Associate Professor Dr. Suparak Suriyankietkaew currently works as a full-time lecturer, with a management position of Assistant Dean for Business and Community Relations, at College of Management, Mahidol University. In 2026, she is ranked as the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University with the real-world research impact. Her research endeavors have led her to Top-5 World leading scholar in Sustainable Leadership. She is recognized as an elite, heavily-vetted academic researcher backed by top-tier global and prestigious funding bodies with excellent Q1/Q2 international publication. Her recent research innovation development is the copyrighted Sustainable Well-being Survey and Application funded by Thai Health Foundation. (See: https://www.cm.mahidol.ac.th/web/faculty-research/research-cluster/swi)

She holds double PhDs in Management from two leading universities from two countries, Macquarie Graduate School of Management (Australia) and Mahidol University (Thailand), completed under the prestigious International Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship (iMQRES) and the Royal Golden Jubilee PhD grant of the Thailand Research Fund in 2015. Prior to her PhDs, she spent a decade living and studying abroad since her high school in Virginia, USA, as well as obtained both bachelor (BSc) and master (MSc) degrees from University of Maryland, USA.

In academia, she has received many excellent teaching awards for several consecutive years, published in several international journals/books and worked collaboratively with renowned worldwide scholars. She has been invited as a special guest speaker/lecturer for various universities and a prominent research fellow at Institute of Sustainable Leadership (Australia). Over a decade, she has pioneered several cutting-edge funded sustainable development and sustainability projects as Principal Investigator / Research Project Leader. Notably, her successful projects has contributed to multi-faceted policy advocacy and sustainability applications with links to diverse UN SDGs (i.e. climate-health impact, sustainable well-being, corporate sustainability, environment social and good governance (ESG), bio-circular-green (BCG) economy, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, and value-based management (i.e. Sufficiency Economy Philosophy, Gross National Happiness, Applied Buddhism, Mindfulness in Organization (MIO)).

Apart from her academic contribution, she has worked professionally more than 20 years as a management and strategy practitioner, trainer and special consultant for global/multinational corporations, plus local and international governmental agencies in Thailand and abroad. Her continuing efforts empower executive leaders and organizations to drive meaningful values, high performance, sustainability, and resilient growth.

With the world-class education from three continents (i.e. North America, Australia and Asia), the solid research backgrounds in empirical, quantitative and qualitative research and several years of global/multinational work experiences, Dr. Suparak brings a unique contribution to management education and practice.