Affiliated with the Cambodian League for Democracy Party, he took office in 2006 as the first LDP President. Also a businessman and an attorney, he worked in the electronics field and served in the Cambodian Ministry of Interior.
After briefly attending the Royal University of Phnom Penh's Department of Media and Communication, he earned a law degree from Cambodia's Royal University of Law and Economics.
From 2003-2006, he served as a political representative from Cambodia's southern Prey Veng Province.
He grew up in Prey Veng, Cambodia, as the son of two dentists.
Before joining the LDP (League for Democracy Party), he declared his membership in the Cambodian liberal Sam Rainsy Party.
