Career
He is a professor of historical anthropology at the Royal University of Fine Arts and formerly the director of the department of culture of APSARA, the Cambodian management authority responsible for protecting the archeological park of Angkor. Ang Choulean was born in 01 January 1949 in Kompong Kleang, Siem Reap. He got a bachelor degree in Archaeology in 1974 in Cambodia and a Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology in 1982 in France.