Julapun Amornvivat (, ; born 8 April 1975) is a Thai politician who has served as the leader of the Pheu Thai Party since 2025. He has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2005. From 2023 to 2025, he served as deputy minister of finance. From 2021 to 2025, he served as deputy leader of the Pheu Thai Party. He is the son of Sompong Amornwiwat.
Political career
Julapun was first elected to Parliament as a constituency MP for the Thai Rak Thai Party at the 2005 election, beating the incumbent MP, Yongyuth Suwapap, and thus flipping the only remaining seat in Chiang Mai held by the Democrat Party. On April 29, 2011, he took part in a protest organized by the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) in Chiang Mai.
In 2019, Julapun won his fourth term as an MP, rising to the position of deputy leader of the Pheu Thai Party in 2021. Subsequently, he became Thailand's Deputy Minister of Finance in 2023 under Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, taking on the responsibility of managing the government's ฿10,000 digital wallet scheme.
Julapun assumed the leadership of the Pheu Thai Party on October 31, 2025, and began serving as Minister of Labor in March 2026 as a member of Anutin Charnvirakul's cabinet.
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