Kavi Chongkittavorn was the former editor-in-chief and executive director of Myanmar Times. He has been a journalist for more than three and a half decades, covering Thai and regional politics. He began his career as a reporter in 1983 and became the paper’s foreign news editor in 1986. Then, he was asked to explore Indochina—first as Bureau Chief in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (1988-1990) and later on in Hanoi, Vietnam (1990-1992). After a year at Oxford University as Reuters Fellow in 1994, he went to Jakarta and served as Special Assistant to the Secretary General of ASEAN in Jakarta in 1995 before returning to journalism. He was named the Human Rights Journalist of 1998 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Amnesty International. He was awarded the ASEAN Award in 2010 for his report, comments, and analysis on ASEAN by the Association of Thailand-ASEAN, administered by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1999-2000, he was President of the Thai Journalists Association. From 2000 to 2001, he went to Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow. He served as a member of the jury and from 2005 to 2008 as its chair of the Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, organized by UNESCO. He was an Asia Studies Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington from April to June 2018. He is currently a senior fellow at Chulalongkorn University’s Institute of Security and International Studies and a columnist for Bangkok Post.