Dhanin Chearavanont

Mr. Dhanin Chearavanont is Senior Chairman of the Charoen Pokphand Group (CP). Founded in the 1920’s in Bangkok, Thailand, CP today comprises of global businesses covering animal protein production, food manufacturing, industrial production, services including financial and international trading, modern trade and retailing, telecommunications, and property development. With 250,000 employees and an annual turnover of US$ 39.4 billion, CP operates production bases in fifteen countries in Asia and Europe. CP’s agribusiness in livestock and aquaculture in Thailand, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Russia is modelled on an integrated chain from primary production to processing to sale and distribution. As the first foreign investor in China, CP has, in the course of over thirty years, enlarged it business footprint across the country in feed production, food processing, retail and financial services, as well as pharmaceutical and motorcycle productions.

Mr. Dhanin Chearavanont is recognized internationally for his efforts in the promotion of national development, people’s well-being and international business understanding and cooperation. Named by China’s national media as one of China’s best-known international friends, Mr. Dhanin is the inaugural president of the officially-sanctioned China Association of Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs organized to network among oversea Chinese investors from all over the world. On May 8, 2014, Mr. Dhanin received the inaugural Jinghuajiang (京华奖) or the “Overseas Chinese of

Beijing” Award from the Beijing government, in recognition of the CP Group’s contribution to Beijing’s economic and social development. For his part in promoting close investment ties with Russia, Mr. Dhanin has been awarded the Order of Saint Nicholas by the Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker Charitable Foundation. Mr. Dhanin has been recognized by the President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar for his exemplary services to the Myanmar Government in national economic development. The Harvard Business School in the United States has highlighted Mr. Dhanin’s contributions in the development of China’s rural sector in a recently-published case study on the CP agribusiness involvement in China during the past three decades. Mr. Dhanin has further been recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the world’s philanthropists for several years running. Forbes Asia Magazine in 2011 named Mr. Dhanin its “Businessman of The Year”.

In 2012, Mr. Dhanin received two international awards, the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from by CNBC Asia Pacific, and the “Lifetime Achievement Award 2012” from Bloomberg Businessweek Thailand.

Mr. Dhanin business philosophy is encapsulated in his “Three Benefits Principle” (Benefit to the people, Benefit to the country: and Benefit to the company), which is born of CP’s long business experience particularly among the various developing economies. He sees it as CP’s guiding principle in its continuing mission to become the “Kitchen of the World” to serve surging global food demands.