Nitya Pibulsonggram

Nitya Pibulsonggram (Thai: นิตย์ พิบูลสงคราม, RTGS: Nit Phibunsongkhram, June 30, 1941 – May 24, 2014) was a Thai career diplomat and politician.^[1]

Nitya Pibulsonggram
นิตย์ พิบูลสงคราม
Nitya in 2007
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 9 October 2006 – 6 February 2008
Prime Minister	Surayud Chulanont
Preceded by	Kantathi Suphamongkhon
Succeeded by	Noppadon Pattama
Personal details
Born	(1941-06-30)30 June 1941 Bangkok, Thailand
Died	24 May 2014(2014-05-24) (aged 72) Bangkok, Thailand
Spouse	Patcharin Pibulsonggram
Parents	Plaek Phibunsongkhram (father) La-iad Bhandhukravi (mother)
Alma mater	Dartmouth College Brown University
Profession	Diplomat politician

Careers and education

After receiving his B.A. in government from Dartmouth College and his M.A. in political science from Brown University, he joined Thailand's Foreign Service in 1968. Between 1996 and 2000 he was ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Thailand to the United States and then few years later, he became Thailand's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nation in New York.^[2] He served briefly as the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Permanent Secretary (the most senior civil servant of the Ministry) before retiring from bureaucratic career.^{[citation needed]}

After his retirement, he served as advisor to the foreign minister and as Thailand's chief negotiator for a Thai-US free trade agreement negotiations.

In 2006 he was appointed by the military junta to be Foreign Minister of Thailand, serving in that post until early 2008.

At Dartmouth College, Nitya Pibulsonggram was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa society class of 1962.

Family

He was the sixth child of Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram and Than Phu Ying La-iad Bhandhukravi with three sisters and two brothers.^[3] One of them, Prasong, was a Vice-Admiral who had served under the Royal Thai Armed Forces.^[4]

Death

Nitya died of a stroke from leukemia on 24 May 2014, he was 72 years old.^[5]