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AUGUST 2013
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AUGUST 2013
HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn grants Royal Audience to AIT
hailand’s Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on 24 July 2013 granted a Royal Audience at the Dusitdalai Pavillion, Chitrlada Palace to a delegation led by AIT’s Interim President Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, Prof. Kanchana Kanchanasut, Dr. Weerakorn Ongsakul and Ms. Wannapa Pliansri, along with a group of officials from the Provincial Electricity Authority of Thailand (PEA). The AIT delegation donated THB 200,000 as a part of the proceeds from the 2nd AIT-PEA International Conference and Utility Exhibition on Power and Energy Systems: Issues and Prospects for Asia (ICUE 2011) to the Chaipattana Foundation. The event, organized by AIT through its Energy Field of Study in collaboration with PEA was a part of the celebrations for HM King
Bhumibol’s 7th Cycle Birthday Anniversary in 2011. Her Royal Highness spent a particularly long time interacting with the AIT representatives, speaking with the visitors for approximately 10 minutes. HRH happily recounted her time as an AIT student of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems in the 1980s. HRH told the AIT president that she would like to have a geographic map detailing the potential for various forms of natural energy found in the Kingdom. President Worsak informed HRH that the Institute’s experts would certainly provide her with this type of geographic map.
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