Sarinee Achavanuntakul

Director, Climate Finance Network Thailand; Managing Director, Sal Forest

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Bio

A financier by training, Sarinee Achavanuntakul is Bangkok-based sustainability researcher. After spending close to one decade in commercial and investment banking, she co-founded Sal Forest Co. Ltd. to focus on sustainable business research (http://www.salforest.com/) in 2013, co-founded Fair Finance Thailand coalition (www.fairfinancethailand.org) in 2017 to assess sustainability policies of Thailand’s largest banks, and founded Climate Finance Network Thailand (www.climatefinancethai.com) (CFNT) in early 2024 to help mobilize impactful climate finance in Thailand.

Since 2013, she has executed over 35 research projects on a range of sustainability issues in Thailand ranging from business and human rights, food supply chain mapping, sustainable banking, and just energy transition. She has also conducted human rights risk assessment for several large Thai conglomerates, as well as designed and delivered workshops on sustainability issues and human rights due diligence for over 1,200 participants from the government, business, and civil society sectors as of October 2024.

She holds an MBA in finance from Leonard Stern School of Business, New York University, and a BA in economics from Harvard University.