Doctor in Archaeology, director of the International Archaeological Research Institute (IARII, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA), David J. Welch has particularly studied the archaeological evidence of Khmer settlements and state organization in Northeastern Thailand. With its laboratories in Hawai'i and Guam,… Read more

Doctor in hydrology, HANG Peou is Deputy Director General of APSARA Authority. He has extensively studied the hydraulic system of Greater Angkor, its relation with the Tonle Sap and the ancestral irrigation system. He leads APSARA Management Program: research on the natural resources and the… Read more

Henri Cordier (8 August 1849, New Orleans (Louisiana, USA) – 16 March 1925, Paris) was a French linguist, historian, ethnographer, author, editor and Orientalist who largely contributed to the development of French Sinology (even if he knew very little of the Chinese language) and Asian… Read more

Ly Daravuth is a Cambodian art historian and publicist who co-founded (with Ingrid Muan) in December 1998 Reyum Publishing, a Phnom Penh publishing house part of the Reyum Institute of Arts and Culture. Many reference and art books have been issued under the Reyum label until 2009. Read more

Dr. Arsenio Nicolas is a musicologist, philologist and historian of the performing arts from the Philippines, specialized in Southeast Asian musical forms and instruments. With a PhD. from Cornell University, USA, Dr. Arsenio Nicolas is a visiting professor at the College of Music at Mahasarakham… Read more

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Art historian associated with Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), Nadine André-Pallois has published several studies on Indochina painters, in particular from Vietnam. Read more

Jacques Élisée Reclus (15 Mar 1830, Sainte Foy la Grande, France – 4 July 1905, Torhout, Belgium) was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist, a free-thinker advocating for 'unions libres' and nudism, whose monumental work in 19 volumes, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et… Read more

Mamta Dwivedi is a post-doctoral researcher at Freiburg University, specialized in Early Historic South Asia, Numismatics and Religion.Her PhD dissertation in 2011 was 'Yaudheya Coins: Exploring Numismatics as a Source of History (c. 300 B.C. to c. A.D 300.)' (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New… Read more

Colin Grafton (b. London, England, 1947) is a traveller-photographer who came to Asia overland in 1969. He taught English in Laos from 1970 to 1972 and in Cambodia from 1973 to 1975, leaving Phnom Penh a few days before the takeover by the Khmer Rouge. He was able to photograph one of the last… Read more

Alfred Charles Auguste Foucher (21 Nov. 1865, Lorient - 30 Oct. 1952, Sceaux, France, was a French archaeologist, philologist, art and religion historian specialized in Buddhist iconography, a member of the French Société Asiatique and the Commission archéologique de l'Indochine, and the Director… Read more

Rotanak Ros, Chef Nak, is a Cambodian chef who published several books on her country's cuisine, and is active on social media channel. Late 2022, she launched her Luxury Home Dining experience in Pekluong, not far from downtown Phnom Penh on the bank of the Mekong River.Chef Nak's website:… Read more

Andrew Harris is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Southeast Asian Archaeology and Numismatics at National University of Singapore, Singapore, investigating ancient coin production and distribution across premodern Southeast Asia using machine learning. He is Director of the Angkor Vihara… Read more

Jules Ferdinand Marec (4 May 1881, Lorient, France - 13 March 1957, Saint-Sauveur-Sur-Ecole, Seine et Marne, France) was a French military cartographer and explorer who was the first to survey the site of Banteay Srei in January 1914, and sent two statue and stone elements from the temple to Phnom… Read more

Ly Theam Teng លីធាមតេង 李添丁 [also Li Dham Ten] (15 May 1930, Kompong Siem District - 1978, captive of the Khmer Rouge) was a Sino-Khmer researcher and author who wrote many essays and novels that became Cambodian literature classics, and authored the first Khmer translation of Zhou Daguan's 13th… Read more

Louis Adolphe Bonard (27 March 1805, Cherbourg, France - 31 March 1867, Vanves, France) was a French naval officer who was governor of Cochinchina from 1861 to 1863 and, while campaigning against the insurrections, visited Angkor in September 1962. A graduate of École Polytechnique in 1825, he… Read more

Dr. Phanindranath Bose or Phanindra Nath Bose ফণীন্দ্রনাথ বসু (1896-1932) was a Bengali writer and historian, professor of history at the Visva-Bharati University founded by Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan (now Shantiniketan, West Bengal)  who wrote about Indian influences in Cambodia, Champa… Read more

Professor in mainland Southeast Asian history at Northern Illinois University (NIU), USA, Australian-born Trude Jacobsen Gidaszewski (Trudy Jacobsen) has worked at Monash University and Griffith University, the Swedish School for Advanced Asia-Pacific Studies and the School of Oriental and African… Read more

Fray Gabriel de San Antonio (1565?-1608) was a Dominican priest who wrote about the expansion of Spanish colonial endeavors in South East Asia, and counted among the first European visitors to Angkor. Hailing from the nobiliary, he studied theology in Ocaña and Salamanca Dominican convents before… Read more

Samdech Chaufea ('Lord Prime Minister', in Khmer) Thiounn (8 Apr. 1864, Kompong Chhnang - Sep. 1946, Phnom Penh), also called Oknha Veang Chuon ឧកញ៉ា វ៉ាង ជួន, served as Prime Minister, Minister of The Royal Palace and Treasury, and Minister of Fine Arts under the French Protectorate. He started… Read more