Dr. KONG Marry is a Secretary of State of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Secretary General of the General Secretariat of the Digital Economy and Business Committee, Deputy Secretary General of Supreme National Economic Council, and Deputy Secretary General of the General Secretariat of the National Council for Digital Economy and Society. His areas of expertise include ICT development, digital innovation and transformation, digital economy policy development, Fintech and business. His main roles at the Ministry involve driving reforms through the use of digital technology and platforms, developing startup and digital entrepreneurship and SMEs to go digital, and promoting innovation in financial technology (FinTech). Dr. Kong Marry is a Chairman of Techo Startup Center’s board of directors; a member of the board of trustees of Entrepreneurship Development Fund; a member of the board of directors of the Royal University of Phnom Penh and Capacity Building Research and Development Fund (CBRD Fund) and a state financial controller for Cambodia SME bank. He is leading a number of working groups in the Ministry and in the government as well, where he serves as Chairman of the technical working group of the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s Information Technology Council, Chairman of the e-commerce taxation working group, Chairman of the inter-ministerial technical working group in charge of business registration via IT platform, Chairman of the inter-ministerial technical working group for implementing the e-KYC system, Chairman of Digital Technology and Enterprise for Rural Value Chains Unit of the Sustainable Assets for Agriculture Markets, Business and Trade (SAAMBAT) project and Permanent Vice-Chair of the digital economy policy framework working group. Dr. Kong Marry obtained his Master’s and Doctoral Degrees in Telecommunications Technology and Information Technology from Waseda University, Japan, Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the National University of Management, and is an associate member of the Council of Academicians of the Royal Academy of Cambodia.
H.E. Dr. Nguonly Taing is a Deputy Secretary General of the General Secretariat of the Digital Economy and Business Committee, Director General of the General Department of Digital Economy, and Director General of Techo Startup Center, which is a public administration institution, under the guidance of the Ministry of Economy and Finance. During his assignment, he has driven various startup accelerators, including the Startup Cambodia national program, has led the technical team to build the Cambodia Data Exchange platform (CamDX), has been a principal investigator of FinTech research, and has led the applied research on Natural Language Processing. He has 15 years of experience in software engineering and more than 10 years of experience in lecturing Distributed Systems and Machine Learning. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Royal University of Phnom Penh in 2002, Cambodia, M.Sc. in ICT from Waseda University, Japan, in 2009, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Dresden University of Technology, Germany, in 2018.
Her Excellency Marina Phal is currently holding a position at the General Secretariat of the Digital Economy and Business Committee as a Deputy Secretary General and Deputy Chief of the Secretariat for the E-Services for Business Inter-Ministerial Working Group. Prior to this assignment, she was a Deputy Director General and Innovation Program Manager at Techo Startup Center, where she oversaw the non-technical aspect of the Technology and Innovation Department, out of which the Cambodia Data eXchange (CamDX) platform, the e-KYC and e-KYB services, and the Online Business Registration (OBR) platform are born. She handled coordination between and among public and private sectors and supervised the operational aspect of the services. Prior to this role, she also worked in the area of youth and gender.
Her Excellency is a Master’s graduate of Development Studies from Lund University, Sweden, and a Bachelor’s graduate of Sociology (Women’s and Gender Studies minor) from Pacific Lutheran University, USA.
