Dr. Thath Rido earned his undergraduate degree in Mathematics at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He further pursued graduate studies at Nagoya University, Japan, where he obtained both a Master’s and a PhD in International Development, with a focus on development economics. Since 2015, he has taught Statistics and Economics at the Royal University of Phnom Penh’s Faculty of Development Studies. And from 2017 to 2021, he was an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan.