Initially a math teacher, Alain Daniel (1940-2020, France) became a leading expert in Khmer language and translation after his first trip to Cambodia, in 1965, as the winner of Le Grand Voyage, a contest sponsored by the French TV public channel and Air France. Studying Khmer language and… Read more

Oliver William Wolters (8 June 1915, Reading, UK – 5 December 2000, Ithaca, N.Y., USA) was a British academic, historian and author who did pioneering work on the ancient Malay kingdom of Srivijaya, following the groundbreaking studies by George Coedès. He was also a Malayan civil servant and… Read more

Marie-Etienne-Auguste Barth (22 March 1834, Strasbourg - 15 Apr 1916, Audierne, France) was a secondary school teacher in his native Alsace (in Bouxwiller) when he started to study ancient Indian literature and Sanskrit by himself. Within less than two decades, the self-taught Indianist became one… Read more

Kenro Izu (井津 建郎, Izu Kenrō, 1949, Osaka, Japan) is a worldwide acclaimed photographer who published two books on Angkor, Light Over Ancient Angkor (Friends Without A Border, 1996, with all proceeds donated to the association he founded) and Passage to Angkor (id., 2006, with poems by Helen… Read more

Dr.Nai Pan Hla is a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He is the author of A short Mon History (Myanmar Knowledge Society, Yangon, 2013). Dr. Pan Hla has also published Eleven Mon Dhammasāt Texts (collected… Read more

Potuguese historian Vanessa Loureiro is a consultant and executive officer with several companies and institutions. To her MBA in History from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and a doctorate from Paris I University (Panthéon Sorbonne), Vanessa Loureira added masters in management and finances from the… Read more

Scottish photographer and geographer John Thomson (14 June 1837, Edinburgh – 29 Sept. 1921, Edinburgh) was a pioneer in photographying the ruins of Angkor in 1866, part of his ten-year long travel stint across Asia after joining his elder brother William in Singapore in 1862.When he left for the… Read more

Katalin Puskas Khetani is an architect and independent researcher from Hungary, currently based in Kuala Lumpur.She researches history of architecture and the paths to sustainable architecture. In her 2020 essay on the Quest for the Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture in the Digital Age, she… Read more

Alexis G. J. S. Sanderson (b. 1948) is an indologist and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford, where he was Chair of Eastern Religions and Ethics until his retirement in 2015.A scholar of Sanskrit and Indian religions, he specializes in Shaivism and esoteric Śaiva… Read more

Mick Shippen is a British-born travel photographer and writer who documents cultural topics across Southeast Asia. In 2005, while still a teacher and a potter in his spare time, he published The Traditional Ceramics of Southeast Asia. In 2016, with writer Tessa Bunney, he started to document… Read more

Pierre-Yves Manguin (b. 1945) is a maritime archaeologist and historian, Professor Emeritus at Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, a specialist in Funan and Srivijaya civilizations as part of of his focus on the history of the maritime façade of pre-modern Southeast Asia, with a particular emphasis… Read more

The Venerable Nyanatiloka (19 Feb. 1878, Wiesbaden, Germany – 28 May 1957, Colombo, Ceylon [Sri Lanka]), born as Anton Walther Florus Gueth, was one of the earliest Westerners in modern times to become a Bhikkhu, a fully ordained Buddhist monk. Known as Nyanatiloka Mahathera (a Sanskrit and Pali… Read more

A leader in the field of Southeast Asian archaeology, Prof. Ian Carvel Glover (24 Apr. 1934, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire, England - 23 Apr. 2018, Catania, Sicily) was a pioneer archaelogist and educator.He joined the Institute of Archaeology at UCL, London, and retired in 1996 as Reader in the… Read more

Pamela Gutman (1944- 31 March 2015) was an Australian researcher, a pioneering art historian specialized in Burmese art and a consultant on national policy on immigration and multiculturalism.In 1972, she got permission to undertake research in Burma (now Myanmar) for her PhD thesis “Ancient… 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 Devangana Desai (1937, Bombay (now Mumbai)) is a prominent historian and researcher of early Indian art, in particular the iconic and narrative representations of female and male principles, whose essays on erotic art have been proven to be groundbreaking. Born in a Vaishnava family, she… Read more

Françoise Denoyelle is a French historian, professor and photography curator. After her doctoral thesis in 1991 (Le marché et les usages de la photographie à Paris pendant l’entre-deux-guerres), she taught at the School of Photography Louis-Lumière, and coordinated the collective of photographers… Read more

René Grousset (5 Sep 1885, Aubais, Gard, France  – 12 Sep 1952, Paris, France) was a French historian, curator of both the Cernuschi and Guimet Museums in Paris, a member of the Académie française and the author of numerous works on Asia and Asian art, as well as his two more commented books,… Read more

Alexandra Denes is a socio-cultural anthropologist specializing in heritage issues in Southeast Asia based in Thailand for over two decades, a Senior Research Associate and the Director of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museums Field School, the Culture and Rights Project, and the Visual… Read more

Prof. Daniel George Edward Hall (17 Nov. 1891, Hertfordshire, England - 12 Oct. 1979, Hitchin, UK) was a British historian, writer, emeritus professor of University of London, visiting professor at Cornell University (USA), a specialist of the history of Burma [Myanmar], who expanded his research… Read more