Pipat Luengnaruemitchai is Kiatnakin Phatra Securities' economist covering macroeconomic issues. Joining the research team in 2010, he started out by covering the Thailand banks and financial sector. He was later co-head of the CIO office of Kiatnakin Phatra Wealth Management. With experience in investment and macroeconomic policies, Pipat has substantial exposure to the financial sector. Before joining Kiatnakin Phatra Securities, he was a senior research analyst in the Global Asset Allocation Team at Mellon Capital Management, San Francisco. Prior to that, he was an economist at the International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC. Pipat received his PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Global Fellow of Eisenhower Fellowships in 2018.