Sirada Khemanitthathai is a third year PhD student in the department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS. She graduated with a Master degree in International Migration and Public Policy from London School of Economic and Political Science and a Bachelor degree in International Relations from Chulalongkorn University. Previously, she worked as an ASEAN program officer for People’s Empowerment Foundation, a local non-governmental organisation based in Bangkok. In the future, she will be a lecturer at Chiang Mai University, the Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration.