I turn data into decisions that matter.
For the past twelve years I've worked across Asia and Africa helping governments, UN agencies, and private sector organisations make better decisions through rigorous evidence. My career has taken me from moderating focus groups in Phnom Penh to overseeing a national agricultural census covering two million households — and most of the interesting stuff has happened in between.
Currently, I'm a Statistician and Thematic Lead for Data and Digital Transformation at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in Cambodia. I work as an integrated expert within the National Institute of Statistics, where I lead four concurrent projects: the national Census of Agriculture, the annual Cambodia Agriculture Survey, a machine learning capacity development programme with government, and rice crop monitoring using Earth Observation data.
The work produces Cambodia's official agriculture statistics — data that feeds into national policymaking, SDG monitoring, and food security planning. It involves coordinating with multiple government ministries, managing data from 2 million+ households collected by a team of over 4,000 people, and increasingly, bringing machine learning and satellite data into the toolkit of national statisticians.
Alongside this, I consult as a Statistician for NIRAS on the Modern Cooking Facility for Africa programme, designing statistical sampling and verification methodologies for results-based financing across 26 cooking service providers in multiple African countries.
