About UNESCO Bangkok

More information about UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok (UNESCO Bangkok) and UNESCO Antenna Office in Yangon
Last update:15 February 2024

Our Director

Ms Soohyun Kim is the Director of the UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok and Representative to Thailand, Myanmar, Lao PDR and Singapore. Prior to joining UNESCO, she spearheaded UNFPA’s intergovernmental and inter-agency coordination in New York, led UNICEF’s global partnership with IFIs, and headed UNICEF’s office in the Republic of Korea. She also led UN OCHA’s partnerships at the Regional Office for the Syria Crisis in Jordan and worked as a policy specialist at UNDP in New York. Ms Kim began her diplomatic career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea. She holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from Yale University and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Affairs from Yonsei University, Republic of Korea.

Soohyun Kim

Director of UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok

UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok

The UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok (in short, UNESCO Bangkok) implements the six areas of UNESCO programmes—education, natural sciences, ocean sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and communication and information—in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam. National activities are implemented by National Offices in Phnom Penh and Ha Noi and an Antenna Office in Yangon.

The Office was established in 1961 as the UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Asia and became the UNESCO Principal Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in 1987, the UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education in 2000, and the UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok in 2023. The Office has been leading the regional coordination and capacity development for the Education for All (1990–2000/2000–2015), and the SDG4-Education 2030 Agenda, covering 46 Member States and three Associate Members in the region, and within a network of 14 UNESCO Field Offices.

UNESCO Bangkok represents UNESCO in the United Nations Regional Collaborative Platform in Asia and the Pacific, and it serves as the secretariat of the Learning and Education 2030+ Networking Group in Asia and the Pacific. 

UNESCO Bangkok also hosts the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission’s Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (IOC/WESTPAC). 

UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok's building
UNESCO/S.Chaiyasook

Location

The Mom Luang Pin Malakul Centenary Building, in which UNESCO Bangkok and the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) share offices, is conveniently located on the corner of Sukhumvit Road Soi 40 and is within walking distance from Thong Lo BTS Skytrain station.

Contact Address:

UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok
Mom Luang Pin Malakul Centenary Building
920 Sukhumvit Road
Phrakhanong, Khlongtoei
Bangkok 10110
Thailand

Email: bangkok(at)unesco.org 
Phone: +66-2-3910577 Ext. 0

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UNESCO/S.Chaiyasook

UNESCO Antenna Office in Yangon

UNESCO’s presence in Myanmar dates back to Cyclone Nargis in 2008 when UNESCO Bangkok’s Post-conflict post-disaster platform launched its Myanmar Education Recovery Programme to complement and support the Government’s education recovery efforts. 

In 2013, UNESCO and the Ministry of Education signed the official Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which reaffirmed Article 5 of the Agreement signed on 20 April 1954 between the UN, including UNESCO, and Myanmar.

In this context, UNESCO Bangkok established an Antenna Office in Yangon, Myanmar. Through this, UNESCO Bangkok is able to develop programmes and take action in Myanmar.

For more information about UNESCO’s actions in Myanmar, please refer to Myanmar - United Nations Myanmar: UN Socio-Economic Resilience Response Plan (September 2021).

Location

Contact Address:

UNESCO Antenna Office in Yangon
Kantharyar Centre Office Tower, No. 11, 
Corner of Kan Yeik Thar Road & U Aung Myat Street,
Mingalar TaungNyunt Township, 
Yangon, Myanmar

Email: yangon(at)unesco.org
Phone: +95 9 266814264

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