PIPAT LUENGNARUEMITCHAI, Assistant Managing Director, is a Chief Economist and a Deputy Head of Research Group at Kiatnakin Phatra Securities. He leads a team of analysts responsible for giving clients investment advice on global asset allocation.

Prior to joining Kiatnakin Phatra Securities, he was an economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, where he worked on various policy and capital market issues, including the monetary policy and the financial market developments. Subsequently, he was a Senior Research Analyst at Mellon Capital Management in San Francisco, where he worked on a global macro fund strategy.

Pipat received a Ph.D. in Economics from University of California, Berkeley and his BA in Economics from Thammasat University.

He was a Global Fellow of Eisenhower Fellowships in 2018.