People

Soraj Hongladarom

Director

Soraj is professor of philosophy and specializes in philosophy of technology and applied ethics. He is the author of The Ethics of AI and Robotics: A Buddhist Viewpoint, published in 2020 by Lexington Books, as well as The Online Self, and A Buddhist Theory of Privacy, both by Springer. He used to be the director of the Center for Ethics of Science and Technology.

Apiwat Ratanawaraha

Deputy Director

Apiwat Ratanawaraha is an associate professor at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and is affiliated with the Urban Design and Development Center at the Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. His recent research includes projects on city innovations in Southeast Asian megacities, land grabbing and land policy in Thailand, and informal sectors and urban development in Bangkok.

Chulanee Thianthai

Member

Dr. Chulanee Thianthai is an associate professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. Her specialization and research interest cover Business Anthropology, Medical and Nutritional Anthropology, gender differences, and youth culture, particularly among urban population in Thailand.

Siraprapa Chavanayarn

Member

Siraprapa is assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. Her interests lie in social epistemology, virtue epistemology, and epistemic justice. She graduated with a Ph.D. in philosophy from Chulalongkorn University in 2009. She has an upcoming book entitled The Social Dimensions of Knowledge, from Chulalongkorn University Press.

Craig Warren Smith

Affiliated Member

Professor Craig Smith holds concurrent academic positions in US and Asia, most recently Visiting Professor at Peking University’s Department of Information Management. Along with Doctor Ilham A. Habibie, Smith is Co-Chairman of Meaningful Broadband Indonesia, which since 2006 has advised the Republic of Indonesia on its test-market deployment of “meaningful broadband” to low-income citizens. He has had a long standing collaborations with the Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, and now with the CSTS. See his activities with the Center here and here.

Darryl Macer

Affiliated Member

Darryl R.J. Macer is President of American University of Sovereign Nations, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. He is Director of Eubios Ethics Institute and Director of the International Peace and Development Ethics Centre at Kaeng Krachan.