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Luigi BRESSAN Bertil LINTNER Born in Italy in 1940 and ordained priest Is a Swedish journalist and author based in 1974. He was appointed archbishop in Chiang Mai. His articles have in 1989. From 1971 he worked in the appeared in the Far Eastern Economic Vatican diplomatic service, with posts Review, the Wall Street Journal, Jane’s in Korea, , and South-East Asia. Intelligence Review, Current History, From 1993 to 1999 he was Papal and more than 80 other international to the Kingdom of Siam. Mgr Bressan publications. He is also the author of five is currently Archbishop of Trent in Italy. books on Burma and one on organized crime in the Asia-Pacific region. John HAYLOCK Is a Cambridge graduate who has lived Stuart MUNRO-HAY in Baghdad, Tokyo, Cyprus, Cairo, and Holds a PhD from the Africa department Tangiers, and now, in his eighties, of the School of Oriental and African gravitates between Hove, Chiang Mai Studies, University of London, and has and Japan according to the season. He lived in for many years. He is has published more than six novels, the author of many books, including numerous short stores, an autobio- Nakhon Sri Thammarat. Archaeology, graphy, and translated two works from History, and Legends of a Southern Thai French. He was elected a Fellow of the Town, Bangkok, 2000. Royal Society of Literature in 1995. Hans PENTH Helen JAMES Born Berlin, 1937; studied languages and Is a visiting fellow with the Centre of history of Southeast Asia at Frankfurt- International Studies, Cambridge am-Main, Paris, and Lisbon; Dr.Phil. University. She is also a visiting fellow Frankfurt/M, 1964. German Academic with the Research School of Pacific Exchange Service, Chulalongkorn Studies, Australian National University. University 1964-5, Chiang Mai University, She was previously Executive Director 1965-7. German Research Council of the Asia Research and Development scholarship to study northern manuscripts Institute and Director of the Thai/ in monasteries, 1967-9. Since then Studies Centre, University of lecturer and researcher on Lan Na Canberra. She has held academic posts history. Founded the Archive of Lan Na in Thai universities and spent fourteen Inscriptions in 1977 and still active with years teaching in Thailand, and spent 14 the Archive at the Social Research years teaching and living in Thailand. Institute.

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Marco RONCARATI history. A former Hon. Editor of JSS, he Born London 1967, studied at LSE is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, and SOAS (PhD 2001); taught at a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Thammasat, Assumption and Rangsit Académiques, and an Honorary Member universities for eight years. He is now of the Siam Society. based in London practicing comple- mentary medicine. In 2002 he published David SMYTH a book in Thai and English entitled Is senior lecturer in Thai at the School Home is in the Heart dealing with of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), contemporary issues in Thai society. University of London. His published works include Teach Yourself Thai Dawn F. ROONEY (1995, revised 2003), Thai: an essential An art historian specializing in Southeast grammar (2002), and Colloquial Asia, Dawn Rooney is a Fellow of the Cambodian (1995). He has also Royal Geographical and the Royal translated a number of Thai novels and Asiatic Societies in London and an short stories into English, including advisor to the Society for Asian Art at Siburapha’s Behind the Painting (1990), the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. K. Surangkhanang’s The Prostitute Dr. Rooney, who has lived in Thailand (1994) and Chart Kortbjiti’s No Way Out for the past three decades, is the author (2003). of eight books on the culture of the region including a definitive guide to Susan TALBOT Angkor. She was a scholar in residence Recently completed her PhD in for one month at the Rockefeller anthropology at the University of Otago Foundation Study Center in Bellagio, in New Zealand. Her thesis examined Italy in 2002 where she completed her the transition from the Iron Age to most recent book, Thai Buddhas Angkor in northeast Thailand. She (Bangkok, 2003). now lives in London and is currently working on a project financed by the Michael SMITHIES Evans Fund of the University of Born London, 1932, and educated at Cambridge, concerning the small Oxford, Berkeley, and Paris. After Angkorean hospital chapel and teaching in France, California, and resthouse sites of northeast Thailand. Gibraltar, he joined the British Council, serving in Thailand, , and Karl E. WEBER Indonesia. He has also worked in graduated from Heidelberg University, universities in Hong Kong, Papua New Germany, in ethnology (M.A., 1965) and Guinea, and . He retired from sociology (Ph.D., 1966). Formerly with the United Nations in Bangkok in 1992 the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg and has since written about Siamese University, he was professor at the Asian

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Institute of Technology, Pathum Thani, edition of G. J. Younghusband’s travels Thailand, 1978-2002. His work in Asia to Keng Tung (forthcoming). over more than 40 years includes research in countries of South and Stephen B. YOUNG Southeast Asia, notably in Bangladesh, Is the Global Executive Director of the Thailand, Nepal, and Pakistan. Caux Round Table, an international network of senior business leaders. He David K. WYATT graduated valedictorian of the 1963 class Is the John Stambaugh Professor of at International School, Bangkok, when History Emeritus, of Cornell University. his father Kenneth T. Young was He recently retired. His most recent American Ambassador to Thailand. In books are Thailand: A Short History July 1966 Mr Young discovered the (2nd ed., 2003), Siam in Mind (2002), Bronze Age site of Ban Chiang by Reading Thai Murals (2004), and an tripping over a tree root.

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