Sarim Khem

Sarim Khem (2nd Vice President) is a 2011 postgraduate endeavour award holder, currently doing Ph.D in food science at RMIT University in Melbourne. In 2009, he graduated with a first class honour in master of applied science in food science from AUT University in New Zealand.

Following the graduation from the National Institute of Education in Phnom Penh, he was selected as a chemistry lecturer where he also had a chance to get some technical training in Japan.

His role as a lecturer was to train students to be high school teachers and to organise and deliver training to high school science teachers so that they can introduce practical work to their students using locally available materials. Furthermore, he was also providing translation and interpretation service to various local and international institutions.

By experiencing a student life himself in foreign countries, his passion is to assist and support other students coming to study in Australia both academically and socially. Moreover, growing up in a family of six children where most of them could not finish primary school, his passion is to help other unfortunate students to get the highest possible education they want. Only through education that poverty reduction can be realised.