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“We have capital adequacy ratios in our system that would make western banks weep with envy. Our problem is that banks are not lending” Korn Chatikavanij |
BY CONVENTIONAL MEASURES, if ever a man was fated to lead it would be Thailand’s debonair finance minister, Korn Chatikavanij. Indeed, the 45-year-old Korn has the profile of someone destined to head the UK finance ministry as chancellor of the exchequer, rather than the Thai treasury in Bangkok. The grandson of a privy councillor to Thailand’s royal court, Korn was born in London’s South Kensington and was educated at English schools, including Winchester College, before taking a philosophy, politics and economics degree at St John’s College, Oxford.
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