Peeranan is the Chief of Party of SERVIR Southeast Asia. He is also a director of the Geospatial Information department at the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), the implementing partner of the SERVIR Southeast Asia activity. Peeranan led a team of experts to bring publicly available satellite data to address climate, disaster, and environmental issues, while promoting cooperation among regional organizations and the countries in Southeast Asia. Peeranan has been promoting uses of science and technology to address challenges related to Asia and the Pacific’s disaster risk and climate change. At ADPC, before becoming the Chief of Party of SERVIR-Southeast Asia, he led several initiatives in South and Southeast Asia to quantify and map disaster and climate risk and communicate the scientific information appropriately. Peeranan has a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, where he started his passion on deriving solutions for disaster risk. From 2004 to 2010, he worked in a private sector firm in Boston, Massachusetts, to provide risk analytics for insurance purposes across the globe. He returned to Thailand, his home country, and joined ADPC in 2010.