Mok Mareth | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Office: | 1st Minister of Environment |
Term Start: | 24 September 1993 |
Term End: | 23 September 2013 |
Predecessor: | Position established |
Term Start1: | 23 September 2013 |
Term End1: | 26 August 2014 |
Successor1: | Pol Hom |
Term Start2: | 27 September 2003 |
Majority2: | 8,701 (1.68%) |
Birth Date: | 20 January 1948 |
Birth Place: | Samraong, Takéo, Cambodia |
Party: | Cambodian People's Party |
Alma Mater: | Royal University of Agronomy Science (BS) Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier (PhD) |
Mok Mareth (km|ម៉ុក ម៉ារ៉េត; born 20 January 1944) is a Cambodian politician and former Minister of the Environment. He was born in Rumchang, Samraŏng District, Takéo Province, Cambodia.
Mareth was named a Senior Minister in the Cambodian Government in 2004 and is a member of the ruling Cambodian People's Party. He served as head of the Ministry of Environment from 1993 to 2013.[1] Mok was also elected a Member of Parliament for Takeo province in 2003. He formerly served as Vice Minister of Agriculture (1989–1993) and Vice Governor of Phnom Penh (1980–1989). Prior to these positions he served as vice president of the Phnom Penh party committee (1981–1989).
A natural scientist by training, Mareth earned a bachelor's degree in agronomy and fisheries engineering from the University of Agronomy, Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 1970 and his PhD in animal and aquatic biology from Paul Sabatier University, in Toulouse, France in 1974. After completing his doctoral work, he was a biological researcher at ORSTROM in France (1974–1976).[2]