J.V.G. Mills (1887, Hastings, UK -1987, Geneva, Switzerland) was a British colonial administrator and judge appointed to the Straits Settlements at age 24, a translator from Cantonese, Fukienese and standard Chinese, and a specialist in Southeast Asia seamanship and seaways. Based in Canton for two… Read more

Ma Huan 馬歡 ﻣَﺎ ﺧُﻮًا (c. 1380, Kuaiji, Zhejiang Province, China –1460) [courtesy name Zongdao 宗道, pen name Mountain-woodcutter 會稽山樵] was a Chinese voyager and translator who accompanied Admiral Zheng He on three of his seven expeditions to the Western Oceans. Like Zeng He (romanized Cheng Ho) --… Read more

Fray (Friar) Marcelo de Ribadeinera (or Ribadeynera) (1560 or 1562, Palencia, Spain - 1606, Salamanca) was a Spanish Franciscan missionary part of the mission to the Philippines that left Sevilla on 9 January 1593 to reach Manila in May 1594 under the supervision of Padre Ortiz Cabezas. He was sent… Read more

Tess Davis is the Executive Director of the Antiquities Coalition, launched in order to "protect our shared heritage and global security, leading the international campaign against cultural racketeering, the illicit trade in ancient art and artifacts. We champion better law and policy, foster… Read more

Dr. Ronald M. Davidson is a professor and researcher in religious studies at Fairfield University, Connecticut, USA., focusing on the social and intellectual aspects of Buddhism in Asia, primarily the Mahayana Buddhist ritual and its crossover into early tantrism in India, from the fifth to the… Read more

Federico Carò is a researcher in archaeology and petrography at the Scientific Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), New York City, USA. In 2017, he published with M. Polkinghorne and J.G. Douglas ¨Carving at the Capital: A stone workshop at Hariharalaya, Angkor¨(Smithsonian… Read more

Tan Sri Loke Wan Tho 陸運濤 (14 June 1915, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, British Malaya - 20 June 1964, Taichung, Taiwan) was a Malaysian-Singaporean business magnate in the nascent film industry, an ornithologist, and a gifted photographer.The director of Cathay Organisation in Singapore and Malaysia, and… Read more

Denise Heywood is an art historian, author, lecturer, photographer and journalist. She worked in Cambodia for three years in the 1990s and has been a scholar of Southeast Asian art ever since. Her books include Ancient Luang Prabang (also in French) and Cambodian Dance: Celebration of the Gods,… Read more

Established 2020, opened to the public in 2022. Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Read more

Chhang Youk (1961, Phnom Penh) is the Executive Director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC CAM), the first Cambodian organization (launched in 1997) aiming at bringing "memory, justice and healing"to the Kingdom after the dark years of Khmer Rouge repression and civil war.A survivor of… Read more

Prum Sisaphantha ព្រំ សុីសាផាន្ធា (3 June 1956, Phnom Penh) is a language teacher and historian of Khmer classical dance who, after studying in Singapore and Russia, was a trainee and researcher with the Khmer Classical Ballet from 1973-1975 before being forced into agricultural labor in Battambang… Read more

Keo Narom កែវ ណារុំ (6 Feb. 1946, Phnom Penh) is a Cambodian writer, editor, musicologist and the vice-director of the Committee on Culture and Arts at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia. She is the author of several books on Cambodian musical instruments and musical forms, including… Read more

Alexandra Marguerite Clémentine Cousteau (21 March 1976, Los Angeles County, USA) is a filmmaker, sustainability public speaker and environmental activist who explored the Angkor region in 2008-2009. Continuing the work of her grandfather Jacques-Yves Cousteau and father Philippe Cousteau,… Read more

Chaijitvanit Somkid is a Thai freelancer photographer and illustrator, after being the first female staff photo-reporter for the two major Thai newspapers in English language, The Nation and The Bangkok Post. In August 2016, Somkid curated an exhibition of artwork created in Buddhist nuns from… Read more

Malcolm John MacDonald (17 August 1901, Lossiemouth, Scotland – 11 January 1981, Maidstone, Kent, England) was a British politician and "unconventional" diplomat, an ornithologist and art collector (Chinese ceramics, in particular), a promoter of 'cultural decolonisation' who published in 1958 what… Read more

Laurie Woolever is an American writer and editor, and spent nearly a decade assisting Anthony Bourdain, with whom she coauthored the cookbook Appetites in 2016. She has written about food and travel for the New York Times, GQ, Food & Wine, Lucky Peach, Saveur, Dissent, Roads & Kingdoms, and… Read more

Gilles Cayatte is a French film and movie director and writer, known for Spécial investigation (2008), Nova (1974) Plus belle la vie (2004), Google, The Thinking Factory (2008), The Nine Lives of Norodom Sihanouk (2008), Erdogan: The Making of a Sultan (2016), The Tragedy of Space Shuttle Columbia… Read more

Nils Tremmel is an independent historian and researcher who launched The Angkor Guide website in the 1990s. In 1997, he self-published his translation of Maurice Glaize's Guide des monuments d'Angkor.His personal website shows that he also studied the history of Haiti, and the Wonderland Trail in… Read more

Anthony Michael "Tony" Bourdain (25 June 1956, Manhattan, NYC, USA - 8 June 2018, Kaysersberg-Vignoble, France) was an acclaimed food and travel writer, food explorer, ex-prep cook and ex-chef, who portrayed the planet, its people and their culinary habits (or quirks) while relentlessly traveling… Read more

Suthep Kritsanavarin is a Thailand leading photojournalist covering environmental, social and humanitarian issues in Southeast Asia for nearly two decades. His award-winning work has been published internationally in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, National Geographic Thailand,… Read more