Sophal Ear Assistant Professor Department of National Security Affairs Naval Postgraduate School Contact sear@nps.edu

Research/Teaching Interests
Post-conflict stabilization and reconstruction; Development administration and public policy; Comparative politics and political economy of Southeast Asia (Cambodia in particular)

Biography
Dr. Sophal Ear is an Assistant Professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School where he teaches courses on Stabilization and Reconstruction and on Research Methods. He is the author of "Does Aid Worsen Governance?", International Public Management Journal (September 2007) and "The Political Economy of Aid and Governance in Cambodia", Asian Journal of Political Science (April 2007), and the co-author of "One Way Out", New York Times (17 April 2005). Prior to joining NPS, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Public Policy and Administration at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University where he taught a graduate-level course on Policy and Administration in Developing Countries. He spent three years working and researching in Cambodia from 2003-2006, and was an Assistant Resident Representative for the United Nations Development Programme Timor-Leste (East Timor) from 2002-2003. For the past decade, he has consulted for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Agency for International Development grantee. A graduate of UC Berkeley and Princeton University, he moved to the United States from France as a Cambodian refugee at the age of 10.