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TDP believes in partnerships as a key to successful and sustainable results. We conduct a project by bringing together an involvement from donors, the host country’s government, local organizations and stakeholders. We work most of the time based on personal relationships and contacts in a country. We believe that it is difficult to work successfully in a foreign country unless you can speak the language and understand the culture.  Therefore, all of our projects will have local partners working with us. TDP takes pride in all the work we do and guarantees a success on every project we accept

TDP was established by Dr. Duangjai Intarapravich Bloyd. Dr. Bloyd was born and began her career in Thailand, and later became a US citizen and is now living in the US. Dr. Bloyd thus has unique qualifications and experience from working in both developed and developing countries including Thailand, United States and other Asian countries, and with the private sector, national governments and international organizations

Dr. Bloyd has a Ph.D. in Mineral and Energy Resources Economics and a M.S. in Development Economics, and has over fifteen years research and management experience in a wide range of projects in the areas of mineral resources, energy and environment, and environment, energy modeling and forecasting, economic development, and climate change issues.

Prior positions include Senior Advisor at the International Sustainable Development Foundation, an NGO in Portland, Oregon, where she led the study on “green” hotels in Thailand for the Oregon’s Office of Economic and Community Development Department.  During the period 1993-1994, she was a research fellow at the Program on Resources: Energy and Minerals of the East-West Center, a US federal-funded research institute in Hawaii.  Her work at the East-West Center focused on oil, gas and electricity in the Asia Pacific region and Pacific Islands.

Before moving to the US, Dr. Bloyd worked for NGOs in Thailand, initially as a research fellow at Thailand Development Research Institute and, later, as the Director of the Energy and Environment Program at the Thailand Environment Institute (TEI).  TEI is Thailand’s premier energy/environment research institute.  TEI’s principal client is the Thai government, which contracts with TEI to conduct research and provide recommendations to them on various policy issues. 

While working at TEI, Dr. Bloyd both managed the Energy and Environment Program and worked as the principal investigator on several energy/environment projects including Thailand’s national strategy on climate change under the United Nation Framework on Climate Change Convention for the Office of Environmental Policy and Planning and a project on electricity and environment for the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand to guide the development of Thailand’s electricity sector.

During 1991-1993, she serviced as a full-time lecturer at the Department of Agrigultural and Resources Economics at Kasertsart, a state university in Thailand, where she taucht cources on Mathmitical Economics and Natural Resource Economics.Full CV