Anoulak Kittikhoun

Dr Anoulak Kittikhoun is the Chief Strategy and Partnership Officer of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat. Dr Anoulak leads the Office of CEO in charge of the MRC’s work on strategic planning, international cooperation and partnership, communication and stakeholder engagement, monitoring and evaluation, and organisational development.Before the MRC, Dr Anoulak, a Lao national, was an international staff of the United Nations (UN) Secretariat in New York, including the Department of Political Affairs (UN-DPA) and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA). Earlier in his career, he was a researcher at the Ralph Bunch Institute for International Studies (RBIIS), an adjunct professor of international relations at Brooklyn College of New York, and an advisor at the Permanent Mission of Laos to the United Nations. Dr Anoulak received a Bachelor’s degree in commerce and international relations, graduating as an International Valedictorian, from the Australian National University (ANU) and a Master and Doctor of Philosophy in political science and development from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.