Historian and archaeologist Eric Bourdonneau (1973, Le Mans, France) has been working with EFEO in Cambodia since 1997.After defending his PhD thesis "Indianisation et formation de l'État en Asie du Sud-Est : retour sur trente ans d'historiographie. Matériaux pour l'étude du Cambodge ancien" in… Read more

A Doctor in Archaelogy and Environmental Sciences, Thonghlit Luangkhoth is the head of the Department of Heritage, Ministry of Information Culture and Tourism, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic.As an associate researcher with the University of Melbourne, Australia, he joined several… Read more

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Lu Shiyong 陆诗咏 is an artist and researcher based in New York City, NY, USA.After studying graphic design in Shanghai, China, she graduated from Ohio State University, USA, in 2019. She is currently a PhD candidate in Art History. Read more

Kweiku-Kyei Afrifa Yamoah is a hydrologist and climate researcher from Ghana.His PhD thesis in 2016 at Stockholm University, Sweden, dealt with the reconstruction of the South-East Asian hydro-climate using biomarkers and their hydrogen isotopic composition, in particular regarding Angkor.Dr.… Read more

Marie-Jean-Léon Lecoq, Baron d'Hervey de Juchereau, Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys (德理文) (6 May 1822, Paris – 2 Nov. 1892, Paris) was a French sinologist and the first Western researcher to translate in its entirety Ma Dualin's encyclopaedic work on the 'foreign peoples' of the Chinese area of… Read more

J.J. (Joseph Justus Zaddik) Belinfante (11 March 1821, Amsterdam - 2 Dec. 1882, Den Haag - The Hague) was a Dutch publicist, self-taught historian and journalist who contributed to the English publication of Henri Mouhot's notes, journal and letters related to Southeast Asia and Angkor.Born in an… Read more

許雲樵 Hsu Yun Tsiao (also Xu Yunqiao, 1905, Jiangsu Province, China – 17 Nov 1981, Singapore) was a scholar of Overseas Chinese and Southeast Asian history who migrated to Singapore in 1930, specializing in Malaysian studies. From 1933 to 1938, he taught in Thailand, where he met his wife (née Liu).… Read more

Philippe Gras (16 Apr. 1942, Paris - 2007, Paris) was a French freelance photographer who worked extensively in Angkor while he joined in the 1980s the shooting of Angkor, la gloire et l'oubli, a film directed by Pierre Philippe. As a conscript in Algeria, he photographed the country and its people… Read more

Nguyễn Thị Huýnh Phượng is a Vietnamese social science researcher specialized in the history and social dynamics of the communities of the Mekong Delta, and currently Director of the Mekong Institute of Science and Technology Application and Training. A lecturer at Can Tho University, she has been… Read more

A specialist in archeological laser scanning, Nina Hofer is a graduate of Vienna University, Department of Geography and Regional Research. In 2018, she co-directed the CALI (Cambodian Lidar Initiative) field season with Leng Vitou of the Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts. She wrote about… Read more

Assistant Professor and Director of the International Program at The Faculty of Architecture, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Sunon Palakavong Na Ayudhya has largely contributed to Archeological Heritage Conservation studies and programs in Thailand. Read more

Charles Louis Francis Thomson (13 Sep 1835, Algiers, 9 July 1898, Marseilles, France) was a French colonial administration high officer, Gouverneur de la Cochinchine from 18 Dec 1878, 'Plénipotentiaire de France en Annam et au Cambodge' from 8 March 1883, who wrestled out ouf of future King Norodom… Read more

Sanjeev Sanyal (27 Aug 1970, Kolkata, West Bengal, India) is an Indian economist and popular historian, author of several books on the history of India and Asia which have received laudative and dismissive reviews. A member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India since… Read more

Philip J. Coggan is an Australian independent researcher and journalist based in Cambodia who published two books about the Kingdom:  Spirit Worlds: Cambodia, the Buddha & the Naga (2016), and An Illustrated History of Cambodia (2019). A contributor to the Mekong Review and other Southeast… Read more

Matti Kummu is Associate professor at the Department of Built Environment, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, specializing in Hydrology, Geoinformatics (GIS), Climatology, Irrigation and Water Management, local scale challenges and opportunities on water-energy-food nexus, particularly in Southeast… Read more

Researcher, linguist and historian, a teaching fellow at INALCO (Paris) and the University of Cologne (Germany), Suppya Hélene Nut (1960, Phnom Penh) is the founder of the Khmer Dance Project in collaboration with the Center for Khmer Studies, the Anne Hendricks Bass Foundation and the Jerome… 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

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

George Groslier (4 Feb. 1887, Phnom Penh-16 June 1945, Phnom Penh), the first child with French citizenship born in modern Cambodia, artist, novelist, historian, archaeologist, ethnologist, architect, photographer, founder and curator of the National Museum of Cambodia, was the ultimate "Cambodian… Read more