Dr.Pornchockchai has had experience in real estate research and valuation since 1982. He is an experienced valuer and lecturer on valuation at the undergraduate and graduate levels and in training courses in Thailand and abroad. He was a consultant to the ESCAP, UN-Habitat, International Labour Organization and other international organizations. He gained a Ph.D. in land and housing from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and had further property valuation training from LRTI-Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and in housing development from Katholieke Universeit Leuven (Belgium).

Currently, Dr.Pornchokchai is the President of the Thai Appraisal Foundation which is a principal member of the FIABCI, President of Agency for Real Estate Affairs, IAAO representative to Thailand, board member of ASEAN Valuers Association, and Council Member of the Appraisal Foundation (USA) - the International Advisory Board which is the regulatory body of appraisal profession in the USA.  His research master pieces include the discovery of 1,020 slums (1985), CAMA (computer-assisterd mass appraisal) modeling (1990), forecast of 300,000 unoccupied housing units (1995 and 1998), study for property information centre (2000), and the roadmap for Vietnamese valuation profession (2006).