Attakrit holds a Master of Science and a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Currently, he is working as a Research Fellow at Health Economics Research Unit (HERU), University of Aberdeen, UK. Prior to HERU, he was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labour Economics, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany. He also worked with researcher teams in several projects concerning the role of education policy and healthcare financing in poverty reduction in Thailand. His research interests are labour economics, applied econometrics, policy evaluation, and health economics. He has strong background in microeconometrics, particularly policy / impact evaluation. He specializes in empirical works with large micro data sets using R, Stata, SPSS and Python. He has years of experience in teaching and supervising university students as well as presenting his researches and engaging with general audiences through e.g. a talk in community centre, Pecha-Kucha and news website.