Akanat Promphan (Thai: เอกนัฏ พร้อมพันธุ์; born 12 January 1986) is a Thai politician and Democrat MP who served as Private Secretary to his father-in-law Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban in the government of Abhisit Vejjajiva and as a spokesman for the People's Democratic Reform Committee protest movement.

He read engineering, economics and management at St John's College, Oxford, receiving a bachelor's and a master's degree.

[3] Akanat entered politics shortly after graduating from Oxford, becoming private secretary to his stepfather, Suthep, then Deputy Prime Minister.

[4] In June 2013 he resigned from Parliament, to help lead the People's Democratic Reform Committee dedicated to ousting the government of Yingluck Shinawatra, and served as the organisation's spokesman.

[4] After the removal of the Yingluck government and coup d'état in 2014, Akanat joined Suthep in being ordained as a monk for a year.