a strong background in an academic field. Areas of interest have included environmental issues, climate change adaptation as well as sustainable agriculture development.
Most recently, she was involved in a collaboration project between the Thai and Japanese governments to strengthen the capacity of local Arabica coffee farmers and agricultural cooperatives in the Northern part of Thailand by developing value-added strategies and quality control protocols for coffee quality improvement. She also engaged with private sector partnerships to improve sustainable practice in luxury hotels, including awareness raising programs among hotel staff and guests, and supports local coastal communities such as mangrove restoration and sustainable seafood sourcing. She gained experience during her time as a field coordinator for International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), to implement a project on conserving transboundary dolphin population along with Thai and Cambodian water. She experienced working regionally with NGOs in Great Mekong Sub-region (GMS) countries on water resource management and climate change adaption.
She participated as one of the selected young fellowships from Thailand to join the HANDs project to learn about Disaster Risk Reduction and Environment Education, funded by Japan Foundation in 2018.
Rawiwan graduated Master degree in Environmental Engineering from Changwon National University in Changwon, South Korea in 2014. During her years in South Korea, she published and presented several research papers related to microalgae membrane bioreactors for wastewater treatment. Besides studying, she volunteered in many cross-cultural awareness programs. She gained her Bachelor of Science, majoring in Genetics from Kasetsart University in 2008.
Rawiwan has been with Rapid Asia since July 2022 as Senior Project Executive.

Rinyuda Promphenrangsi
Senior Project Executive
Rinyuda has several years of experience in Business and Technology consulting, in which she developed expertise in project management. In addition, she has a strong interest in local economic development and equal access to education. Rinyuda has a multicultural background and spent time studying/working in the U.S., the UK, India, Russia, and Japan.
In 2016, Rinyuda was involved with a social enterprise in Thailand to develop a business plan to launch their organic rice products. As a result, she developed a strong interest in local economic development. After completing her B.A. in Economics and Russian Language from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR, USA, she started her career in business and technology consulting, which allowed her to develop transferable skills in delivering successful projects in social development. From 2019 to 2021, she volunteered her time in two educational NGOs in Bangkok, Thailand, committed to improving educational access and equality in Thailand.
During her studies, she wrote her Master’s dissertation on the Participatory development approach and its Local Economic Development (LED) impact on Sakon Nakhon province by using the case study of the E-San Gastronomy initiative. In addition, Rinyuda is committed to creating positive changes through her work with Rapid Asia.
Rinyuda holds an MSC in Local Economic Development (Merit) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK, and a B.A. in Economics with a Russian Language minor from Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR, USA.

Boonsita Ravisopitying
Senior Project Executive
Boonsita holds a Bachelor of Political Science in Politics and International Relations from Thammasat University minoring in International Political Economy. She later participated in YSEALI Academic Fellowship on Civic Engagement at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Before joining Rapid Asia, Boonsita worked as an intern at the Office of Commercial Affairs under the Royal Thai Embassy in Washington, D.C.
During her undergraduate years, she served as an ambassador to Thammasat University Office of International Affairs, and assisted in organizing several volunteering activities for exchange students. She began to develop her passion for social development at the Harvard World Model United Nations Conference 2017 in Montreal, Canada where she was selected to represent the University. She also took part in AIESEC Global Volunteer in the project called inteGREAT – Alternativa in Pavia, Italy to support African political refugees in everyday activities for community integration. Later, she was selected to perform as a Team Leader for International Relations Department in AIESEC, a youth-led organization, responsible for building, maintaining, and following up partnerships between Local Committees and consulting outgoing volunteers.
She also participated in various social development workshops and projects such as Young Women Lead Program hosted by IRI Institute, Youth Leader Initiative Workshop on Homelessness – Challenges and Avenues for Redress hosted by Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG), Conflict Resolution Workshop hosted by Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI), and took part in Public Relations for Write for Rights (W4Rs) Campaign for Amnesty International to organized exhibition at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC) to support human rights and help organized pride parade in Bangkok.
As a part of Rapid Asia, Boonsita is responsible for developing project tools, doing desk reviews, designing and scripting surveys, conducting medium and high-level key informant interviews. She also coordinate with the client as well as monitoring sub-contractors for primary data collection, carrying out analysis and report preparation.

