BANGKOK: Thailand’s cabinet has named Sethaput Suthiwart-Narueput, the prime minister’s economic adviser and a former senior World Bank economist, as the next central bank governor, a government house source said.
The new chief, with a five-year term, will face the tough task of steering South-East Asia’s second-largest economy through the coronavirus pandemic, and with near-zero interest rates and high household debt.
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