Project Staff

Un Kheang (CAS/NIU)
In-Country Coordinator Cambodia
Telephone	+001 815 753-1771
Fax	+001 815 753-1776
E-mail	kun1@niu.edu
Kheang Un is currently Assistant Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and adjunct Professor of Political Science and at Northern Illinois University. He also serves as research advisor to the Cambodia Development Resource Institute and a Board Member of Build Cambodia, a US based non-profitable organization dedicating to assisting Cambodia, and an affiliate with the Center for Advanced Studies, Cambodia. Dr. Un grew up and was educated in Cambodia before he left the country for higher education in the United States in 1992, when the country was reopened after decades of isolation from the international community. With educational funding from the Social Science Research Council, the East-West Center, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Department of Education Foreign and Areas Studies Fellowship, and University of Hawaii and Northern Illinois scholarship and assistantships, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics with distinction from the University of Hawaii, a Master of Arts in Political Science and Southeast Asian Studies in 1999 and Doctorate Degree in Political Science and Southeast Asian Studies from Northern Illinois University in 2004. Although based in the United States, Dr. Un has spent considerable of time conducting research and working in Cambodia including interning at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Kingdom of Cambodia in the summer of 1997. Dr. Un has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the Department for International Development, the Cambodia Development Resource Institute, and the State Department of the United States of America. Dr. Un’s research interests are democracy, human rights, and non-governmental organizations and political economy.