Email: C.Hughes3@bradford.ac.uk

Prof Caroline Hughes has been conducting research on the contemporary political economy of Cambodia since 1994. She has a long-standing relationship as an external advisor to the Cambodia Development Resource Institute, and visits the country regularly. She is the author of The Political Economy of Cambodia’s Transition, 1991-2001 (London: Routledge, 2003) and Dependent Communities: Aid and Politics in Cambodia and East Timor (Ithaca: Cornell SEAP, 2009) and the co-editor of Cambodia’s Economic Transformation (Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2011). She has produced consultancy reports for DFID, SIDA and the World Bank, most recently in 2016.

Email: d.roberts@lboro.ac.uk

Dr David Roberts’s knowledge of Cambodia derives from his undergraduate study of international politics of Cambodia which created the refugee situation on the Thai-Cambodian border. His PhD research examined Cambodian political culture and social resistance to and adoption of UN and liberal interventionism. He has published a monograph and many scholarly articles, interviewed various elites and conducted hundreds of interviews of Cambodian people on the subject of refugees and internally-displaced people. Dr Roberts lectures at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and for the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, which trains UN and State diplomats and military officers. He has been visiting and living in the country almost continuously since 1991, including during the war.

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Email: jkurlant@hotmail.com

Joshua Kurlantzick is Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he studies Asian politics, rights, and economics. He also has done extensive work on asylum cases for nationals from Vietnam, Myanmar, the Philippines, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand, China, Indonesia, and other Northeast, Southeast and South Asian nations. His work has included analyses of the political environment, judiciary, and state of political and civil rights in many South, Southeast, and Northeast Asian countries, as well as assessments of criminal syndicates and trafficking in these states. He has worked with more than ten U.K. firms and multiple U.S. firms on nearly thirty asylum cases. He is the author of five books on Southeast Asian politics, institutions, rights, and economics. Kurlantzick also has been a Visiting Scholar in the China program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Fellow at the Pacific Council on International Policy, a Columnist for Time, a Special Correspondent for The New Republic, an Asian Correspondent for The Economist, and a Contributing Writer for Mother Jones, among other positions. He has twenty years of experience covering events in Asia, and writing about rights issues in Asia, for a range of periodicals including The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, the London Review of Books, The Washington Monthly, The Washington Quarterly,  and Foreign Policy, among others.

Email: karencoatesauthor@gmail.com

Karen Coates is an author, journalist and media trainer with more than 20 years of reporting experience in Southeast Asia. She is co-editor/producer on the forthcoming film, ETERNAL HARVEST, which documents the lasting effects of the US bombing campaign in Laos. The film is a follow-up to the book Eternal Harvest: The Legacy of American Bombs in Laos, which was a finalist for the Investigative Reporters & Editors Book Award. Her book Cambodia Now: Life in the Wake of War, winner of the August Derleth Award, is an examination of Cambodian life in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge. She also authored the award-winning travel book This Way More Better: Stories and Photos from Asia’s Back Roads. Coates is a fellow with the International Women’s Media Foundation, contributing editor for Archaeology Magazine, former Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism, and former senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism (which closed in 2018). Her multimedia journalism has appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Christian Science Monitor, Pacific Standard, NPR, and many others. Her work in Southeast Asia began in 1996, through a graduate exchange program with Vietnam National University in Hanoi. In 1998-99, Coates worked as a reporter and editor for The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh. She routinely returns to the region to report on health, environment and social justice.