Company representatives Mr. Robert Allen Jr., General Manager, and Mr.
Jyxiong Juevaxaiki, CSS Division Manager and an AIT alumnus (MBA 2009),
visited AIT on 26 May 2015 to discuss details of the new scholarship
program.
THPC will fund the full cost of the scholarship earmarked for AIT’s MBA
in Energy Business, which is a two-year interdisciplinary program
jointly offered by AIT’s School of Environment, Resources and
Development and School of Management.
The visitors met with Prof. Chettiyappan Visvanathan, Dean, School of
Environment, Resource and Development, Dr. Jai Govind Singh, Energy,
School of Environment, Resource and Development, Mr. Sanjeev
Jayasinghe, Fundraising Director & Interim Director of Alumni
Affairs, Dr. Gabrielle Groves Punyaratabandhu, Head-ERCO, Ms. Lucena D.
Talaid, Program Officer, AIT Fundraising Office.
Mr. Allen added that following the first year, the company intends to
provide one scholarship each year for a total of five full THPC
scholarships over five years. He indicated the company seeks high level
scholars and stressed that the selected student must finish the program
within four semesters without extension.
AIT will provide student progress reports every semester. This is a
non-bonded scholarship where all components of a fully funded
scholarship will be included, including the Lao student’s air fares and
travel costs.
The scholarship opportunity will be finalized soon and advertised
extensively in the Lao PDR, as well as through the AIT Laos Alumni
Chapter and AIT communications channels.
An independent power producer supplying electricity to Thailand and
Laos, THPC is a public-private partnership, owned by a Lao public
company together with investors from Thailand and Scandinavia.
THPC operates the Theun-Hinboun hydropower plant in Bolikhamxay and
Khammouane provinces of the Lao PDR. An extension to the original power
project was completed in 2012 and inaugurated in January 2013.