Meet the Team

Since its creation in 2008, the ADF has been run by a small team of individuals driven by passion and wholly dedicated to their work. In addition to the core team presented below, the organisation is working with international and Cambodian consultants, as well as Village Health Facilitators (VHF)  living on Phnom Kulen.

The Core Team

The core team is made of international and local experts in charge of managing the organisation and implementing its activities on a daily basis.

Sakada Sakhoeun
National Manager and Project Coordinator for Archaeology

Sakada is a Cambodian archaeologist who graduated in 2009 from Phnom Penh's Royal University of Fine Arts. He has been involved in many archaeological projects for Sydney University (Australia) and Sophia University (Japan).

He joined the ADF in 2009 and is the leading Cambodian archaeologist of it. He spend his time between the ADF office in Siem Reap and the archaeological sites on Phnom Kulen.

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Mout Mien
Income Generation​ Supervisor and House Manager

Mout is a Cambodian Childhood specialist who worked for ten years as a nurse assistant in a local health center in the village of Tbeng, near Phnom Kulen.

She joined the ADF in June 2012 as Nutrition Health Officer and spent most of her time on Phnom Kulen implementing the nutrition project over the villages. Since May 2014, she has been reassigned to the Income Generation team.

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Samry Seng
Nutrition and Hygiene Supervisor

Samry will assist Nutrition officer in activities concerning hygiene and nutrition. He will make sure that target communities will benefit from ADF's nutrition activities, including hygiene, nutrition and education. Having been an English teacher, Samry will work closely with the target schools on Kulen mountain to ensure that the school-children are able to study in a friendly and hygiene environment.  

Coming from a nearby community, Samry has joined ADF since May 2015 and will lead the target communities on the mountain to adopt a hygiene and healthy way of living, under the supervision of the Nutrition officer.

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Dr. Jean-Baptiste 'JB' Chevance
ADF Program Director, Archaeology Program Manager

JB is a French archaeologist who has been working in Angkor since 1999 as an archaeologist for the Ecole Française d'Extreme Orient, INRAP and for the preventive archaeological unit at the APSARA Authority. Surveying Phnom Kulen since the early 2000, he completed his PhD on the occupation and mapping of Phnom Kulen during Angkorian and post angkorian time, at La Sorbonne, France. 
He set up the ADF in 2008 and is Program Director and Senior Archaeologist, running the "Archaeological side" of the ADF.

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David Sandilands
Development Program Manager

Dave is an Australian development expert who has been working in Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam for international organisations including CARE, Action Contre la Faim (ACF), the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) as well as the local organisation Neary Khmer, with a special focus on nutrition and agriculture projects.
​In 2015 and 2016, Dave worked for the WHO in Sierra Leon, helping the fight against Ebola.

He joined the ADF in 2010 as Development and Nutrition Manager running the "Dev' side" of the ADF.

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Mike Hem
APSARA counterpart

Mike is a Cambodian archaeologist who graduated from the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh in 2013. He has been working for the APSARA National Authority since March 2014 and is currently based in Anlong Thom Village and in  Preah Ang Thom Village, on Phnom Kulen.
Mike is the other official representative of APSARA National Authority on Kulen and is in charge of the maintenance and protection of the sites with his team of 25 local APSARA workers. He also collaborates with Vann and ADF team for the demarcation and the protection of the Buffer zones.

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The Village Health Facilitators

The ADF is working in four villages with four Village Health Facilitators (VHF), Cambodian volunteers based on Phnom Kulen.

Touch Puy
VHF in Phum Khlah Khmum

Nimul Loem
VHF in Popel

Suth Sa Um
VHF in Sangke Lak

Khen Touch
VHF in Phum Thmey

The Supporting Staff

Thol Lay
ADF Housekeeper

Chanthou Som
Cook

Sokchea Yon
HUB Supervisor

The Consulting team

The following people are still providing expertise on a regular basis: Bruno Fabry INRAP Surveyor, Maryline Gaudin Surveyor, Eric Llopis and Frédéric Conche INRAP Archaeologists, Armand Desbat CNRS Ceramics expert, Ranet Hong Ceramics expert.

The Ex-team member​

The following people have worked as consultant, volunteer or staff with the ADF in the past: 
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Katia Chmielczyk Architect, 
Pierre Bâty and Bernard Farago-Szekeres INRAP Archaeologists, 
Stéphane De Greef and Prey Sovann Cartographer, database and GIS specialists, 
Evelise Bruneau Archaeologist,
Sreypich Yang, Sokhon Thoeurn, Akphivath Vitou and Norng Many Archaeologists, 
Kang Samhoeun, San Kosal, Lim Tenghak and Renovann Sen APSARA Archaeologists,

Chhoin Pieng Beekeeping community trainer, Daniel Jump Sustainable beekeeping trainer, 
Team Phirom, Samrith Vichet, Yon Soknim, Khen Sophea Nutritional Health Officer, 
​Pon Sambath Nutritional Health Assistant, 
Chhoeurn Rom VHF in Sangke Lak,
Pheakdey 'Wab' Chen Income Generation Officer and Nutritional Health Officer, 
Vanna Chhin Income Generation Officer,
Eric Guérin Development expert, 
Joe Baynam and Christian Pedrini, Volunteers

Ming Hay and Pou Sarom Anlong Thom former support team, 
and Pich Seu Logistic and Liaison Manager.