Niramon Serisakul

About

Niramon Serisakul is an Associate Professor at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. She received her B.Arch (Hons.) from Chulalongkorn University and MA and D. Eng. in Urban Engineering from the University of Tokyo. Since 2005, She has taught urban design at Chulalongkorn University. In 2013, she became a co-founder and director of the Urban Design and Development Center (UddC; uddc.net) as the first urban agency in Bangkok. UddC is aimed to be a deliberative platform to engage a wide range of stakeholders in the city. It includes local government, public and private sector, and civil society in a decision-making process in order to propose innovative solutions for urban development. UddC work with local residents and stakeholders in a participatory way, and UddC has gained the trust of the Thai government, local government, the private sector and the communities. Key milestone projects of UddC include Chaophraya Sky Park, Bangkok250 (bangkok250.org) and GoodWalk Thailand (goodwalk.org). In 2016, Niramon was invited as a Fellow of the Collegium de Lyon, and an associate researcher in Institute for East Asian Studies (IAO), in ENS de Lyon and RIVES, in Ecole nationale des travaux publics de l’État (ENTPE), France. And year 2017, she became an invited professor at the Science Po de Lyon, France. She has been a regular collaborator with IRASEC, French Embassy and research institutes in France. In 2021, she has been honored with the Ordre des Palmes Académiques on distinguished academics by the French Republic. In 2025, she was honored with an invitation to The Rockefeller Foundation\'s Bellagio Residency Program in Italy.