Troy Dean Harris, ascetic-arts researcher and curator, is the founder of the Sritantra Project, under which name he has published several studies. He resides between Malabar and the Malaya peninsula. His primary research interests combine the comparative distribution and modification of ancient… Read more

Pia Conti is an independent researcher in Indic Ancient History, associated to SOAS University of London. She specializes in Tantric Buddhism, from the Indian peninsula to its variations across South East Asia.After graduating at University of Zurich and joining the English Department as a… Read more

Ang Choulean អាំង ជូលាន (1 Dec. 1949, Kompong Kleang, Cambodia) is a Cambodian independent ethnologist, a professor of historical anthropology and Old Khmer at the Royal University of Fine Arts, Faculty of Archaeology, and a former Director of the Department of Culture of APSARA Authority,… Read more

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

SEM Sara was a doctoral student at Phnom Penh Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA) in the 1960s. He went missing during the Khmer Rouge period. Read more

Researche at CERPP (Université Toulouse le Mirail) and IRSEA-CNRS (Marseille, France), Didier Bertrand has devoted three years of field work studying the practices of Cambodian mediums and kru (healers). An ethno-psychologist and a Doctor in Intercultural Psychology, Didier Bertrand has also… Read more

Art Historian at the University of Sydney, Gillian Green has authored several books on Khmer and South East Asian textiles, weaving and print techniques. She was an Honorary Associate in the Department of Art History and Film Studies at the University of Sydney and president of the Asian Arts… Read more

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

Sent to South East Asia as an enlisted private in the Foreign Legion ('Légion Étrangere'), Jean Narcisse Commaille (24 June 1868, Marseilles - 30 Apr. 1916, Siem Reap) became the First Conservateur (Curator) of Angkor Wat in July 1908 after joining the EFEO as a mere civil servant eight years… Read more

A leading specialist in Southeast Asian religious history, performing and visual arts, Solange Thierry née Bernard (1921, Mehun-sur-Yevre, France - 2009) was a Curator of Phnom Penh National Museum from 1947-1949. After graduating in Khmer and Siamese languages, she studied Sanskrit, Pali and… Read more

A heritage preservation professional, Senthilpavai Kasannian is Doctor in Archeological Conservation, University of Sydney.With a background in Architectural Heritage, Conservation, Cultural Heritage Management and GIS, he was worked many years in India and Australia in a diverse range of… Read more

Associate Researcher with CNRS (France), Ludivine Provost-Roche specializes in historical research on the end of the Angkorian period. Her PhD dissertation in 2010 is titled 'Les derniers siècles de l'époque angkorienne au Cambodge (env. 1220-env. 1500)' (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle).An art… Read more

Art historian Madeleine Giteau (1918, Nantes - 2005) was the Curator of Cambodia National Museum (then Musée Albert Sarrault) from 1956 until 1966. A member of École française d'Extrême Orient (EFEO) from 1956 until 1981, she taught Southeast Asian art and history at Sorbonne University until her… 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

Photographer Paisarn Piemmettawat has contributed to numerous books on Southeast Asian art and history, including Cambodia. He is currently Managing Director of River Books Publishing, Bangkok, Thailand. Read more

An indianist and renowned researcher in Indian and Khmer arts, Mireille Bénisti (1909-1993) completed her studies at École du Louvre under the guidance of Philippe Stern. She also studied Sanskrit and History of Art at EHESS and College de France. Joining the Centre national de la recherche… Read more

Photographer Laurent Weyl (b.1971, Strasbourg, France) has worked extensively in Asia, especially in Vietnam where he lived from 2011 until 2016. He specializes in social-ethnological reports, for instance on global refugee populations and ethnic minorities. A member of the Collectif Argos, he has… Read more

Dr. Scott Hawken is a lecturer in the Australian Graduate School of Urbanism, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. An urban designer, landscape architect and landscape archaeologist, Scott Hawken focuses his expertise in three thematic areas: Smart Cities (Planning and Design), Asian… Read more

Self-taught orientalist and ethnologist, ardent socialist converted to Georges Clémenceau's patriotic republicanism, founder of one of the richest collections of Khmer studies outside of Cambodia (in his French hometown of Alençon), Adhémard Leclère (12 May 1853, Alençon, France - 16 March 1917,… Read more

Head of research at the National Museum of Asian Arts (Musée Guimet) in Paris, Thierry Zéphir is also a professor at the École du Louvre, where he teaches courses on India and the countries of the Indianized world. Since 1991 he has regularly taught students at the Phnom Penh Faculty of… Read more