Suchart Chomklin | |
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สุชาติ ชมกลิ่น | |
Suchart in 2020 | |
| Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand | |
| Assumed office 19 September 2025 | |
| Prime Minister | Anutin Charnvirakul |
| Minister of Natural Resources and Environment | |
| Assumed office 19 September 2025 | |
| Prime Minister | Anutin Charnvirakul |
| Preceded by | Chalermchai Sri-on |
| Minister of Labour | |
| In office 5 August 2020 – 1 September 2023 | |
| Prime Minister | Prayut Chan-o-cha Prawit Wongsuwon (acting) |
| Preceded by | Chatumongol Sonakul |
| Succeeded by | Phipat Ratchakitprakarn |
| Deputy Minister of Commerce | |
| In office 27 April 2024 – 19 September 2025 | |
| Prime Minister | Srettha Thavisin Phumtham Wechayachai (acting) Paetongtarn Shinawatra Suriya Juangroongruangkit (acting) |
| Minister | Phumtham Wechayachai Pichai Naripthaphan Jatuporn Buruspat |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 14 May 2023 – 8 September 2025 | |
| Constituency | Party-list |
| In office 3 July 2011 – 8 January 2023 | |
| Constituency | Chonburi 1st District |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1974-07-15)15 July 1974 (age 51) Chonburi, Thailand |
| Political party | Bhumjaithai |
| Other political affiliations | United Thai Nation (2023-2025) Palang Pracharath (2019–2022) Phalang Chon (2011–2018) |
| Spouse | Wimonchit Arintamapong |
| Alma mater | Krirk University (BA) |
| Profession | Politician |
Suchart Chomklin (Thai:สุชาติ ชมกลิ่น) is a Thai politician. He currently served asDeputy Prime Minister of Thailand andMinister of Natural Resources and Environment in the cabinet of Prime MinisterAnutin Charnvirakul Since 19 September 2025. He also has served asMinister of Labour in thesecond cabinet of Prime MinisterPrayut Chan-o-cha From 2020 Until 2023.[1][2]
Suchart Chomklin was born on 15 July 1974, is the son of Wichian Chomklin. He lives in Muang District,Chonburi Province and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Bachelor of Management fromKrirk University. He married Wimonchit Arintamapong and has 2 sons.
Suchart entered the political by becoming a member of the Chonburi Provincial Administrative Organization in Mueang Chonburi District before being elected as a member of the House of Representatives for the first time in 2011 under thePhalang Chon Party and the general election of members of the Thai House of Representatives, 2019, under thePalang Pracharath Party by being elected for a total of 2 consecutive terms.
On 6 August 2020, the royal command was graciously pleased to appoint him as the Minister of Labor under Prime MinisterPrayut Chan-o-cha.
In 2022, Suchart join the Thai-Saudi relations restoration high-level meeting of Prime Minister Prayut. In the past, his father was a Thai worker who had traveled to Saudi Arabia for work before theconflict between Thailand and Saudi that stop Thai workers to work in Saudi Arabia in 1989.[3] On this duty Suchart played an important role in the negotiations to restore relations to bring Thai workers back to work in Saudi Arabia again.[4]
Suchart has received the following royal decorations in theHonours System of Thailand:
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| Preceded by | Minister of Labour 2020–2023 | Succeeded by |
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