About the Panelists

Main Speaker

His Royal Highness Prince Norodom Sirivudh is the brother of the King, HRH Prince Norodom Sihanouk. In 1994, he founded and chaired the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP), a non-political, non-partisan research and policy organization based in Phnom Penh. Prior to this, he was in exile for twenty years in France and Thailand after the 1970 coup dÕŽtat against the royal government. In 1995, the then second Prime Minister, Hun Sen, placed him under house arrest. Immediately after that, Amnesty International declared him as a political prisoner. Finally in 1998, he received a royal pardon from the King and was allowed to return to Cambodia in January 1999.

Dr. Kao Kim Hourn is currently the executive director of CICP. Aside from this, he holds several offices as a minister in the Supreme National Economic Council of Cambodia, as Secretary General of the Cambodia Committee for the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, a member of the Board of Directors of the Human Rights Vigilance of Cambodia, and as an advisor to CambodiaÕs Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Affairs.

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