Robert Dalet was an archaeologist, photographer and explorer who discovered numerous artefacts dating from the pre-Angkorean and classical periods across Cambodia in the 1930s and 1950s. Briefly mentioned as an EFEO 'correspondant bénévole' (unpaid correspondent) by Louis Malleret (and registered… Read more

Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, known as Père (Abbot) Amiot or Amyot and as 錢德明 (Qian De-Ming) as a mandarin (1 Feb. 1718, Toulon, France - 9 Oct. 1793, Beijing) was a French Jesuit missionary during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, and studied Chinese literature, astronomy, music, botany, geography,… Read more

James Fergusson (22 Jan. 1808, Ayr, Scotland - 9 Jan. 1886, London, Great Britain) was a Scottish businessman and planter in India, and a self-taught architect whose fascination with the "True [or Pure, or Natural] Style" in Indian arts led him to write his monumental History of Indian and Eastern… Read more

William Marsden (16 November 1754, Verval, County Wicklow – 6 October 1836, London) was an Irish orientalist, numismatist, and linguist who served as First Secretary to the Admiralty during years of conflict with France, and commented The Travels of Marco Polo (1818), with annotations that brought… Read more

Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (5 Sep. 1788, Paris - 2 June 1832, Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry, Seine-et-Marne [of cholera]), a pioneer in French sinological studies who held the first chair of Chinese studies at Collège de France in 1814, takes a significant place in Khmer studies as the first Western… 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

Emeritus professor of Architecture (School of Creative Science and Engineering) at Waseda University (Tokyo), Takeshi Nakagawa 中川 武 (b. 1944, Toyama Prefecture, Japan) is a researcher in comparative archaeological history and the Director of the Japanese Government Team for Safeguarding Angkor… Read more

So Sokuntheary is a Cambodian Doctor in Architecture specialized in Architectural Preservation.A graduate from Waseda University, she is actively developing in Cambodia the activities of the Shimoda Laboratory of Architectural Heritage, a World Heritage Program sponsored by the Graduate School of… Read more

Hiroki Hattori 服部博紀 is a graduate student at Waseda University, Tokyo. Read more

Shinichi Nishimoto, a professor at Nippon Institute of Technology, is an architect and archaeologist who worked extensively in Cambodia and Egypt.With a Master of Engineering at University of Tsukuba, he contributed to several studies on structural design and water management at the Angkor Thom and… Read more

Ellen Hsieh 謝艾倫 is an Assistant Professor at National Tsing Hua University, Institute of Anthropology (Taiwan) specialized in History of maritime trade and Southeast Asia.A research associate to the National Museum of the Philippines, her PhD dissertation considered Early Spanish Colonialism in… Read more

Archaeologist Bruno Bruguier (1952, Toulouse) is the author of the series Guides archéologiques du Cambodge (Archaeological Guidebooks of Cambodia), an exhaustive description of the archaelogical sites around the country in six volumes he wrote with his wife, Juliette Lacroix. His doctoral thesis… Read more

Director of the PhD program at Mahidol University, College of Religious Studies (Thailand), Julia Estève studied History of Religions at the École pratique des Hautes Études in Paris and Philosophy at Sorbonne University. Her research focuses on the different components of the pre-modern Khmer… Read more

A graduate student at EHESS Paris and University of Strasbourg, a PhD candidate, Chloé Chollet is a member of the DHARMA Project and a researcher in Khmer epigraphy with the CIK (Corpus des Inscriptions Khmeres). Read more

Yang Minkang 杨民康 (1955) is a Chinese ethnomusicologist specializing in minority musical forms (he belongs himself to the Bai 白族 East Asian ethnic group native to the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province, one of the 56 ethnic minorities officially recognized by China). Researcher and… Read more

Gérard Bley is a free-lance photographer and the author of Angkor, cité vivante (2005). Read more

Prof. Fujioka Michio 藤岡通夫 (31 Jul. 1908, Tokyo - 19 Nov. 1988, Tokyo) was an eminent Japanese architect and art historian who studied the architecture of the Khmer temples. Author of a reference book on Japanese Castles, as well as essays on Japanese Residences and Gardens (恒成一訓写真), Castles and… Read more

Padmashree Ranjana Gauhar is a world-renowned Odissi (Indian classical style) dancer and choreographer who authored the book Odissi, Dance of the Divine. She learnt her art from Guru Mayadhar Raut, who gave classical status to this style originating from Odisha (formerly Orissa). A recipient of the… Read more

Fukuoka Grand Prize 1997 awardee, Chheng Phon (6 Mar. 1930, Kompong Cham - 22 Dec. 2016, Takhmao) was a prominent Cambodian dramatist and professor of history of art. After the civil war, he was a leading force in the restoration of Khmer culture and arts, particularly in his capacity of Minister… Read more

Marie-Alexandrine Martin (1932-2013), affectuously nicknamed Mam, was a botanist and ethnologist who, as a CNRS researcher (and later Director of the CNRS Research Center), conducted ethnobotanical, ethnolinguistic and sociological fieldword across Cambodia in the 1960s and 1970s. Between 1965 and… Read more