A self-made art collector and a Portuguese writer who has explored Oriental mysticism and esoterism, Francisco Capelo (1955, Lisbon) founded in 2001 the Museu da Marioneta (Museum of Puppetry) in the Convent of Bernardas, a rich collection of Asian and African masks and theater puppets, and one… Read more

Ellen Hsieh 謝艾倫 is an Assistant Professor at National Tsing Hua University, Institute of Anthropology (Taiwan) specialized in History of maritime trade and Southeast Asia.A research associate to the National Museum of the Philippines, her PhD dissertation considered Early Spanish Colonialism in… Read more

David Olyphant King (1828, Newport, Rhode Island, USA - 1862?, American Civil War in Virginia), D.0. King, was an American businessman and traveler who gave a published account of Angkor and the Cambodian royal court at Oudong in 1859. D.O. King -- he was given the name of a close associate to his… Read more

HE Kong Som Ol គង់ សំអុល (b. 1 Nov 1936) is a Cambodian dignitary who has served in several capacities, in particular as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Royal Palace (since 1998).He was Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from 1986 to 1989, and was elected to represent Kampong… Read more

Heidrun Schenk is a researcher with the German Archaeological Institute (Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (DAI)), involved in a South India and transmaritime pottery research projected associating the Archaeological Department of Sri Lanka and the Commission for Archaeology of Non-European… Read more

Chiara Policardi is a post-doctoral researcher at Università degli Studi di Milano - State University of Milan (Italy), Dipartimento di Studi letterari, filologici e linguistici, specializing in Indian and Buddhist philosophy and esoterism, in particular the representation and role of women in… Read more

Isabelle Massieu (born Bauche, 3 Apr. 1844, Paris - 7 Oct. 1932, Paris-Suresnes) was a French traveler, writer and photographer, who was one of the first Western women to visit and write about Angkor (in 1896), the first French woman to travel to Nepal and Laos, and an outstanding observer of Asian… Read more

Lucretia Stewart (1952, Singapore) is a journalist and travel writer who visited Cambodia in 1990.After spending much of her early life in Singapore and China as the daughter of a diplomat, she started writing for the New Review, Brides magazine, the Evening Standard, Harpers & Queen, and… Read more

British architect and conservationist John Sanday has been associated to many Global Heritage Fund projects, especially in Nepal and Cambodia. He became Asia Field Director for the GHF in 2007. Read more

Seng Sonetra was Acting Dean and Lecturer of the Department of Archaeology, Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh before undertaking the MA programme in History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS University of London in 2018-19. She has conducted several archaeological excavations of prehistoric… Read more

Frédéric Gas-Faucher (1876, Marseille, France - 25 Feb. 1939, Marseille) was a French educator traveler whose relation of Cambodia in the 1910s, En sampan sur les lacs d'Angkor et du Cambodge (1922), has been consistently quoted and referred to. From his book, we know that his interest for Cambodia… Read more

Laurie Woolever is an American writer and editor, and spent nearly a decade assisting Anthony Bourdain, with whom she coauthored the cookbook Appetites in 2016. She has written about food and travel for the New York Times, GQ, Food & Wine, Lucky Peach, Saveur, Dissent, Roads & Kingdoms, and… Read more

Lin Li-kouang 林藜光 (1902, Xiamen (Amoy), Fujian Province, China – 29 Apr 1945, St Hilaire du Touvet, Isere, France) was a Buddhologist researcher who worked in France with the most distinguished Sanskritists, Sinologists and Indologists, including Paul Demiéville (1894-1979) when he was based in… Read more

Dr. Chandramani Singh चंद्रमणि सिंह (5 Apr. 1940, Banaras (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India - 15 May 2022, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India) was an Indian art historian, textile expert, writer and a museum archivist based in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Associated with Banaras Hindu University and Prakrit Bahrti… 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

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

Pierre Mathieu Théodore Guesde (9 May 1870, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, French Caribbean=) - 1955) was a French colonial administrator from 1896 to 1914, Resident-superieur of Indochina for a few months in 1914, and Commissioner for Indochina at the 1922 (initially scheduled for 1916) Marseille… Read more

Born in Ireland, active in Celtic studies, Aedeen Cremin moved to Australia in the 1970s where she lectured in architecture at University of Sydney and Canberra. With degrees from Universities of Ireland, Strasbourg and Sydney, she specialized in landscape archaeology, especially in North Portugal… Read more

An independent researcher, Asger Mollerup (12 Aug 1949, Hobro, Denmark) specializes in ethno-linguistics, Khmer temples history and archaeo-astronomy, the discipline studying the way ancient cultures related to celestial events. He has extensively studied hundreds of Khmer temples in Northern… Read more

A specialist in Southeast Asian Buddhism, anthropologist and linguist François Bizot (1940, Nancy) joined the Angkor Conservation Office in 1965, in charge of the topography of ancient monuments under J. Filliozat´s supervision. His interest in Khmer religion led him to develop scriptural and field… Read more