About Us

Siam Intelligence Unit (SIU), established in 2009, is a private “think tank” specializing on politics, economics, public policy and foreign affairs. SIU staffs are new generation analysts who want to improve the effectiveness of Thailand’s public policy by introducing latest global knowledge and combining with the practically, realistic action plan.

While SIU is based in Bangkok, we co-partner and work with many global and local organizations including The Prime Minister’s Office, Thailand National Telecommunications Commission, Chulalongkorn University, Friedrich Naumann Foundation Asia, the National University of Singapore, Sri Lanka-based LIRNEasia and Thai Health Foundation. See details in Partners section.

Areas of Interest

Our work is focusing on four key areas:

Politics Analyst & Public Policy

One of the famous aspects of SIU is political analysis, based on our experiences and methodology. SIU analytical reports during 2010 Thailand’s political crisis was continuously released and widely distributed and reviewed among Thai internet users. SIU also introduced “Scenario Planning” approach to create dialogue atmosphere in Thai polarized politics. We organized a public seminar in January 2010 and invited the representative of both sides to discuss.

Economics Policy

Many of SIU staffs are from economics aspects. We are very interested in Thai macro economics policy, especially Thailand’s economics structure and Creative Economy policy. We also have followed global economy situation closely with many publications, lectures and seminars about world’s economics movement.

Foreign Affairs

SIU believes in united & peaceful ASEAN community and always opposes Thailand’s foreign policies that introduces conflict to the region. SIU and Institute of Asia Studies, Chulalongkorn University jointly organized a public seminar “ASEAN Community 2015”on 25 January 2011 with Prof. Dr. Surakiart Sathirathai, former Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand as a keynote speaker.

SIU website (siamintelligence.com) frequently reports global foreign affairs, i.e. US Election, Egypt Protest or China’s relation with India.

Media & Technology

SIU researchers advise Thailand National Telecommunications Commission on various telecom policies, including 3G auction and SMS Spam policy. Beside of pure technology policy, SIU also works on ‘technology for public policy improvement’ with several government projects, such as  “Farmers’ Income Insurance”.

On the media front, SIU joined new media research project with Chulalongkorn University and have some “new media” consult for several Thailand’s media group, including Thai Rath, largest newspaper in Thailand.