Thailand’s ‘Salesman’ Prime Minister Travels the World to Court Investments
- Srettha vows to tackle Thai ‘polycrisis’ with economic growth
- Former tycoon’s economic diplomacy favored by business sector
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Srettha Thavisin, a former property tycoon turned prime minister, has spent the two months he’s been in office focused on turning around Thailand’s below-par economic performance.
To get the nation — crawling at an average growth rate of 1.87% for the last 10 years — running as fast as its peers, he’s chosen to break conventional norms.