Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha

Thai businessman, owner of Leicester Football Club (1958-2018)

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.

The record lists Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha as Thai businessman, owner of Leicester Football Club (1958-2018).

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was born at Bangkok in 1958. His recorded nationality is Thailand.

The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha is described as businessperson, polo player and entrepreneur.

His affiliations include King Power.

The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.

Working from Thailand shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.

Death came in 2018, at 60. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.

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