Kamaleswar Bhattacharya (29 Aug 1928, near Dhaka [now Bangladesh] - 16 March 2014, Dhaka) was a French Indianist and Sanskritist of Indian origin, a specialist in Ancient Cambodia epigraphy and history.Educated in Calcutta [Kolkata] and at the Sanskrit University of Varanasi, he came to Paris in… Read more

Associate Professor at the UIC-Department of Anthropology (Chicago, USA), researcher at the Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney, Australia, Mitch Hendrickson is a landscape archeologist active on various Angkorean sites. He is the Director of Industries of Angkor Project, Co-Director of… Read more

South East Asia correspondent with the British daily newspaper The Independent. Read more

Stylist, model and muse born in the Dominican Republic, citizen of the world.From Lily's website: "Along a life path that has taken her around the world, she has perfected her own style, a mix of global cultures and the avant garde, often dominated by her favored black." Read more

Madeleine Colani (13 Aug 1866, Strasbourg - June 1943, Hanoi) was a French educator, geologist and archaeologist who explored the northern Vietnamese of Hòa Bình in the 1929s, and published in 1930 the first comprehensive study on the megaliths of Upper Laos, cataloging around ten thousand of these… Read more

American artist Lucille Sinclair Douglass (1878, Tuskegee, Alabama –1935, Andover, Massachusetts) graduated in 1895 from the Alabama Conference Female College, where her mother taught art. In 1899, she moved to Birmingham, where she made a living as both an artist and an art teacher. In 1907 she… Read more

Didier Fassio is a film director and writer, and a TV producer, who authored films about Angkor, in particular Le secret des temples d'Angkor (1996) and Angkor, l'aventure du Baphuon (2009). Read more

Louis Malleret (28 Nov 1901, Clermont-Ferrand, France - 16 Mar 1970, Louveciennes, France) was a French educator, historian, archaeologist, curator and the directeur of École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) in 1942-1947 (interim) and from 1950 to 1956.In the 1930s-1940s, Malleret was the curator… Read more

Peter Boomgaard (? - 10 Jan. 2022) was a senior researcher at the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, Leiden, the Netherlands, and professor of economic and environmental history of Southeast Asia at the University of Amsterdam. He directed the KITVL (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-,… Read more

Andrew Spooner (1840, Paris - 29 July 1884, Cascade du Bois de Boulogne, Paris) was a French-American merchant established in Saigon [Ho Chi Minh Ville] in 1861, a reporter with French magazine L'Illustration who covered the French army's assault on Bien-Hoa on 9 Dec. 1861, and an early Western… Read more

War photo-correspondent and traveling photographer Marc Riboud (24/06/1923, Lyon - 30/08/2016, Paris) is one of the major figures in 20th-century international photography. He joined the prestigious Magnum photo-agency at the invitation of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa. While covering major… Read more

Michael Vickery (April 1 1931, Billings, Montana, June 29 2017, Battambang, Cambodia) was an American historian and lecturer with a passion for Cambodia.In the preface to Cambodia: 1975-1982 (1984), he summarized his personal involvment with the country with the following:I first arrived in… Read more

Director of the Sarasvati Research Centre promoting Indian Ocean Community and National Water Grid for India, Srinivasan Kalyanaraman was from 1978 to 1995 Senior Executive at the Asian Development Bank in charge of some 650 development projects in 29 Asian countries.A linguist and epigraphist… Read more

Dr. Wannasarn Noonsuk is currently teaching at the Department of Art of Design at University of California, Fresno. After receiving his doctorate in art history and archaeology from Cornell University in 2012, he also taught at Walailak University, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, where he is… Read more

Marie-Joseph Guesdon (20 Jan. 1852, Palluau, Vendée, France - 31 Oct. 1939, Paris), known as Père (Father) Guesdon, was a French Catholic priest (´diacre´, deacon, ordained 1874) who was active in Cambodia as a photographer, linguist geographer and researcher in 1874-1881, then in 1883-1888 (after… Read more

Bruno Dagens (1935, Nimegue, The Netherlands) is a French archaeologist, art historian, Sanskritist, and a specialist of Angkor Wat. Professor emeritus of the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 since 2003, he is Honorary Vice President of the International Association of Sanskrit Studies… Read more

William Dampier (baptised 5 September 1651, East Coker (England) - March 1715, London) was an English explorer, buccaneer, privateer, navigator, and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first sailor to circumnavigate the world three times.… Read more

TRAN Ky-Phuong (Trần Kỳ Phương) is a research fellow at National Library of Singapore (January to July 2008),and a senior researcher fellow with the Vietnamese Association of Ethnic Minorities Culture and Arts. He was a curator of the Danang Museum of Champa Sculpture, Danang, from 1978 to 1998.… Read more

Dr. Shimoda Ichita 下田 一太 is an architectural historian who has been extensively working on Angkorean sites.With a Ph.D. in Architectural History of Southeast Asia at Waseda University, Tokyo, Dr. Shimoda is currently Associate Professor at the World Heritage Program in the University of Tsukuba,… Read more

Ieu Pannakar អៀវ បណ្ណាការ (21 Feb. 1931 – 10 May 2018, Phnom Penh) was a Cambodian film director and statesman, who cofounded with film director Rithy Panh the Bophana Center. One of the first Cambodian citizens to study cinema in France, he frequently collaborated with King Norodom Sihanouk for… Read more