Rai Bahadur [honorific title] Valaiyattur Venkayya (1 July 1864, Valaiyattur, Madras Presidency – 21 Nov.1912, Mambalam, Chingleput District, British India) was an Indian epigraphist and historian specialized in South Indian languages and scripts, who particularly studied the origins of the Pallava… Read more

Heng Samrin ហេង សំរិន [b. 25 May 1934, Anlong Chrey Village, Ponhea Kraek District, Kampong Cham Province] is a Cambodian politician, the longest-serving statesman since after the ousting of the Khmer Rouge, to which he contributed by leading the anti-Khmer Rouge resistance inside Cambodia and in… Read more

Xenia Zarina born June Zimmerman (1903, Wisconsin, USA – August 15, 1967, Mexico City) was an American dancer and dance instructor who studied in depth the classic dances of Southeast Asia, India and Japan.The daughter of Russian-born emigres whose father, Oliver Brunner Zimmerman, was a professor… Read more

B. [for Barkur] Narasimhaiah (b. 1938, Karnataka State, India) was a field archeologist, a member of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) from 1964 to 1996, when he retired, and the head of the Indian Restoration Mission in Angkor, First Phase, from 1986 to 1993. With a MD in Indology from… Read more

Non Dara is a Cambodian linguist, Associate Professor at Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, Paris) since 2021, specializing in Khmer language and linguistic teaching.With a BA in French literature and… Read more

Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, known as Louis Frédéric or Louis-Frédéric (17 Dec. 1923, Paris - 24 Nov. 1996, Quincy-sous-Sénart, France) was a French scholar, art historian, a prolific writer and photographer who was particularly interested in India, Japan and Southeast Asia.After living in North… Read more

Dr. Bachchan Kumar is an Indian researcher specializing in art, history and culture of South-East Asia, in charge of the South-East Asian Studies Department, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Delhi, from the 1990s to the 2020s.A recipient of the Indian Archaeological Society's Prof. A. K.… Read more

Ann Louise Kumar is an Australian scholar in Indonesian and Javanese studies, a former Dean of the Faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian National University (ANU), Emeritus Professor from 1971 to 2009, who also researched the prehistory of Japan, the impact of genetics on global prehistory and… Read more

H.E. Chea Chanto ជា ចាន់តូ (9 Oct. 1951, Kompong Thom Province - 25 Oct. 2024, Phnom Penh) was an economic and social planner who played a key role in reviving Cambodia’s financial and banking system in the post-Khmer Rouge era as the Minister of Planning from 1986 to 1994, and served as the… Read more

Jean Daniel Gardère (b. 1942) is a senior French civil servant and economic advisor to the Ministry of Finance who, later in life, became a writer, museologist, and exhibition designer specializing in the economic and monetary history of Cambodia. He visited Cambodia for the first time in 1968, at… Read more

Walter Koditek is (b. 30 Nov. 1964, Emmerich, Germany) is a German urban planner, author and photographer who has been working and living in Asia since 2006, settling in Siem Reap in 2024 after spending the years 2014-2023 in Hong Kong.After graduating at Technical University Berlin, Walter Koditek… Read more

Nguyễn Thế Anh (1 June 1936, Thakhek, Laos - 19 March 2023, Toulouse, France) was a Vietnamese historian specializing in modern history of Vietnam - in particular the Nguyễn dynasty - and its relations with neighboring countries. Certified professor of history in 1963, Nguyễn Thế Anh served as… Read more

Adrian Vickers is an Australian author, historian and professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Sydney specializing in Indonesian language and cultural history, in particular Gambuh dance traditions, Panji stories, Balinese art, as well as historiography, colonialism studies and… Read more

Elizabeth Becker (b. 28 Oct. 1947) is an American author, a former journalist who has covered international affairs since 1973 when she became a stringer for the Far Eastern Economic Review and later The Washington Post and The New York Times in Phnom Penh as one of the few women reporters in the… Read more

Henri Turot (24 Feb. 1865, Bar-sur-Aube, France - 3 June 1920, Paris 16) was a French journalist and photographer who traveled across Southeast Asia - including Phnom Penh and Angkor - and South China in 1899, and co-founded in 1904 a small news agency, L'Agence Radio, taken over by Havas Agency in… Read more

Arthur Llewellyn Basham (24 May 1914, Loughton, England, – 27 January 1986, Calcutta [mod. Kolkata], India) was a British historian, Indologist, author, and a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London in the 1950s and the 1960s where he taught several future noted… Read more

John Kremers Whitmore (1940 - Nov. 2020) was an American scholar credited as the pioneer of Vietnamese studies in the US starting from the 1960s, as he explored Vietnamese pre-modern and modern history, mentored new generations of American researchers in Southeast Asian history and expanded his… Read more

Hiroaki Sato [Sato Hiroaki] 佐藤 紘彰  (b. 1942, Taiwan) is a Japanese poet and translator who has been living in New York since 1968, the president of the Haiku Society of America from 1979 to 1981.Educated at Doshisha University, Kyoto, after his family fled back to Japan at the end of WWII, and in… Read more

Robert Joseph 'Bob' Casey (14 March 1890, Beresford, South Dakota, USA – 5 Dec. 1962, Evanston, Illinois, USA) was a decorated combat veteran and Chicago-based newspaper correspondent and columnist who covered both World War I and II in Europe, Africa and the Pacific, a born story-teller of Irish… Read more

Sumet Jumsai na Ayudhya สุเมธ ชุมสาย ณ อยุธยา 书梅 春塞 (b. 30 March1939, Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai architect, visual artist and author, National Artist of Thailand in 1998, the designer of some 200 contemporary buildings in Thailand including the headquarters of the Bank of Asia (The Robot… Read more