Pratya Youngpatana
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Officer
Pratya Youngpatana (“Bobby”) is an Entrepreneurship and Innovation Officer at Wyss Academy for Nature’s Hub Southeast Asia. He designs and implements innovative approaches that develop sustainable business and value chain solutions to address nature–people challenges and generate co-benefits for livelihoods, biodiversity, and climate resilience. Previously, he worked with RECOFTC, where he coordinated participatory action research and capacity development on nature-positive livelihoods, community-based enterprises, and community–private sector partnerships across Thailand and Southeast Asia. He has expertise in multistakeholder facilitation, participatory forest landscape management, and sustainable value chains. His academic background is in social forestry, sociology, and anthropology, and he is currently pursuing further studies in agribusiness.