Dr Chea Phal is currently the Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. He has previously worked as a consultant for the World Bank, a research fellow at Kobe University, and an adjunct researcher at the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration (RIEB), Japan. He holds a Master’s and PhD in economics of education from the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University, Japan. He has been actively involved in joint projects between UNESCO Bangkok and Kobe University, conducting various educational research projects in Cambodia. His research interests encompass economics of education, education finance, higher education, learning assessment, and field experiments. He has authored and co-authored numerous scientific papers, including those indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases.
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Recent Posts
- Two Ogawa Seminar Students Received the “Excellent Poster Prize” at the 27th JASID Spring Conference
- Professor Keiichi Ogawa Delivered a Keynote Speech at the CAMPUS Asia Day for Global Career Development
- Traineeship Program Experience at the UNESCO Regional Office in Jakarta (Noa Yokogawa)
- Traineeship Program Experience at the UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe (Miyoko Watanabe)
- Internship Experience at Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, Cambodia (Runjing Guo)


