Kanawat Chantaralawan

Kanawat Chantaralawan (Thai: คณวัฒน์ จันทรลาวัณย์; nickname: Egg; born: June 5, 1989 in Bangkok), popularly known as Dr. Egg (หมอเอ้ก), is a Thai politician and ophthalmologist. He is of Thai-Chinese and Malaysian descent.[1]

He graduated first class honor from the 63th class of the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and has worked as a physician at Queen Savang Vadhana Memorial Hospital, Si Racha, Chonburi for a period of time. Then, he is awarded a Prince Mahidol Scholar, youth program to work as a research fellow at Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, the US. When he came back to Thailand to pursue specialty training, he chose to practice ophthalmology at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital under Thai Red Cross Society, length of time he worked as a doctor for a total of six years.[2]

After that, with the influence of Thai political incidents and turmoil for more than ten years, he received a scholarship from Oxford University - Oxford Thai Foundation to further study in public policy at Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, UK.

In the year 2018, he was assigned by Democrat Party to be a candidate for the House of Representatives Bangkok's 7nd constituency, consisting of Bang Sue and Dusit (only Thanon Nakhon Chai Si) in the general election on March 24, 2019.

Now, he is appointed as an advisor to the Deputy Minister of Ministry of Public Health and is a sitting board of the Governmental Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO), the youngest since this position has been established.