A financier by training, Sarinee Achavanuntakul is Bangkok-based researcher and social critic. After a career in commercial and investment banking, she co-founded Sal Forest Co. Ltd. to focus on sustainable business research (http://www.salforest.com/) in 2013, and one decade later founded Climate Finance Network Thailand (CFNT) in late 2023. Since 2018, she has executed over 35 research projects on a variety of sustainability issues ranging from business and human rights, food supply chain mapping, sustainable banking, and social impact assessments. She has also conducted human rights risk assessment for several large Thai conglomerates, as well as designed and delivered workshops on sustainability for over 1,000 participants from the government, business, and civil society sectors as of December 2023.

Sarinee also co-founded a number of other organizations including Thai Netizen Network (TNN, www.thainetizen.org) to advocate Internet freedom and online privacy, ThaiPublica (www.thaipublica.org), an online investigative news organization, and Salt Publishing (www.salt.co.th), a local publishing house. She holds an MBA in finance from Leonard Stern School of Business, New York University, and a BA in economics from Harvard University.