Rattanaluk Tungjiewlee
Project Executive
Rattanaluk holds a Bachelor Degree in Political Science in Politics and International Relations, Thammasat University, majoring in International Relations and minoring in Public Administration. During her studies, she has also studied at Leiden University in The Netherlands as an exchange student. Before joining Rapid Asia, Rattanaluk has worked as an intern at the Department of Foreign Trade, Thailand’s Ministry of Commerce.
Rattanaluk began building her passion for social development work since her high school by becoming a member of Interact Club and has been doing several community service and social development work. Since then and throughout her undergraduate years, she has been continuously doing social development and community service work such as raising funds, setting up different activities for old age home and children in need in rural areas, volunteering at TZU CHI Foundation for refugees in Bangkok to help them manage patients, and participated in a charity run event in Leiden to raise funds for refugee students. Furthermore, during her exchange semester, she was also selected as the exchange student representative to discuss and deal with issues faced by international students.
As a part of Rapid Asia, Rattanaluk is responsible for doing desk reseach, developing project tools, designing and scripting surveys, conducting interviews, as well as coordinating with sub-contractors for primary data collection and carrying out analysis. Alongside project work, she also manage social media websites and does monthly accounting.

Christoffer Larsson
International Consultant
Christoffer has worked as a consultant in numerous development projects since 2008. His main focus has been in finding financially sustainable solutions to development projects, and transforming the traditional charity model into one of social enterprise and job creation.
Christoffer has done this through conducting workshops and trainings for local development organizations in the SE Asian region on topics such as financial management, market value chains, and rural business development as part of the Wetlands Alliance Programme (WAP). WAP is a programme, sponsored by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), in partnership with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT).
Christoffer holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration resulting from studies at Asian Institute of Technology and Tsinghua University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer and Mathematical Sciences resulting from studies at the University of Western Australia and University of California San Diego.

Anyarat Sookkasemsin
Field Manager
Anyarat is our Field Manager who manages a team of highly qualified enumerators. They provide high quality fieldwork to the high standards set by Rapid Asia. With more than two decades of field management experiences, she has a wealth of experience when it comes to fieldwork. Her team has carried out several complex and challenging projects for Rapid Asia including interviews with migrant workers, interviews requiring interpreters, vulnerable populations and working in rural areas across Thailand.
Before teaming up with Rapid Asia, she has worked with MNC and boutique market research & consulting agencies such as ACORN Marketing & Research Consultant, the Advantage Group International, and Vitamins Consulting & Research. Her team provides a wide range of data collection strategies and services such as street intercept, telephone interviews, CAPI, in-home ethnography, FGDs, IDIs, and mystery shopping.
Her experience is in both qualitative and quantitative fieldwork and has built expertise in finding hard to reach target groups. Anyarat ensures that all studies are hassle-free and a complete success while following industry best practice standards and compliance guidelines under ESOMAR. The goal is to always have on-time data with quality. Anyarat holds a Bachelor of Art in Humanities, majoring in Mass Communication from Ramkhamhaeng University in 2002 and since then she had managed fieldwork operation for other PhD students focusing on various social as well as business researches.

Anupong Techaamnuayporn
Accountant
Anupong is a practicing Certified Public Accounting in Thailand with over 20 years experience and has been the auditor of Rapid Asia since its inception in 2010.
After working for the well know accounting firm Arthur Andersen for 13 years, he decided to set up his own accounting firm (AMA), now with over 10 full time staff to provide full consulting service for many local and foreign companies. In this capacity he has been a fellow of the working group of Institute of Federation of Accounting Professions, authorized by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Thailand.
For a number of years, up to 2011, he was a member and secretary of the Quality Assurance Sub-committee of Federation of Accounting Professions as well as the Audit Committee of Thanasiri Group Public Company Limited (up to present). He holds a Master from the Master of Financial Management University, Diploma In Auditing as well as an Accounting Major Degree from Thammasat University.

Pheraphol Vichitra
Legal Counsel
Pherapol is the Legal Counsel at Rapid Asia providing advice on legal matters and helped register the business in early 2010. Pherapol holds a LL. B. from Chulalongkorn University (1989) as well as an LL. M. from Chulalongkorn University (1996).
He is also a Member of Thai Bar Association. Pherapol has extensive experience with business law in Thailand and is the Founder of SIAM ALLIANCE LAW OFFICE, established in 2000, a Thai law firm with a substantial experience and with specialization in Corporate Law, including IP rights, and Property Law.
Cambodia Office
In August 2010, the Founder of Rapid Asia, Daniel Lindgren, co-founded BMRS Asia (Cambodia) Ltd., together with Andy Gower, Managing Director of BMRS Asia in Thailand. BMRS Asia Cambodia has become a major player in the research industry in Cambodia and serves as a field office to Rapid Asia for social development research carried out in Cambodia.

Andy Gower
Managing Partner & Director of Research
Andy worked as Director with NFO & TNS Global before setting up BMRS Asia in Bangkok with other local research professionals in 2004. He started work in the research industry in England in 1993, with a strong focus on customer satisfaction and service research. Prior to this, he worked in both the retail and hospitality sector, managing locations across the UK. Resident in Thailand since 1997 with an in-depth knowledge of Thai and other Asian cultures, Andy combines strong research, project management and intuitive skills with a working knowledge of most types of research methodologies.
Andy was a founding member of the TMRS (Thailand Marketing Research Society) and is an active member of ESOMAR (the world organization for marketing research professionals).

