Ploypailin Kijkasiwat is a lecturer in Finance, Faculty of Business Administration and Accountancy, and Assistant Dean of International Affairs, at Khon Kaen University, Thailand. She received her PhD (Finance and Accounting) from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, in 2019. Ploypailin has more than seven years of teaching and research experience. Her research interests include entrepreneur finance, SMEs and start-up finance, private equity, and venture capital. Ploypailin has published many papers in peer-refereed academic journals.