After becoming a Doctor in Indian Studies at Université Paris III -- his thesis dealt with the Religious and Secular Organization of the Khmer Temples between the 7th and 13th centuries --, Dominique Soutif joined the EFEO Siem Reap Branch in 2009, which he supervised until 2019. An… Read more

Senior lecturer in musicology at the Department of Music and Art at Linnæus University in Växjö (Sweden), Martin Knust studied musicology, theology and philosophy in Greifswald, Berlin and Dresden. Since 2007, he has held appointments and lectureships at the E.-M.-Arndt-University in Greifswald,… Read more

A specialist in modern history, Grégory Mikaelian (1976-) is a CNRS researcher since 2008. He made his PhD thesis at Paris IV Sorbonne into a seminal book, La Royauté d’Oudong, Réforme des institutions et crise du pouvoir dans le royaume khmer du XVIIeme siècle, Paris, 2009) and published many… Read more

Award-winning photographer La Mo (Ly Min) (24 Apr 1977, Siem Reap) is known for his photo-essays on wildlife, nature and people in Cambodia. He excels at capturing the magical and the sacred in daily life, with a keen eye on religious and folk celebrations. An ambassador for FujifilmX, he… Read more

Soeum Hoeung (1989, Siem Reap Province) was encouraged to take photography as more than a hobby by friends already familiar with the medium. In love with the Cambodian countryside, with a particular fondness for horses, she started with friend Sophon a full tour of the country on their motorbikes,… Read more

Xia Nai (夏鼐, 1910, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China – 19 June 1985) was an eminent Chinese archaeologist, celebrated on the international academic scene as a member of the British Academy (1974), the Swedish Royal Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities (1983), the U.S. Academy of Sciences… 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

French-Khmer poetess and novelist Makhali-Phal (Nelly-Pierrette Guesde (21 Sep. 1898, Phnom Penh - 15 Nov. 1965, Pau, France) was brought to France in 1906 with the Cambodian Royal Court during the official visit to Exposition Universelle de Marseille, yet wrote almost exclusively about the… Read more

Specialized in pre-Thai polities, archeologist and art historian Pierre Dupont (1908, Paris -1955, Bangkok) has particularly studied the Mon kingdom of Dvaravati which predated the Sukhothai, Chiang Mai or Ayutthaya kingdoms that thrieve between the 13th and the 15 centuries. First at École du… Read more

Étienne Lunet de Lajonquière (or La Jonquière) (8 Aug 1861, Rodez, France - 23 Dec 1933, Saint-Sigismond, France) was a French Naval Infantry officer, explorer and geographer, author of the first comprehensive Atlas Archéologique de l'Indochine (1901) and, ten years later, the first Inventory of… Read more

Ethnologist Jacques Népote (14 Jan 1943, St-Nazaire d'Aude, France - 26 Jan 2006, Roissy) discovered Cambodia when he was sent to Battambang as a volunteer for the French Cultural Cooperation Service. Three years later, he came back all the way from France by car and started a prolific academic and… Read more

Charles Duroiselle (1871-1951) was a French-born Burmese historian and archaeologist, noted Pali scholar and epigrapher, who published monographs on Mandalay Palace and other related Burmese subjects. Throughout his career, he excavated over 120 monuments around Burma (now Myanmar).A member of the… Read more

Philippe Stern (11 April 1895 – 4 April 1979) was a historian of art, professor at École du Louvre, musicologist, curator of the Trocadéro Indochinese Museum and, after World War II, director of the Musée Guimet (from 1954 until 1965). During the anti-Jewish persecutions in France, he stayed hidden… Read more

Countess Gilberte de Coral-Rémusat (17 Dec. 1903, Paris - 19 Oct.1943, Lausanne, Switzerland) was an independent archaeologist and art historian who explored Indochina first in 1928-1929, part of a round-the-world trip, then in 1935-1937 as a correspondent for EFEO and Musée… Read more

Thérèse Le Prat [born Cahen] (19 March 1895, Pantin, France - 6 March 1966, Neuilly sur Seine) was a renowned photographer who worked on Cambodia, Tonkin and Annam (Vietnam) during several decades.When she divorced French publisher Guillaume Le Prat in the early 1930s, he offered her a Rolleiflex… Read more

Indian Art historian Claudine Bautze-Picron has studied artworks in Bihar, West Bengal, Bangladesh, and Southeast Asia, focusing on Buddhist iconography.A researcher with CNRS (France), she has authored books book on mural carvings and paintings at Pagan (Burma/Myanmar), and The Bejewelled Buddha,… Read more

Distinguished linguist and language historian, Ginette Martini (also Ginette Martini-Terral or Terral-Martini) extensively studied Khmer scriptures and traditions. She was married to the linguist Francois Martini. Read more

Cambodian archaelogist and historian Lan Sunnary (22 Feb 1945, Kampot - 15 Jul 2014, Paris) co-founded the cultural association Pierres d'Angkor in the 1980s. After working with the Angkor Conservation Office until 1972, he took part in many archeological discoveries, including a statue of Vishnu… Read more

François Martini (1895, Can Tho, Vietnam - 1965, France) was a major linguist versed in Khmer, Mon, Sanskrit and Pali languages. Born from Corsican and Cambodian parents, he was severely wounded in action during World War I. Under Sylvain Lévi's and André Martinet's guidance, he studied Sanskrit… Read more

William J. Gedney (4 Apr 1915, Orchards, WA - 14 Nov 1999, Ann Arbor, MI, USA) was a linguist specialized in Southeast Asian languages, studying and documenting Thai and twenty-two more idioms. in 1947, he moved to Thailand and worked with some of the most important scholars in Thai literature and… Read more