Natnicha is a Programme Officer for Countering People Smuggling at the RSO. She joined the RSO in August 2024, and is committed to supporting Member States’ efforts to address the complexities of people smuggling and uphold the rights and dignity of people in the Bali Process region.
Natnicha’s professional journey includes countering transnational threats and crime, human security, and geopolitics in the Asia-Pacific region, concentrating on Southeast Asia. Before joining the RSO, she worked as an associate for the GI-TOC, an international policy and research institute that focuses on transnational organized crime.
She has also worked at the Office of the National Security Council of Thailand as a Policy Analyst, and has interned at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) with the Strategic Planning and Inter-agency Affairs team, as well as the United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) Preventing Violent Extremism team. As a student, she interned at the Thai Consulate-General in Vancouver.
Natnicha studied International Relations for a BA at Chulalongkorn University, and Global Politics and Security for a MS at Georgetown University. She is currently studying for a Diploma in Law, focusing on Criminal Justice in her spare time.
Podcast recommendation: The Index Podcast by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC). The topics covered include highlights from the Global Organized Crime Index, an online tool ranking levels of criminality and resilience in 193 countries around the world. Each episode covers a different topic of criminal activity and geographical focus, ranging from bride trafficking from Cambodia to China, Tunisia and Human Smuggling, cryptocurrency and money laundering, and the drug markets of East and Southern Africa, for instance.