Famous People with Name Korn

Korn Chatikavanij            Origin/Culture/Country: Thai

Korn Chatikavanij: a former investment banker and the current Finance Minister of Thailand. Born in the UK to an elite Thai family, he attended Winchester College and St John's College, Oxford before becoming a successful investment banker. He joined the Democrat Party in 2004 and successfully ran for Parliament in Bangkok in 2005. He was made Deputy Secretary General of the Democrat Party and became a vocal member of the Opposition to the government of Thaksin Shinawatra during the 2005-2006 Thai political crisis. Although he said he was "sad" at the 2006 coup that overthrew the Thaksin government and felt that it was "understandable for any democracy to denounce coups as a concept in general", he felt the coup was a "fait accompli", "inevitable", and had to be looked at "within the context of the Thai political situation."[1] Korn was reelected in the post-coup 2007 elections, but the Democrat Party remained in the Opposition as it lost to the People's Power Party. He was a vocal supporter of the People's Alliance for Democracy during the 2008 Thai political crisis. Korn was appointed Finance Minister to the government of Abhisit Vejjajiva after the Constitutional Court banned the People's Power Party and the Army pressured PPP MPs to defect to the Democrats.