Siam Commercial Bank’s Dr. Veeratai Santipraphob said he is leaving Thailand’s number two largest lender for a new role as assistant managing director at the Stock Exchange of Thailand on February 1.

Dr. Veeratai said he will oversee the SET’s foreign market strategy and restructure the organization under his management to the direction according to his visionary.

A forty-something, Dr. Veeratai admitted he is new to the field and the stock market is always challenging, but he will utilize all the knowledge he have got in both developing skills and learning.

“The capital market has been offering vast opportunity to learn. I feel it’s a missing piece of jigsaw I’m looking after. I have to learn while I was young and energetic to complete my knowledge in every of field economics,” he said.

A news source reported that Dr. Veeratai has been picked by the Stock Exchange of Thailand’s managing director Pattriya Benchapholhai herself, because he is generally accepted as a talent economist by the people in the finance industry.

The source said the Dr. Veeratai will be replacing Dr. Kobsak Phutrakul, director of the Capital Market Research Institute, who is due to leave for his former position at the Bank of Thailand in January.