Kasit Piromya was a career diplomat, having served as Thai Ambassador to the Soviet-Russia Federation, Indonesia, Germany, Japan, and the United States. After retirement from civil service, he entered politics,s became a member of the Democrat Party and its Foreign Minister from December 2008 to August 2011 in the Abhisit Vejjajiva’s government. He’s a member of the House Representative as well as a member of the National Reform Steering Assembly. He left politics a few years ago, having voted against the draft constitution at the national referendum. He resigned from the Democratic Party,y disagreeing with its decision to join a coalition government led by a former general who staged the coup d’etat in 2014.
Kasit Piromya has become active in the promotion and protection of democracy and human rights. He’s a board member of ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights - APHR. He’s also a board member of the Border Consortium, which comprises about a dozen international NGOs looking after about 90,000 Myanmar refugees in 9 camps along the Thai-Myanmar border. He’s also a member of the Caux Round Table - CRT, which advocates good governance and moral capitalism. He is a guest lecturer, a senior fellow at ISIS Chulalongkorn University, as well as a senior fellow at The German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance – CPG, Faculty of Law, Thammasat University.
He is a regular columnist for the Naewna Thai daily newspaper, writing on domestic, regional, and international politics. He also speaks on YouTube and has a weekly talk program on a cable television station.