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April 1, 2010: Mr. Heng Pheakdey PhD researcher
Mr. Pheakdey Heng joined the “Competing Hegemonies” program in April 2010. He will be working on a four-year long project “Chinese investment in Cambodia: an alternative path to development” which addresses the scale and scope of impacts that investments from
China exerts on the Cambodian economy and the opportunities and/or restrictions that these investments pose for the emergence of an embedded economy. Mr. Heng holds a Master in Public Policy, majoring in development studies from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University Singapore and a Master in Management from Royal University of Law and Economic in Cambodia. Mr. Heng is a founder and manager of Enrich, a sophisticated Cambodian youth club, and was a lecturer at the Institute of Foreign Languages of RUPP, a national coordinator of GERES Cambodia and an intern at UNESCO Phnom Penh office. His research interest lies in field of economic development, education, youth and social issues.
Project description
April 1, 2010: New PhD student Khieng Sothy joined the program
Sothy Khieng from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, has been appointed to the position of PhD researcher in the research program "Competing Hegemonies - Foreign-dominated processes of modernization and political change in post-conflict Cambodia”.
Sothy: “Starting in April 2010, I’ve joined the Cambodia Research Group to conduct a research project focusing on local NGOs under processes of decentralization in Cambodia. My educational background is in international development studies, with an MA from Ohio University. Since 2003, I participated in various research projects (both qualitative and quantitative) focusing on NGOs in Cambodia and, until recently, I was a researcher at the Cambodia Development Resources Institute (CDRI), a leading independent development policy research agency in Cambodia.”
January 1, 2010: Dr. Ngin Chanrith post-doc researcher
As of January 1, 2010, Dr. Ngin Chanrith joined the research program “Competing Hegemonies” as post-doc researcher. Dr. Chanrith holds a doctorate in International Development (Nagoya University, Japan) and is currently affiliated to Royal University of Phnom Penh as Founding Director and Lecturer of the Graduate Program in Development Studies. Dr. Chanrith will conduct a research on the dynamics of state-society relations under competing development models. For a brief description of this project, please check the appended document.
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