Dr. Dawn F. Rooney is an art historian and independent scholar specialising in Southeast Asia. She is the author of nine books and numerous articles on Asian art, including Angkor: An Introduction to the Temples (1994), Angkor Observed (2001) and The Beauty of Fired Clay: Ceramics of Cambodia,… Read more

John McDermott's love for Asia began in the early 1990s when he moved to Thailand from the US to join the staff of a magazine based in Bangkok as chief photographer. During his travels on assignments, McDermott developed a strong personal interest in the many cultural heritage sites and ancient… Read more

Senior Lecturer at the University of New England, NSW, Australia, Alfonso van der Kraan is the author of several historic monographs taking place in Cambodia and Indonesia. Read more

Claude Jacques (1929, Marboz, France -2018) was a French epigraphist, archaeologist and researcher, the head of EPHE (IVe section) and special advisor to UNESCO for Angkor. For his effort toward the recognition of Angkor monuments as part of UNESCO World Cultural Heritage, King Norodom Sihamoni… Read more

Jim Mizerski (d. 2020) was an American independent researcher, writer and translator who resided in Cambodia in the years 2000s, where he undertook historical research and humanitarian work, in particular with Friends International. After working as a naval officer and an electrical engineer, Jim… Read more

Pierre Loti [born Louis-Marie-Julien Viaud, "Pierre" being a first name suggested by famous actress Sarah Bernhardt and "Loti" the name of an island flower he found in Tahiti] (14 Jan. 1850, Rochefort, France - 10 June, 1923, Hendaye, France) was a French Navy officer, novelist, travel writer,… Read more

Author of more than sixty books on archaeology and Ancient Khmer civilization research, Dr. Michel Tranet បណ្ឌិត មីសែល ត្រាណេ (b.1954, Phnom Penh) served as a secretary of state at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts in the 1990s, ultimately resigning to protest the lack of involvement of… Read more

Saveros Pou [ពៅ សាវរស Pou Saveros in Khmer, Saveros Lewitz in the 1970s-1980s] (24 Aug. 1929, Phnom Penh- 25 May 2020, France) was a French linguist of Cambodian origin. A retired research director of the CNRS in Paris, a specialist of the Khmer language and civilization, she carried out extensive… Read more

HM Norodom Sihanouk នរោត្តម សីហនុ (31 October 1922, Phnom Penh, Cambodia – 15 October 2012, Beijing, China) was the King of Cambodia from 1941 to 1955 and from 1993 to 2004. Affectionately known to the Cambodian people as Samdech Euv (សម្តេចឪ, Father Prince), he masterminded the independence from… Read more

Ambassador Julio Armando Jeldres (b. 1 Dec. 1950, Santiago de Chile) was a teenager in faraway Chile when, in 1967, he wrote directly to the King Palace of Cambodia wanting to know more about the fascinating Kingdom at the other end of the world. An epistolary relationship started, until the young… Read more

David Porter Chandler (b. 1933, New York City, USA) is an American historian and academic noted for his work on Cambodia's modern history - in particular French colonialism's impact on the Kingdom and later the 1970s-1980s civil war - with a deep connection to Cambodian oral and written… Read more