Dr. Krongkant is a disaster management expert for more than 15 years, working on disaster preparedness, emergency response, and disaster risk reduction.
She worked as deputy program manager for the program for Enhancement of Emergency Response in India, Nepal, Philippines and Indonesia at the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center where she organized core regional training courses on disaster management and developed land mine risk education program.
She has spearheaded Community-based and Disability and Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) projects in Thailand, Viet Nam and the Philippines and led the development of a manual for community preparedness, evacuation, and community planning being used by Thailand’s Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department.
Dr. Krongkant worked as researcher in Thailand’s National Disaster Management Capacity Development Program with team of experts from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for eight years. She has also been a disaster risk reduction consultant for the University of Sydney, Community Based Management (CBM) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2015.
As a Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) expert, Dr. Krongkant has been a resource person at the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Academy, Local Administrative Development Institute, and a number of universities.
Dr. Krongkant has a Ph.D. from the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand where she studied community response, evacuation decision, and early warning.