Researcher, linguist and historian, a teaching fellow at INALCO (Paris) and the University of Cologne (Germany), Suppya Hélene Nut [also Hélène Suppya Bru-Nut] (1960, Phnom Penh) is the founder of the Khmer Dance Project in collaboration with the Center for Khmer Studies, the Anne Hendricks Bass… Read more

Melbourne-based film director and producer Tim Pek has worked extensively in Cambodia. Read more

Coordinator for Apsara Authority Guidelines. Read more

Associate Professor at the UIC-Department of Anthropology (Chicago, USA), researcher at the Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney, Australia, Mitch Hendrickson is a landscape archeologist active on various Angkorean sites. He is the Director of Industries of Angkor Project, Co-Director of… Read more

Documentary and Fine Art Photographer. Read more

Joshua Ives Hammer (New York City, 1957) is an American journalist and foreign freelance correspondent. He worked many years with Newsweek magazine, and his articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Smithsonian, among other publications. Read more

A respected anthropologist based in Cambodia since the 1990s, Fabienne Luco studies oral traditions, mythology and social structures in modern Cambodia, retracing them up to the Khmer Antiquity. Her PhD essay is a thorougful yet lively analyzis of the spiritual and social dimensions of the Khmer… Read more

Charya Burt is a master dancer; choreographer, vocalist and teacher of Classical Cambodian Dance, the founding artistic director of Charya Burt Cambodian Dance, a dance ensemble based in San Francisco North Bay, California, USA.Charya Burt's training began shortly after the Khmer Rouge genocide… Read more

Born in Goteborg (Sweden), Anders Jiras was a successful commercial photographer in his hometown when he was invited to cover a South East Asian Dance Festival in Singapore, in the 2000s. After extensively traveling through the region, he decided to focus on Cambodia and settle in the Kingdom of… Read more

The Nginn Karet Foundation for Cambodia (NKFC) is a private initiative set since 2001 to empower village people in Cambodia with the knowledge and resources to secure their basic needs through a partnership programme for a sustainable future, and to help younger generations of villagers in… Read more

Louis Marie Joseph Delaporte (11 Jan. 1842, Loches, France- 3 May 1925, Paris) was a French Navy officer, a drawing artist, cartographer and explorer who developed an interest in Cambodia and Khmer art after joining Doudart de Lagree's Mission in 1866-1867, before organizing his own two… Read more

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