Prayuth Chan-ocha
General Prayuth Chan - ocha ( Thai พล เอก ประยุทธ์ จันทร์ โอชา, pronunciation: [ pràʔjút t͡ɕanʔo ː t͡ɕ ʰ a ː ], also spelled Chan -o -cha, born March 21, 1954 in the province of Nakhon Ratchasima, Northeastern Thailand ) is a Thai army officer. Since October 2010 he is commander in chief of the Thai army.
After graduating from the Chulachomklao Military Academy ( 23 year), he served in the 21st Infantry Regiment, of the bodyguard of the queen. Later he also visited the General Staff School and the University of National Defence.
He became deputy commander, commander of the 2nd Infantry Division in 2003, 2005, Deputy Commanding General, and in 2006 the Commanding General of the First Army Region with its headquarters in Bangkok in 2002. In this position it an important role in the coup in Thailand in 2006 came to. After the coup, he was a member of the appointed National Legislative Assembly. He was a member of the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources and has been a board member of the state electricity utility companies MEA. From 2007 to 2010 he was Independent Director at Thai Oil Public Co Ltd.. In 2008 he was promoted to Chief of Staff of the Army. When the government of Samak Sundaravej in September 2008 during the siege of the government building by activists of the People's Alliance for Democracy ( " Yellow Shirts " ) declared a state of emergency, Prayuth was deputy in charge of resolving the emergency. In January 2009 he was appointed adjutant of the king's honorary. From 2009 to 2010 he was a deputy to the commander in chief of the army, Anupong Paochinda.
On 1 October 2010 he was appointed as the successor Anupong to the highest commander of the Land Forces, a post which, in Thailand traditionally also great political importance is attached to. He was also responsible for leading the formed Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation ( CRES ) in April 2010 during the protests and riots of the " red shirts ". As commander in chief of the army at the same time he is also President of the represented in the Thai Premier League football club FC Royal Thai Army and a member of the Board of Directors for the TMB Bank.
Prayuths woman Naraporn was a professor of English as a Foreign Language at the Language Institute at Chulalongkorn University. They have two daughters.