Conveners

Penchom Saetang is the Founding Executive Director, Ecological Alert and Recovery–Thailand (EARTH), a non-profit foundation focused on health & environment, industrial pollution & impact, social and environmental justice and chemical safety issues. Penchom has worked on a range of environmental monitoring training, community empowerment, law and policy advocacy, and action research including transboundary movement of waste into Thailand, chemical in products and toxic chemicals in environment in industrial development areas.

In 2015, EARTH established a citizen science project to protect the environment and public health by gathering data on the chemical contamination in the environment caused by industries. Her achievement has been strengthening the negotiation power of people and helping affected communities’ exact accountability from the polluters and government to ensure their safety and that of the general public. Penchom’s public policy engagement includes her service at the Advisory Board of the Council of Work and Environment-Related Patient Network of Thailand, Environmental Litigation Division in the Civil Court (2017 to 2024) and Subcommittee on Academic, Occupational and Environmental Diseases Bureau, Department of Disease Control, and civil court expert witness on industrial pollution.

Penchom was Asian Public Intellectual Fellow, funded by the Nippon Foundation, and was elected to the Ashoka Fellowship in 2010.