Mukdavan Prakobvaitayakit, Ph.D., CPIP

GPO Thailand
Deputy Managing Director
Dr.Mukdavan Prakobvaitayakit is currently Deputy Managing Director at the Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO), which is the state enterprise supervised by the Ministry of Public Health of Thailand.Dr.Mukdavan is responsible for supervising the operation of Rangsit Pharmaceutical Production Plant 1 as the second major manufacturing facility of GPO and is currently handling another massive construction project at Rangsit Pharmaceutical Plant Phase II from which GPO will tremendously enhance the production capacity of all GPO products in the near future.
Dr.Mukdavan received her bachelor degree, master degree, and PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
She started her career as a production pharmacist in many dosage forms and later she was appointed as QA manager at Rangsit Pharmaceutical Production Plant 1. Her major responsibilities were related to implementing the quality management system, and establishing the validation and qualification activities. That included incorporating some state-of-the-art computerized systems into the GPO’s plants . Dr. Mukdavan plays a crucial role in encouraging her team to achieve the WHO-PQ as a world-class quality standard. Later, the public inspection report (WHO-PIR) is officially released on the WHO-PQ website.
Throughout over 20-year experience in her pharmaceutical industry career, this allowed her to be the first Thai’s CPIP certified person.