Asst. Prof. Dr. Jirayu Poomontree Kasemsant, the Director of the Career Training Center at Martin de Tours School of Management and Economics, has been featured by Assumption University as one of the exemplary personnel via the following interview: (Asst. Prof. Dr. Jirayu Poomontree Kasemsant – Assumption University of Thailand (au.edu))

Dr. Jirayu’s commitment to lifelong learning is evidenced by his three Master’s degrees to complement his PhD. Bangkok born, Aj Kaew, as he is known on campus, studied at Saint Gabriel’s (SG Batch 63) before earning a Bachelor’s degree in applied statistics (2^nd Hons) from KMITL. Then, Dr. Jirayu earned two Master’s degree; Chulalongkorn University for statistics and the University of Wollongong for Business Information System (AU Scholarship) before completing his Ph.D. in Management from the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA), followed by a third Master’s degree from NIDA in Business Economics. He has also received 2 Senior Executive Certificates in Public Economics (Batch 5) and AEC (Batch 4) from King Prajadhipok’s Institute. Aj Kaew enjoys reading about the Three Kingdoms and shares Zhuge Liange’s adage “Know him, know us, a hundred battles, a hundred wins”.

From 2009 till now, Asst. Prof. Dr. Jirayu led an elite team from Thailand Marketing Research Society (TMRS) to reinvestigate how the Social Economic Status (SES) of Thais has progressed due to Covid-19 pandemic and has been a member of TMRS since 1989 and a board member of Marketing Association of Thailand (MAT) between 2017 and 2018.