Umesh Pandey () is a Thai journalist and politician, currently serving as Thai Trade Representative. Umesh previously served as editor of the

Bangkok Post The ''Bangkok Post'' is an English-language daily newspaper published in Bangkok, Thailand. It is published in broadsheet and digital formats. The first issue was sold on 1 August 1946. It had four pages and cost one baht, a considerable amount ...

and an adviser to the

Pheu Thai Party The Pheu Thai Party (PT or PTP; , ) is a major conservative populist list of political parties in Thailand, political party in Thailand. It is the third incarnation of the Thai Rak Thai Party, a political party founded by former Prime Minister ...

economic policy committee. He also served as a vice-minister under prime minister

Srettha Thavisin Srettha Thavisin (, , ; born 15 February 1962) is a Thai businessman and former politician who served as the 30th Prime Minister of Thailand from 2023

Career

Umesh was editor of the Bangkok Post from July 2016 to May 2018. He was forced to resign by the newspaper's board of directors after he refused to curtail criticism of Thailand's military-led government. In 2019, Umesh was a party list candidate for the

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, which was dissolved by the

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