The need to develop a comprehensive financial sector development plan did
not recede following the transfer of governorship of the Bank of Thailand from
M.R. Chatu Mongol Sonakul to M.R. Pridiyathorn Devakula in May 2001. Governor
M.R. Pridiyathorn was a key participant in the Eminent Persons Meeting held in April
2001, and took up the top post at the Bank of Thailand with the view that the project
should remain on the agenda but with a more focused scope and objective that better
reflects Thailand’s environmental limitations and economic reality.