Members
The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) has over one hundred members from eighteen countries across Asia and the Pacific, consisting of former political, diplomatic and military leaders, senior government officials, and scholars and opinion leaders. APLN aims to inform and energize public opinion, especially high-level policymakers, to take seriously the very real threats posed by nuclear weapons, and to do everything possible to achieve a world in which they are contained, diminished and eventually eliminated.
Pou SOTHIRAK
Distinguished Senior Adviser to the Cambodian Center for Regional Studies
Distinguished Senior Adviser to the Cambodian Center for Regional Studies; former Cambodian Ambassador to Japan and former Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy
Ambassador Pou Sothirak is a Distinguished Senior Adviser to the Cambodian Center for Regional Studies (CCRS), a foreign policy think tank focused on fostering research and dialogue among Cambodia’s younger generation. He is a retired academic and former senior government official with extensive experience in international relations, diplomacy, and public policy. He served as Cambodia’s Ambassador to Japan from 2005 to 2009 and was Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy from 1993 to 1998. He was elected as Member of Parliaments of Cambodia twice during national elections in 1993 and 2003. From 2009 to 2012, he was a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore. He previously served as Secretary of State at Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as Executive Director of the Cambodian Center for Cooperation and Peace. He has been appointed as advisor to the Cambodian government with the rank of Minister since 2013 until the present time.