Executive Director

Thippy has had considerable experience as a professional convention organizer (PCO), have managed her own PCO company, TGT Enterprise, which handled local and international conferences for groups of 20 to 1,500 people. The business was later transferred to Asian Business Development Ltd. when Thippy was requested by Christiani & Nielsen (Thai) PCL to set up the Christiani & Nielsen’s Group Corporate Affairs Department in 1994.

As the Group’s Vice President - Corporate Affairs, she was responsible for overall image of the Group in Thailand and its subsidiaries in other countries, namely the UK, Denmark, Germany, Malaysia and Vietnam. She left Christiani & Nielsen in April 1996 to become the first Thailand Representative of Asiamoney, which is the region’s leading financial and investment magazine and is part of the Euromoney Publications Group. Thippy resigned from Asiamoney at the end of June1999, and now represents the prestigious global financial magazine, Institutional Investor.

Thipvibha spent sixteen years in England, completing her ‘O’ and ‘A’ Levels at Cheltenham Ladies’ College. She also holds a Cambridge Certificate to teach English as a Second Language and a secretarial diploma.

During her working career, she has worked for the United Nations Development Program, Johnson & Johnson (Thailand) Co., Ltd. and IBM (Thailand) Co., Ltd., where she was awarded on five occasions the IBM Excellence Award which recognized her for being a consistently outstanding performer. Before resigning from IBM in 1990, she was assigned as External Affairs Coordinator responsible for community programs and the lobbying for software protection.

When the Financial Sector Restructuring Authority (FRA) was established in October 1997, Dr. Bunyaraks Ninsananda, the FRA Secretary-General at that time invited Thippy to join the Authority. Responding to her country’s call, Thippy worked as the Assistant to the Secretary-General at the FRA during the crucial months of November and December 1997, and is proud to have had the opportunity to assist in the restructuring of the financial sector in Thailand.