Tarisa Watanagase
Deputy Governor
Bank of Thailand

Mrs. Tarisa Watanagase (Ph.D in Economics, Washington University, U.S.A.; B.A. and M.A. in Economics, Keio University Japan) is the Deputy Governor with responsibilities in financial system stability issues, including financial sector policy and prudential regulation formulation, supervision and examination and in legal and litigation issues. She also sits on the BOT Board, the Financial System Policy Committee and Monetary Policy Committee.

Dr.Tarisa Watanagase joined the Bank of Thailand in 1975 and had worked in the Research, Banking, Supervision and Payment System Departments. In the Payment System area she spearheaded a modernization program by putting in place the first real-time-gross-settlement large value fund transfer system in Asia, introducing an electronic fund transfer system for small payments and an electronic check clearing system.

One month after the crisis broke out in July 1997, she was shifted back to Financial System Policy. She was instrumental in the resolution of the financial sector crisis, implementation of financial sector reform and upgrading the supervisory capacity of the Bank of Thailand.