Phek Siphanno
Country Director
Phanno has an excellent understanding of the Khmer people from all walks of life, and his English skills enable him to provide deep insights to our clients. Phanno has a BA in Sociology and English Literature and a Master of Business Administration, and has been with BMRS since 2011 and speaks fluent English. In addition, he brings a wealth of experience with project management in Cambodia, having been involved with various projects on social development, both quantitative and qualitative, across all provinces in Cambodia. He started his career as a B2B interviewer before quickly moving to a Supervisory role. From there, his skills were further developed, and he has now become Country Director.
Phanno has been instrumental in setting up the field procedures at BMRS Asia, making sure they adhere to international best practice standards and align with the ethical principles set by ESOMAR. This also includes quality control procedures for data collection and data management. As a testament to his work, BMRS Asia has gained a reputation for delivering consistent data quality. As a testament to this, BMRS Asia has worked with Rapid Asia since 2013 on various research projects in Cambodia. He also has deep knowledge about the Cambodian landscape and can provide insight into how, where and who, when it comes to data collection. He also has extensive experience in moderating focus groups and conducting IDI’s covering a wide range of topics among various target groups.

Eng Long Seng
Operations Manager
Having graduated Master in Business Administration, Long now has more than nine years of experience in social and marketing research. He used to work for many research firms such as Feedback, CMRD, MSD, and RealTime data solutions. Also, he used to work as a senior research officer at BBC Media Action. Starting his experience working as a B2B interviewer, he then progressed to be a Supervisor before moving on to be in charge of Quality Control and other matters relating to fieldwork management. His keen eye for detail and numbers makes him a perfect choice to ensure that data collection quality is maintained throughout all of our projects. In terms of qualitative research, Long also lends his hand to conducting IDI’s, Home Visits and FGD’s for various topics such as usage & attitude, branding, lifestyle, concept tests, shopping habits and human trafficking. He also turns his hand in SPSS and CAPI scripting for more than five years. He can control data, clean, review and produced output for data analysis and reporting.

Mavirak Kim
Senior Quality Controller
Mavirak graduated in Sociology from the Royal University of Phnom Penh. He now has more than nine years of experience in social and marketing research. Virak has more than six years of experience in research with two years of data processing with Kantar TNS Cambodia. During his research career, he has been involved in many data processing works and project supervisor for both commercial and social research clients. For social research, Virak has worked for UNICEF, World Bank, ADB, IFES, GIZ, DAI, Winrock, World Vision, PATH and DDD, to name a few. He has joined BMRS Asia Cambodia in 2018 as Senior Quality Controller and handle many projects, including automotive, agriculture sector and agriculture, bank, microfinance, SME, media, and youth. He is a crucial person for fieldwork quality assurance and assists the fieldwork team to achieve good quality data collection. Virak is also responsible for managing project tools, doing desk reviews, conducting medium and high-level key informant interviews, and coordinating and monitoring focus group discussion.

Vandy Tol
Senior Fieldwork Supervisor
Vandy holds a bachelor degree in Marketing from the University of Economics and Law. He has joined BMRS Asia Cambodia since 2021 as a senior fieldwork supervisor. He also used to work for many research companies in Cambodia, including Kantar TNS, Indochina research, Realtime Data Solution and more. Vandy is responsible for managing project tools, doing desk reviews, conducting medium and high-level key informant interviews, and coordinating and monitoring focus group discussion. He has experiences in several data collection projects for both social development and private sector clients. He is one of the critical people reviewing data collection tools, supervising the fieldwork team, reviewing and editing, and ensuring the quality of data collection.

Virak Khem
Senior Fieldwork Supervisor
Virak holds a bachelor degree in Management from CUS University. He works in BMRS Asia as a senior fieldwork supervisor. He used to work for many research companies in Cambodia, including Kantar TNS, Indochina research, CMRD and more. He is responsible for managing project tools, doing desk reviews, conducting medium and high-level key informant interviews, and coordinating and monitoring focus group discussion. In addition, he has experiences in several data collection projects for both social development and private sector clients. He is one of the key people reviewing data collection tools, supervising the fieldwork team, reviewing and editing, and ensuring the quality of data collection.

Chanbopha Mak
Administrative Manager
Bopha has a Diploma’s degree in Banking and finance from Royal University of Law and Economic. She has an extensive background in administration and account. With Bopha’s strong passion for the quality administrative and accounting work, she has obtained Tax Declaration certificate. Starting her career as an administrator with BMRS Asia Cambodia, she is responsible for all administrative and accountant in the company.