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THYA Bunthon (Khmer: ថៃ ប៊ុនថន born 09 August 1971) serves as the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Cambodia to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other international organizations related to economy and trade in Geneva, including UNIDO in Vienna and WCO in Brussels, since June 2018. Before this, he served as the Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Cambodia to the United Nations Office, the WTO and other international organizations in Geneva, appointed in 2015. He was Commercial Counselor during Cambodia’s ASEAN Chairmanship in 2012, and between 2006 and 2011, served as the First Secretary of the Permanent Mission of Cambodia in Geneva, responsible for the WTO, the World Intellectual Property Organization and other negotiations. THAY Bunthon has held various positions with the Government of Cambodia since first joining in 1996, including as the Deputy Chief of the Service Office at the Ministry of Commerce and member of ASEAN-India trade negotiations between 2003 and 2006, among others. He holds a Master of Business Administration in international business strategy from the Hitosubashi University of Japan, a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from the Faculty of Business in Cambodia and completed study for 5 years (1989 to 1993) at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in Moscow.