Chanintira na Thalang is associate professor at the Faculty of Political Science at Thammasat University. Her current research interests include Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), global international relations, ethnic conflicts and ethnonationalism with a special focus on Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. She is the author of a number of books written in Thai. Her work has also been published in English in a variety of academic journals such as the Pacific Review, Nations and Nationalism, Asian Survey, Electoral Studies, the Journal of Current Southeast Asia, the Australian Journal of International Affairs, and Asian Ethnicity.

More recently, na Thalang co-edited a volume entitled International Relations as a Discipline in Thailand: theory and practice published with Routledge in 2019 and two special issues published in The Pacific Review and Contemporary Southeast Asia in 2022.

Na Thalang was an event speaker at the Dialogue.