Kao Kim Hourn is currently Minister Delegate Attached to the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia , a Member of the Supreme National Economic Council , Senior Fellow at the Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia , a Member of the Global Council of The Asia Society , and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Worldwide Support for Development ( WSD ) . His official title is His Excellency Dr. Kao Kim Hourn . He has been involved in Cambodian public service and think tanks since he returned to Cambodia in 1993 , after being educated in the United States . He played an integral role in Cambodia 's entrance into ASEAN in 1999 , and has continued to be a leader for international affairs within Cambodia , as Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation ( 2001-2003 ) and as Secretary of State for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation ( 2004-2013 ) . He founded The University of Cambodia ( UC ) in 2003 , which has become a top ranking Cambodian university under his tenure as President . He has since helped to found two think tanks : the Asia Economic Forum , and the Asian Faiths Development Dialogue . In addition , he also helped to found the South East Asia Television network and radio station , known as SEATV and Radio . In 2014 , he founded the Techo Sen School of Government and International Relations at The University of Cambodia , intended to provide high-class training for administrators , policy makers , and young leaders . And in 2015 , he founded the College of Media and Communications at The University of Cambodia to promote quality journalism and communications education and provide students with hands on training at Southeast Asia Television ( SEATV ) and Radio ( FM 106 ) . Seeing the need for high quality language education , he founded the School of Foreign Languages in 2018 which offers full degrees in English , Chinese , Korean , Japanese , and French and provides short courses in Thai and German . Additionally , he established the School of Creative Arts , aimed to preserve and celebrate Cambodia 's rich history of art , song , and dance . After the Cambodian Civil War ( 1967 – 1975 ) , the Khmer Rouge seized power and committed genocide ( 1975 – 1979 ) . Kao received very little formal education during his childhood due to the unstable and violent conditions in Cambodia at the time . His family was granted refugee status in 1981 , and eventually relocated to Herndon , Virginia . There , Kao enrolled in high school . He was 16 years old at the time and had very little educational experience and no English training . However , he was quite successful and graduated with a high school diploma with scholastic excellence three years later , in 1985 . He then attended Baylor University in Waco , Texas , where he did his B.A. in Asian Studies He received a National Fellowship Scholarship to Ohio University in Athens for his Master ’s degree program . And in 1991 , he graduated with two Master 's degrees in Political Science and International Affairs . Additionally , he holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu . He received an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Public Service from Ohio University in 2007 , as well as another Honorary Doctorate Degree in Literature from the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology ( KIIT University ) of India in 2014
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Kao Kim Hourn