Surapong Suwana-adth

Surapong Suwana-adth (; born 28 December 1956) is a Thai military officer who formerly served as Chief of Defence Forces.

Education Surapong attended the Armed Forces Academies Preparatory School as a pre-cadet as a prerequisite for attending Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy (CRMA).

Surapong obtained his Master of Military Art and Science (M.M.A.S.) from the United States Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) in 1994; Physics in University of Virginia (M.S.); Physics in Virginia Military Institute (B.S.); and once again attended CGSC in 2017.

Career Surapong's major positions included being the Army Attache at the Embassy of Thailand, Washington, D.C., Director of Joint Intelligence, and the Chief of Joint Staff at the Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters (RTARF) from 2015 to 2016; Chief of Defence Force at the RTARF from 2016 to 2017; Member of the National Legislative Assembly from 2014 to 2019; Chairman of TOT PCL from 2014 to 2019. At the IPU-UN Regional Conference on 3 October 2019, as a senator and a representative of the Thai parliament, he discussed the legislative branch's duty to highlight the UN Countering Terrorist Travel Program and the need to assist the government, which is the administrative branch, in joining the program.

Honours On 11 July 2017 at the Lewis and Clark Center, he was admitted into the International Hall of Fame by the United States Army Command and General Staff College. Prior to this, he was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowships in 1994.

Foreign Order of Military Service Loyal Commander (PSAT; 2013)