Thai sports administrator and longtime political advisor Dr. Gongsak Yodmani has earned the United States Sports Academy’s 2022 International Honorary Doctorate Award. Yodmani is the current Governor of the Sport Authority of Thailand (SAT), with whom the Academy just completed its longstanding Sports Study Tour program.

Each year as part of its Awards of Sport program, the Academy presents its International Honorary Doctorate to a person who has made outstanding contributions to sport and to society. Yodmani will visit the United States to accept his Honorary Doctorate on the Academy campus at the Awards of Sport event on Thursday, 10 November, 2022.

Prior to his service to the SAT, Yodmani worked as the CEO of Supongsa Co., Ltd. He also worked as an advisor to the Governor of Bangkok M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra, and as managing director of Suthadilok Co., Ltd. He also worked as an advisor at various times to Thailand’s minister of science and technology and minister of finance and was the legal administrator for the Bank of Thailand.

Yodmani has earned several Thai royal decorations including: Knight Commander Second Class of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant and Commander Third Class of the Most Noble Order of the Crown of Thailand.

The Academy’s Awards of Sport honor those who have made significant contributions to sport in categories as diverse as the artist and the athlete. The Academy’s American Sport Art Museum and Archives (ASAMA) annually recognizes these men and women through its Sport Artist of the Year, Honorary Doctorates, Athletes of the Year and Alumni of the Year awards.