13 Facts About Chadchart Sittipunt

Chadchart Sittipunt previously was Minister of Transport from 2012 to 2014.

Chadchart Sittipunt's sister, Preechaya Sittipunt, is a retired lecturer in Architecture at Chulalongkorn University.

Chadchart Sittipunt holds a Master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.

Chanchai Chadchart Sittipunt, is the dean of Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University.

Chadchart Sittipunt completed a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Chulalongkorn University and then received a Master's of Structural Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Doctorate of Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the USA with Ananda Mahidol Foundation Scholarship in 1987.

Chadchart Sittipunt used to work as a structural engineer in a private company.

In January 2015, Chadchart Sittipunt was appointed as CEO and managing director of Quality Houses Public Company Limited.

On 29 December 2018, Chadchart Sittipunt resigned from the position and returned to work for the Pheu Thai Party.

Chadchart Sittipunt was appointed as the Minister of Transport in October 2012.

In 2019, Chadchart Sittipunt announced that he intended to run in the 2022 Bangkok gubernatorial election as an independent candidate.

In February 2022, Chadchart Sittipunt officially launched his gubernatorial election campaign, with the slogan "Bangkok, a liveable city for everyone" with important policies such as creating a network of maps of crime hotspots, and developing a public transport system to make Bangkok a city of arts and learning.

Chadchart Sittipunt won the 2022 Bangkok gubernatorial election by a landslide with all districts voting for him in one of the biggest wins in the history of Bangkok.

In 2013, an image of Chadchart Sittipunt walking barefoot into a Buddhist temple went viral as an internet meme, gaining him the nickname of "the world's strongest minister" in Thai internet circles and media.