Dr. Sothy Khieng

Dr Khieng is the founding President of Cambodia University of Technology and Science and advises the National Council of Science, Technology and Innovation. He served as the Vice President (Research and Administration) at Kirirom Institute of Technology between 2019-2021. He is an experienced and accomplished scholars, educator and higher education administrator. Before joining KIT, he spent ten years at Cambodia’s leading researching think-rank, Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI). At CDRI, he co-founded and was the Head of Education Unit from 2014-2018 where he was a co-editor of Book on Cambodia Education 2015: Employment and Empowerment. He is also the author of a book on “The dawn of social enterprise in Cambodia?” which was published because of his doctoral research. His inter-disciplinary field of research interest includes post-secondary education, social entrepreneurship and innovation, and science and technology. He has held several research fellowship appointments, including at Griffith University, and University of Melbourne (Australia), and Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (Switzerland). Dr Khieng publishes peer-reviewed articles in various international journals. He co-founded the Comparative Education Society of Cambodia and is currently serving as a board member in this society and as an international advisory board member in Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education (UK). He has a PhD in Organization Sciences from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands and an MA in International Development Studies from Ohio University, USA, under the Fulbright Scholar Program during which he was the President of Ohio University Fulbright Association between 2007-2008.

Publication:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pJO_MbcAAAAJ&hl=en

Funded Research: 

• Challenges and future model of e-learning in post-secondary education during and after Covid-19: a comparation between Switzerland and Cambodia ($24,586) (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) (2021-2022)
• Improving software engineering program at Kirirom Institute of Technology, $30,388.00 (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport) (2021-2021)
• Higher Education Innovation in Mekong Lancang Region (Mekong Lancang Special Fund - Chinese Government) ($320,000) (2019 – 2020)
• Education Research for Effective Policy Reforms (Swedish International Development Agency) ($199,936) (2016-2021)
• Higher Education Policy Research & Influencing in Cambodia (Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) ($500,000) (Dec. 15 – Dec. 18)
• Research, Policy Dialogue and Capacity Building Program on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Cambodia) ($600,000) (2016 – 2020)
• Southeast Asian Social Innovator Network (European Union (EU) ERASMUS + Capacity-building in the Field of Higher Education 2016) (£999,445) (2016 – 2019)

Service and Leadership: 

• May 18 – Present: Founder and Board member of Comparative Education Society of Cambodia
• Dec. 17 – Present: International advisory board member, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education (UK)
• Apr. 13 – Present: Member of the Australian Alumni Association of Cambodia (AAA-C)
• Nov. 08 – Present: Member of the Fulbright and Undergraduate State Alumni Association of Cambodia
• Mar. 07 – June 08: President of Ohio University Fulbright Association (OUFA), USA
• May 01 – Oct. 01: Volunteer at Child Assistance for Mobilization and Participation (CAMP)

Teaching and Supervision: 

• Social Entrepreneurship
• Development Studies
•  Governance of NPOs
• Research Methods
• Writing for Publication
• Successful Grant Writing Applications

Contact Details: 

• Email: sothykhieng@gmail.com
• Tel: +85512 229 557
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sothykhieng/