About us

Pimsiri has more than ten years of experience working with local, regional and international non-governmental organisations. She worked with civil society and human rights organisations throughout Southeast Asia and East Asia e.g. Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, The Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, and Timor-Leste. Her interests include business and human rights, digital surveillance, legal analysis, policy development, and international law. She is currently a board member of Rights for Justice (Thai Lawyers for Human Rights) Foundation. She also worked as a consultant for different human rights organisations and the United Nations Human Rights office.

Pimsiri holds Master of Arts in International Law and Human Rights from the United Nations mandated University for Peace, Costa Rica (Asian Peacebuilders Scholarship) and Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She was the first Sakharov fellow from Thailand, having been accepted to the programmes in Brussels with the European Parliament and in Venice with the Global Campus of Human Rights in 2018. She’s currently pursuing a Bachelor of Laws at Thammasat University, with graduation expected in May 2024.

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.

Sawitri holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the Faculty of Business and Technology, concentrating on International Relations from Stamford International University. Before joining Rapid Asia, she interned at Thai-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce as an Event and Communications Intern and was selected to be the delegate representing the UNICEF from Niger at Asia Youth International Model United Nations Offline Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Apart from that, during the time she studied, she attended and was part of numerous events, especially the social development events, to extend her knowledge and connections, as well as, to go beyond her perspective by being the trainee of the student council. Sawitri was also a member of the Rotaract Club (Hua Hin) which is supported by the Rotary Club Royal Hua Hin to provide social development in terms of community service.

As part of Rapid Asia, Sawitri takes a role as Project Assistant to her team. She assists in several aspects, such as developing project tools, doing desk reviews, designing and scripting surveys, conducting medium and high-level key informant interviews, and coordinating and monitoring sub-contractors for primary data collection, including with the administrative work within the company.

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 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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.