Professor Dr.Srisakdi Charmonman has extensive and well-rounded experience in education, business, government, and learned societies. In education, he is the first Thai national to earn a Ph.D. in computer-related area and that was from Georgia Institute of Technology in the US in 1964. Then he became Director of Graduate Studies in Computer Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia in the US, Full Professor of Computer Science at the State University of New York at Brockport in the US, a full Professor at NIDA, a C-11 Professor at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang in Thailand, and Founder and Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the College of Internet Distance Education (www.eLearning.au.edu).

In business, Prof.Srisakdi Charmonman was Founder and Chairman of KSC which was the first and largest ISP in Thailand, once valued at one billion US$, and Chairman of eASEAN Business Council. In government, Prof. Srisakdi Charmonman was one of the few highest-ranking civil servants, i.e. C11 which is the same rank as Field Marshal in the armed forces, and one rank higher than the Provincial Governors. In learned societies, Prof.Dr.Srisakdi Charmonman was Founder and President of Thailand Chapter of the ACM, Founder and President of Thailand Joint Chapter of the Computer Society and the Engineering Management Society of the IEEE, Founder and President of Thailand Chapter of ISOC, and etc.

Prof.Dr.Srisakdi Charmonman was named Asian Computer Man of the Year 1981 by Computer-Asia magazine published in Hong Kong, named Father of the Internet in Thailand by Bangkok Post and several other publications, and named Father of Thai E-Learning by the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge in England.

More information at . Email: charm@ksc.au.edu. Tel: 66 2-723-2925-6. Fax: 662-723-2927-8. Mobile: 66-81-621-4526.