Montri Rawanchaikul is the Chief Executive Officer of PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP), Thailand’s national E&P company. He brings more than 30 years of oil and gas E&P experience to help move the company toward sustainable growth.

For the last few years, Mr Rawanchaikul has been the driving force behind several key achievements of PTTEP, including establishing PTTEP’s foothold in the Middle East, several successful acquisitions and oversight of all producing assets to strengthen long-term growth in Thailand and its neighboring countries.

Assuming the Chief Executive Officer position in October 2021, Mr Rawanchaikul committed to leading PTTEP to thrive by strengthening E&P core values while being responsible for the climate change agenda. He advocates carbon capture and storage (CCS) initiatives, as he strongly believes in the company’s upstream capability to materialize CCS projects to help make the world a better place.

Mr Rawanchaikul holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Chiang Mai University, Thailand, a master’s degree in exploration geophysics from the University of New South Wales, Australia and recently received an honorary doctorate in applied geophysics from Chiang Mai University, Thailand.

Mr Rawanchaikul began his career as a geophysicist at PTTEP in 1991.