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5 Expats Who Have Become Thai Citizens Reflect On Their Naturalisation | Thailand Tatler

Celebrated hotel designer and architect William Richard Bensley, more commonly known as Bill, is an American national who has made his home in Thailand. But how did he end up here? “While I was studying for my master’s at Harvard I wasn’t all that inspired by the classes, but I learnt so much from my classmate Lek Bunnag. On graduation day he asked me what I would do next and I told him I had no idea,” Bensley laughs. “He suggested I join him in Singapore. I had thought of backpacking around Europe but I accepted his suggestion and ended up spending a few years in Singapore and Hong Kong before coming to Bangkok. Lek and I worked together for many years and he taught me so much about architecture.”