Chartsiri Sophonpanich was educated in the United States at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he obtained two Master’s Degrees in Chemical Engineering and in Management. After working at Citibank in New York, he returned to Thailand to join Bangkok Bank on February 1, 1986. He gained extensive experience at both operational and managerial levels in various departments at Bangkok Bank including Foreign Exchange Trading, Marketing, Treasury, Investment Banking Group and International Banking Group before being appointed President on December 1, 1994.

Apart from his main responsibility as the President of Bangkok Bank, Mr. Chartsiri is also a Director of Post Publishing Public Company Limited, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Singapore Management University.