12 Facts About Kittiratt Na-Ranong

Kittiratt Na-Ranong is a Thai business executive and politician.

Kittiratt Na-Ranong was a deputy prime minister in Yingluck Shinawatra's cabinet.

Kittiratt Na-Ranong served as the Minister of Commerce until January 2012 and then as Minister of Finance until May 2014.

Kittiratt Na-Ranong studied economics at the Chulalongkorn University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1980.

Kittiratt Na-Ranong later studied for an MBA at the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration.

Kittiratt Na-Ranong held the position of managing director of the Stock Exchange of Thailand for five years.

Kittiratt Na-Ranong was a vice director of the Sasin Graduate Institute and president of the private Shinawatra University, founded by the former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Kittiratt Na-Ranong managed the Thailand national football team for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup.

In politics, Kittiratt Na-Ranong became involved with the Thais United party in 2007.

Kittiratt Na-Ranong comes from the Khaw na Ranong family, a prominent Thai Chinese family based in southern Thailand.

Kittiratt Na-Ranong is a great-great grandson of Khaw Soo Cheang, a Hokkien Chinese immigrant from Zhangzhou in Fujian Province who migrated to Penang in 1810 and then to Thailand in 1822.

Kittiratt Na-Ranong was appointed governor of Ranong Province in 1854 and given the princely title of Phraya Na Ranong by the royal family.