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 d'etat 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.
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 Cambodia's
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Affairs.