Chris Baker

Christopher John Baker is a Thailand-based British writer who has made his home in Bangkok for more than 30 years. He began his scholarly career as a historian of colonial south India at the University of Cambridge. He is the co-author of A History of Thailand, Thaksin: The Business of Politics in Thailand, Thailand's Boom and Bust, and Thailand's Crisis, all written with his wife, Dr. Pasuk Phongpaichit. He was the principal writer of the United Nations Development Programme's Thailand Human Development Report 2007: Sufficiency Economy and Human Development, which praised King Bhumibol Adulyadej's self-sufficient economy theory.

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