Born in 1973, Michael S. Falser is a professor and researcher in Art History at Heidelberg University, and recently visiting professor at Paris-Sorbonne University. Read more

With Christian Lauersen, co-founder and co-editor of Library Planet, a crowdsourced global resources for libraries around the world. Marie Eiriksson is a member of the IFLA committee. Read more

Daughter of sinologist Georges Maspero (her mother was Cécile Sophie Maspero nee Seyrig), grand-daughter of archeologist and explorer Gaston Maspero (1872-1942), Éveline Porée-Maspero (20 Apr. 1906, Cholon, Cochinchina - 12 July 1991, Saint-Tropez, France) was an ethnoligist and researcher with… Read more

Colonial engineer and amateur photographer Jules Agostini (1859, Arbarella, Corsica -1930, Nice, France) has traveled extensively in the Far East, including Cambodia.His fame as a photographer came to the headlines when unknown photos of French painter Paul Gaugin and some of his Tahitian models… Read more

Film director with Arte. Read more

Solang (b. Tuk Meas, Cambodia) and Beling (b. Hunan, China) Uk are the authors of the first translation of Zhou Daguan's account on Angkor in the 13th century sourced from Chinese and Khmer versions of this essential testimony about the Angkorian power at its peak, before the Siamese and Cham… Read more

Jean Boisselier (26 Aug 1912, Paris - 26 Feb. 1996, Paris), son of the French military visual artist Henri Boisselier, was a leading specialist in Khmer plastic arts. Curator of Phnom Penh National Museum, he was a member of EFEO (École française d'Extrême-Orient) until 1955, and worked in Angkor… Read more

A French journalist specialized in art history, Maxime Prodromidès came to research and write a great saga of the rediscovery of Angkor (Angkor, Chronique d'une renaissance, 1997) after contributing as a researcher to the documentary film 'Le secret des temples d'Angkor'. The angle chosen by… Read more

Director of the Musée Guimet (MNAAG) Photo Collection, Jérome Ghesquière is the Head of the Photo Archive Department at the renowned Parisian museum since 1989. Read more

Étienne François Aymonier (26 Feb 1844, Le Chatelard, France – 21 Jan 1929, Paris), French naval officer, colonial administrator, linguist and explorer, a "field Orientalist" and the first scientist to extensively survey the ruins and inscriptions of the Khmer empire in today's Cambodia, Thailand,… Read more

South East Asia correspondent with the British daily newspaper The Independent. Read more

Khmer-American free-lance researcher, photographer and "independent spirit", Phalika Ngin has extensively studied the "Royal Triad" formed by King Jayavarman VII and his two successive wives, Queen Jayarajadevi and Queen Indradevi. Read more

Shivani Kapoor is an independent researcher and a professor at Benaras Hindu University, Mumbai, India, specializing in archaeology and history of Southeast Asia.In 2015, Ms. Kapoor taught a course on 'Understanding Southeast Asia in the Light of Marine Archaeology'. Her research focuses on the… Read more

John Burgess (1951, North Carolina, USA) is an American writer and former reporter who first visited Cambodia in 1969, in his teen years. The son of a diplomatic family, he lived in India, Indonesia, and Thailand as a child. A former Washington Post foreign correspondent in Southeast Asia, he is… Read more

Professor in the School of Psychology and Psychiatry at Monash University and Emeritus Professor at Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia, Maurice Eisenbruch has extensively studied the Khmer Rouge regime from a psychological angle, as "a case of autogenocide". Read more

Dr Chen Chanratana ចិន្ត ច័ន្ទរតនា (b. 9 Apr. 1980, Phnom Penh) is the founder and president of the Kerdomnel Khmer Foundation, a professor at the Faculty of Archeology, Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, and a producer producer of educational and cultural programs for Southeast Asia… Read more

Course Director at Benaras Hindu University, Mumbai, Swati Chemburkar studies the interconnection between Khmer arts and Indian civilization.An architect and historian, she teaches Southeast Asia art history at the Jnanapravaha Institute in Mumbai. Swati Chemburkar has done several field researches… Read more

Frank Vincent Jr. (1847, Brooklyn, NY -1916, New York, USA) was an American explorer, businessman and art collector.The first American citizen to publish a detailed account on Angkor while he was a guest at the court of the King of Siam, left his important collection of Indo-Chinese art to the New… Read more

Victor Goloubew (Виктор Викторович Голубев, 1878, Saint-Petersburg, Russia - 1945, Hanoi, Vietnam) was a researcher with EFEO for many years, and the first archeologist to extensively use aerial photography to survey Angkor territory in the 1920s.A son of Russian aristocrats, he studied… Read more