Beyond his teaching and research, Dr. Chawin holds four institutional leadership roles — at his university, on the national council of Thai university presidents, at a school he chairs, and at a regional award foundation. Each connects, in different ways, to the same underlying interest: building the conditions under which serious learning can happen, across borders, languages, and life stages.
Vice President for Internationalisation, KMUTT
As Vice President for Internationalisation at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Dr. Chawin leads the university’s engagement with academic peers and partners worldwide. The role spans strategy, policy, and the operational architecture that turns institutional ambition into research collaborations, joint programmes, mobility schemes, and capacity-building partnerships.
KMUTT’s international engagement is anchored in its membership of the World Technology Universities Network (WTUN) and its longstanding ties with universities and policy bodies across ASEAN, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. Recent priorities include strengthening Thailand’s participation in ASEAN–EU higher education dialogues, supporting cross-border programmes that respond to regional needs (including engagement with conflict-affected student populations), and shaping the university’s response to questions of generative AI, sustainability, and entrepreneurial education in international cooperation contexts.
Deputy Chair, International Mission Committee, CUPT
The Council of University Presidents of Thailand (CUPT, ที่ประชุมอธิการบดีแห่งประเทศไทย / ทปอ.) is the apex body for Thai university leadership. Its International Mission Committee (คณะกรรมการพันธกิจสากล) is the standing committee through which CUPT coordinates internationalisation strategy across member universities — from student and faculty mobility, to partnership frameworks, to the positioning of Thai higher education on the global stage.
Appointed Deputy Chair in April 2026 for the 2025–2026 term, Dr. Chawin works alongside the Committee Chair to refine and proactively drive the Committee’s strategic agenda, in service of strengthening the role and visibility of Thai universities in regional and international forums.
Board of Trustees, Concordian International School
Concordian International School is an IB World School in Bangkok offering trilingual education in English, Mandarin, and Thai. Dr. Chawin has served on the school’s Board of Trustees since 2015, and as Chair 2018–2023.
The Board’s responsibility is the long-horizon stewardship of the school: mission, governance, financial sustainability, and the quality of education delivered to students across the IB Primary Years, Middle Years, and Diploma Programmes. The Chair’s role is to keep the Board’s attention on the questions that only the Board can answer — the strategic, the constitutional, and the cultural — while protecting the conditions that allow the head of school and the faculty to do their work.
His tenure has spanned generational shifts in international education, including the post-pandemic reset and rising expectations around digital learning and student well-being.
Deputy Manager, International Affairs Committee, PMCAF
The Princess Maha Chakri Award Foundation (PMCAF) honours teachers across ASEAN, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Mongolia who change their students’ lives. The biennial award recognises classroom teachers — not principals or policymakers — whose work has demonstrably shaped the trajectories of the young people they teach.
As Deputy Manager of the International Affairs Committee, Dr. Chawin’s brief is the Foundation’s relationships across the participating countries: the country selection processes, the international jury work, the dignitaries and partners who attend the award ceremonies, and the longer-term question of how the network of awarded teachers continues to influence regional education after their year of recognition.
The role complements his university and school commitments by training his attention on what universities and school boards exist to support — the practice of teaching, well done.