WICC2025-PID134-Dr Phiset Sa-ardyen PhD and Dr Reza Lahidji PhD

The Costs of Crime and Criminal Justice in Thailand for Victimised and Incarcerated Women

Authors

Dr Phiset Sa-ardyen PhD

Executive Director, Thailand Institute of Justice, Thailand

Dr. Phiset Sa-ardyen is the Executive Director of Thailand Institute of Justice (TIJ). Under his leadership, TIJ is dedicated to enhance the rule of law and the Thai justice system through innovative, evidence-based, people-centered approach, as well as implement the UN Rules on the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules) in Thailand and Southeast Asia, in affiliation with UN-PNI. Previously, Dr. Phiset served as the Director of External Relations and Policy Coordination at TIJ, responsible for coordinating all key activities to strengthen TIJ’s portfolio as an international research institute in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice. Prior to joining TIJ, he served in key positions at the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) including as the Director of Information and Communication Technology Center where he oversaw the implementation of key policy directives on digital transformation and cyber security across the MOJ, including its flagship project on big data analytics for recidivism prediction and offender rehabilitation.

Dr. Phiset’s educational background is in Bioengineering and Chemistry. He received a B.E. from Tokyo Institute of Technology and pursued his M.S. and Ph.D in Chemistry at New York University. Furthermore, he holds an M.A. in Translation and Interpretation from Chulalongkorn University and an LL.B. from Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand.

Reza Lahidji

Founding partner, Future Horizons, Norway

Dr. Reza Lahidji is an economist specialised in policy analysis and evaluation, a founding partner of Future Horizons, a research-oriented consultancy based in Oslo (Norway), and an associated researcher with the Climate Economics Chair of Université Paris Dauphine (France). Dr. Lahidji’s key areas of expertise are the application of economic evaluation methods to government policies, with a particular focus on access to justice, fundamental rights, and the rule of law, and to public investments, particularly when major uncertainties are involved. Throughout his career, Dr. Lahidji has been consulted by numerous government agencies in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America and by international organisations such as the OECD, the IMF and UN agencies. He is the author of multiple articles and reports, including the OECD White Paper on “Building a Business Case for Access to Justice”.

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