Assistant Professor Soavapa NGAMPRAMUAN 
Faculty of Political Science, Ramkhamhaeng University
Bangkapi, Bangkok 10240
Email: soavapa@ru.ac.th and soavapangam@gmail.com
Tel.: +669 36323546
CURRENT POSITION:
- Assistant Professor, Faculty of Political Science, Department of International Relations, Ramkhamhaeng Univesity, Bangkok, Thailand
- Visiting Professor, Southwest Minzu University, College of Economist, Chengdu, Sichuan, China (Specialist: International Political Economy in Asia)
- Visiting Lecture, College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Lampang Campus, Thammasat University, Thailand
WORKING EXPERIENCE
- September 2016 – September 2019
Visiting Fellow, School of International Politics, Economics and Communication, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan
- July 2011 – 2013
Visiting Lecturer for International Political Economy, Faculty of Economics (in English), Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
- September 2004 – June 2006
Teaching Assistant: Course: Contemporary Asia; third-year undergraduate student, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- January 2008 – November 2017
Academic staff to Dr. Surin Pitsuwan, former ASEAN Secretariat General
RESEARCH PROJECTS
- September 2016 – Now
Comparative Analysis of Sub-regional Processes in Europe and Asia: The EU Strategy for Danube Region (EUSDR) and Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) as a case study. Under supervision of Prof. Kumiko Haba, School of International Politics, Economics and Communication, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan (from September 2016- September 2019)
- 1 September 2019 – 30 November 2021
The Silk Road Environmental Program: Case Study of Impact of BRI and Thailand in Economic and Social Development in Rayong Industrial Park. Funded by Institute of Geographical Sciences and National Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- 1 July 2020 – 31 December 2020
Research on Sustainable Development and Covid-19 Pandemic in ASEAN. Funded by ASEAN Centre for Sustainable Development Studies and Dialogue : (ACSDSD), College of Management, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- February 2019 – February 2020
Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Impacts on Thailand 4.0 and Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC). Grant by Research Institute of Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok, Thailand
- October 2016 – September 2019
Participatory management for reducing disaster of flood way in Meklong Plateau (in Thai), Grant by National Research Council of Thailand
PUBLICATIONS (in English)
Article
- Ngampramuan Soavapa (2020) Evaluation of the sub-regional integration of the Greater Mekong Sub- region (GMS) and its effects on Thailand’s domestic economy. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations, 2020, vol. 13, issue 1, pp. 96–110. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu06.2020.10
- Ngampramuan Soavapa (2019) Comparative Sub-regionalism: Investigating Sub-regional Processes in the EU Strategy for the Danube Region and the Greater Mekong Sub-region” (2019), Asia-Pacific Journal of EU Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 97-124 (peer reviewed)
- Ngampramuan Soavapa (2018) Evaluating the EUSDR’s Contribution to Sub–regional Integration Processes in Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies, Vol. 10 (2), pp. 33-48 (peer reviewed)
- “The Relationship between Identity of Being ASEAN Population and Its Own National Interest: Comparative case of Thailand, Malaysia and Laos”, Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University Hong Kong, Working Paper Series No. 185, July 2016 (peer reviewed)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS and proceeding papers
- “Regional Collaboration in Europe and Asia; learning from the European Union Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSR) and the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS)”, 100 years of World Wars and Post-War Regional Collaboration and Good Governance -How to Make a New World Order?-, March 16-17, 2020, Tokyo, March 19, 2020. Kyoto
- “Comparative Sub-regionalism between Central and Eastern Europe and East Asia: EU Strategy for the Danube Region and the Greater Mekong Sub-region as a case study”, European Union Studies Association Asia-Pacific (EUSAAP) Conference, School of Economics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 6-7 July 2019
- “Evaluation of Greater Mekong Sub-region Impact on Thailand’s New 20-Year Economic Strategies”. International Studies Association (ISA) Asia-Pacific Conference, Nanyang University, Singapore, 3-5 July 2019
- “Regional Integration in the Rising of China”, Association of Asian Studies (AAS) in Asia 2019, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, 1-2 July 2019
- “The Relationship between BRI and Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Impact on Thailand Sub-regional cooperation”, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 12-14 May 2019
- “Regional Cooperation in the River: Comparative studies between Danube and Mekong”, World Social Science Forum (WSSF ISC), World Congress, Fukuoka, Japan, 24-28 September 2018
- “EU Strategy for the Danube Region and Multi-level of Governance”, Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) 48th Annual Conference, Bath, United Kingdom, 2-5 September 2018
- “Developmental Sub-regionalism in EUSDR for Multi-level Policy”, Regional Studies Association (RSA), Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, 3-6 June 2018
- “Evaluation of Sub-regional Dynamic of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR)”, European Studies Association Asia-Pacific (EUSAAP) Conference 2017, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, 1-2 July 2017
- “The Relationship between Identity of Being ASEAN Population and Its Own National Interest: Comparative case of Thailand, Malaysia and Laos”, International Studies Association of Asia-Pacific Conference 2016, Hong Kong, 25-27 June 2016 (sponsored by Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University Hong Kong)