Prof. Serey Sok

Prof. Serey Sok is the Head and Professor at the Research Office of the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP). Internationally, he has been appointed as a visiting research fellow at various top universities, including Hong Kong Baptist University in 2026 (Hong Kong), Lancang-Mekong Young Scholar at Fudan University in 219 (China), Academy of Korean Studies in 2017 (South Korea), Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017 (USA), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2016 (Malaysia), Central European University in 2016 (Hungary), and University of Washington in 2014 (USA). Between 1999 and 2010, Prof Sok worked with various national and international organizations, including the Women Development Association (Cambodia), UN Refugee Agency, UN-ESCAP Building (Bangkok), and the National AIDS Authority under the UNIADS Project (Cambodia). Dr. Sok completed his PhD in human geography at Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong) in 2013 and his MSC in regional and rural development at the Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand) in 2015. He is a current Principal Investigator (PI) on Research Projects funded by the World Food Program (WFP) and the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA). In the past, he received research funding from USAID, ADB, the World Bank, UNICEF, UNESCO, WWF, Save the Children, Oxfam Hong Kong, Johns Hopkins University, and Rutgers School of Public Health. He has received some awards, including (1) Kyoto Regional Conference Awards, Category A, Tokyo Geographical Society, and the Human Geographical Society of Japan; and (2) the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Hong Kong Dissertation Scholarship, Hong Kong, during his PhD at Hong Kong Baptist University. Dr. Sok conducted extensive research on the socio-economic development of agrarian communities, plastic waste, health and nutrition, rural livelihood strategies, climate risk adaptation, and participatory co-management of river systems and fisheries in Cambodia. He has also conducted fieldwork among Cambodians in the United States, France, South Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand. He is an author and co-author in top journals, including Communications Medicine (Nature Group), Scientific Reports (Nature Group), and the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Dr. Serey is the Editor-in-Chief of the Cambodia Journal of Basic and Applied Research (Cambodia), Editor-in-Chief of the Cambodian Journal of Education, Management, and Development (Cambodia), Editor of the Journal of Chakrabongse Bhuvanarth International Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (Thailand), Editor of the Cambodian Journal of Natural History (Cambodia), Editorial Board of Pacific Geographies (Germany), Editorial Board of Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan (Indonesia), and Editorial Board of Mekong Connect of AVI (Cambodia).