Kimteang Leng is a program officer for The Asia Foundation in Cambodia. Her main duties involve the MFAT local budgeting program, and she also serves as coordinator for our scholarship programs. From 2021 to 2023, Kimteang also worked for the UNICEF-MoEYS Leadership program and coordinated scholarship programs and Books for Asia.
Kimteang has worked in the field of education since 2010, including teaching, coordination, management, and networking. She started her career as a research assistant and moved on to become an English teacher, associate vice chancellor, vice-principal, and program manager in several educational institutes. Additionally, she enhanced her research skills at UNICEF through her research fieldwork on Inclusive Education with a group of children in four districts of Siem Reap Province. As a program manager at MoneyTree Cambodia, she delivered a series of financial literacy programs with 30 schools and introduced a youth healthy lifestyles program. In addition, Kimteang has also worked on a three-year project on STEM education with KOICA that has enabled her to initiate the “best school—best teacher” concept to 41 public schools in Phnom Penh and reach around 2000 teachers through an app and Zoom classes.
Education: Kimteang holds a master’s degree in Education in Educational Administration and Leadership, from the Royal University of Phnom Penh, in addition to bachelor’s degrees in History and Teaching English as a Foreign Language.