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Biography
Lao Mong Hay is a Cambodian political analyst. He won the 2000 Nansen Refugee Award.
Personal life
Mong Hay was a refugee in the United Kingdom.
Career
Mong Hay is a Political analyst, a professor of political sciences at the University of Toronto, and the executive director of the Khmer Institute of Democracy in Phnom Penh. In 2019, he was criticised by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, for what Sen saw the tendency for negative perspectives.
From 1993 to 1994, Mong Hay led the Cambodian Mine Action Center from 1993-94. From 1988 until 1992, he was the Director of the Institute of Public Administration, the Head of the Human Rights Unit at the Khmer People's National Liberation Front and an aide to the KPLNF's leadership.
Mong Hay won the 2000 Nansen Refugee Award
