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about us

A.T. Tri's Founder and Managing Director is Dr. Thawat Watanatada. Our project development team also includes engineers and project managers with decades of combined experience in power project development and renewable energy.

why A.T. Tri?

A and T are the initials of Dr. Thawat Watanatada and his wife M.L. Amaritabha Devakul, who moved back to their home country of Thailand after 25 years in the United States to launch and develop the A.T. Biopower Rice Husk Fueled Power Project in Central Thailand.

Tri was chosen for its dual good meanings. Not only does "tri" represent A.T. Tri's strong belief in the triple bottom line of environmental, social and financial returns, "tri" also has highly positive connotations in the Thai language because it echoes the Buddhist concept of ratana trai or "triple gem": the Buddha, the Dhamma (the Buddha's teachings) and the Sangha (the Buddha's followers)

management

Dr. Thawat Watanatada, Founder and Managing Director, has more than 30 years of work experience in the international infrastructure and energy sectors, including 18 years with the World Bank. He has worked on projects with a combined total cost of over US$7 billion.

Prior to launching A.T. Tri, Dr. Thawat founded and served as CEO of A.T. Biopower.

Dr. Thawat's areas of specialization include large-scale infrastructure and renewable energy project development, technical assistance and management consulting, and finance and investment policy advising. He has worked in China, United States, Thailand, Brazil, India, Kenya, Costa Rica, Australia, United Kingdom, Indonesia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Lebanon.

While at the World Bank, Dr. Thawat provided management consulting services to major clients. For example, he took a leading role in providing policy advice to the Chinese railway system, with a work force of over 3.5 million, on its long-term development strategy, including the conceptualization and feasibility of a 1,300-km high-speed passenger train system between Shanghai and Beijing serving more than 300 million people. He also led a national policy study that modeled the entire Chinese electricity and coal delivery system for the State Planning Commission of China.

Dr. Thawat has written many management, policy and technical papers, several major World Bank reports, and books on highway investment and maintenance policy and strategy now used in over 70 countries. A Thai national, he holds a doctoral degree in engineering economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.