Thailand’s Government Pension Fund (GPF) has promoted Srikanya Yathip to secretary general, succeeding Vitai Ratanakorn, who left recently to head the state-owned Government Savings Bank.
Dr. Srikanya’s appointment to head the civil service pension fund was effective August 1, a GPF spokesperson tells Asia Asset Management.
She joined the fund in 2010 and had been the acting secretary general since Mr. Vitai left to become president and chief executive officer of the Government Savings Bank on July 1.
She was previously the GPF’s deputy secretary general, corporate council, overseeing its corporate strategy.
In that position, which she had held since 2012, she was responsible for driving integration of environmental, social and governance factors into decision making about the GPF’s investments, the spokesperson says, adding that her successor has not been named.
The GPF had 961 billion baht (US$29.53 billion) of net assets and cash as of end-2019.
