Pana is a first-year PhD candidate receiving the distinguished ASEAN Centre for Sustainable Development Studies and Dialogue (ACSDSD) scholarship. His research focuses on building sustainability and ethical culture in organizations to fight corruption and create sustainable growth. Before arriving at CMMU, he was the Executive Vice President at the Thai Institute of Directors, leading one of the largest anti-corruption collective action in the world - the Thai Private Sector Collective Action Against Corruption (CAC). In 2023, the CAC won the Asia-Pacific Anti-Corruption Collective Action Award presented by the Basel Institute on Governance. In 2024, Pana also received the second-highest citation from the Office of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) for contributing to the NACC's anti-corruption work. Earlier in his career, he worked for Shell in Thailand, Singapore, Europe, and the US, leading various engineering, commercial, and management roles, including wind energy and hydrogen fuel cell stations for renewable energy.