Dr. Siripen Supakankunti is the Former Director of the Centre for Health Economics (a WHO collaborating center for Health Economics) and the Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. She also teaches modules on economic evaluation, organization management, and health care financing for short courses offered by the Centre for Health Economics at the Faculty of Economics. Besides, she is the former Program Director of the MSc program in Health Economics and Health Care Management. She currently serves as the resource person for the Public-Private Partnership cluster of the Asia Pacific Network in Health Systems Strengthening (ANHSS). She has also been appointed as a member of several committees and working groups by the Thai Ministry of Public Health. She is the author of two textbooks and a book chapter on “Medical Tourism in Thailand” (Routledge). She has co-authored several textbooks, a book chapter on the Thai health system (with Routledge), and multiple international publications. She was a consultant and involved in many research projects over the last 34 years. Her work took her to countries like Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Laos PDR, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Spain, Sudan, South Korea, Switzerland, UK, USA, and Vietnam.