CLS operates under the direction of a Board which presently comprises five Members: Onn Sokny, Roeun Reth, Set Vannak, Paul Asprey and Hans Van Zoggel. Executive support is provided by the School Director, Nget Sothy.

Onn Sokny is a country director at Epic Arts. Sokny is an experienced advocate for inclusion in wider society and in the arts and culture sector. She has been a pioneer for inclusion in the arts throughout her 14 year career at Epic Arts. In 2015 she was recognized as one of Cambodian Living Art’s five Living Arts Fellows for cultural leadership and sustainability in society.

In 2016 Sokny spent ten weeks in the United Kingdom. There she worked with Unlimited as the International Professional Development Placement Assistant Producer (Artsadmin/Shape Arts).

In 2017 she was selected to join the United States Department of State International Visitor Leadership Program “Promoting Social Change through the Arts “. This program extended over three weeks in the USA.

In 2020 Sokny was selected to join online training organized by the Korea International Cooperation Agency and CAIT. The training, entitled “Capacity Building Program for Civil Society Leaders on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Developing Countries”, was hosted by Kyung Hee University

Sokny is ä Board Member of Cambodian Living Arts and is an Advisor to the Cambodian Ministry of Fine Arts.

Ruon Reth has over 16 years’ experience in education and training, working with local schools, the International Private Schools Association, and with the wider community and NGOs in Siem Reap and Kampot.

Reth has worked with Globaleer (Helping Hands Cambodia) since 2014. His roles with this organisation have included the following:

• developing whole school sites,
• assessment programs for libraries,
• mentoring and training  teachers,
• involvement in the Water Sanitation & Hygiene Program,
• working with local authorities and baseline assessment of community needs, and
• assisting volunteers and staff in working with the Health Program of Angkor Children’s Hospital.

He has been Executive Director of the Education Rural Community Development Organization (ERCO) since 2015, Centre Manager for the Universal Concept of Mental Arithmetic System in Kampot since 2018, and Chair of the Kampot NGO Network since 2019.

Set Vannak has worked since 2018 as a Program Officer with the QLE Expansion Project of Kampuchea Action to Promote Education. This is the largest NGO in the education sector in Cambodia. Its QLE Project is focused on expanding access to preschool and primary education for children, particularly disadvantaged children who have not been in school.

He worked previously with Building Community Voices, with the Cambodian League for Promotion and Defence of Human Rights, and with Cambodia’s Seila Program for rural development and poverty reduction.

Sek has a Specialty Teacher Degree from the Regional Teacher Training College of Takeo Province. He also has degrees in Psychology/Pedagogy from the University of Phnom Penh and in Public Law from Angkor Khemara University.

Paul Asprey has over 40 years’ experience in education and training and has worked extensively with First Nations students and adults in Australia’s Northern Territory.

He has worked with Chumkriel Language School since 2013, developing a whole school assessment program in reading, mentoring teachers, delivering literacy professional development, and supporting the CLS Director.

Paul has been the Manager of the Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS) Chumkriel Language School Project since 2015.

He is a member of the Rotary Club of Darwin North.

Hans Van Zoggel started his professional life as a teacher in the Netherlands before embarking on a career spanning 40 years on the ground and in consultancies in Laos, Bhutan, Thailand and Cambodia.

His consultancy work was to and through a range of international aid organisations including the World Bank, the World Food Programme, UNICEF, UNOPS, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development. It embraced such areas as sanitation and water supplies, agricultural development, education and social services, emergency food distribution, adaptation to climate change, and a range of community and institutional development plans with associated capacity building and training programs.

Hans also worked in refugee camps on the Thai-Cambodian border and was an Advisor to the Cambodian Red Cross on repatriation of 350,000 refugees from these camps to their homelands.

Hans has owned and managed a Guest House in Kampot since 2017.