In August 2023 Dr SOK Siphana was appointed as a Senior Minister in charge of Special Missions (Multilateral Trade and Economic Affairs) as well as the Chairman of Trade Policy Advisory Board.

From 1999 to 2005, he served as Secretary of State at the Ministry of Commerce, where he acted as the lead negotiator in Cambodia’s accession to the WTO. From 2005 to 2009, he served as Director at the International Trade Center (ITC), a joint technical agency of UNCTAD and WTO in Geneva, Switzerland. Career wise at the service of Cambodian diplomacy, he was attached since 2011 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation where he served, among other advisory functions, the following: during Cambodia Chairmanship of ASEAN in 2012, as Member of the ASEAN Task Force on Substantive Issues, ASEAN India Eminent Person Group Co-Chair, Cambodian Sherpa to G20. For Cambodia Chairmanship of ASEAN in 2022, he served as Chair of the National Sub-Committee on Substances and Documentation and a G20 Sherpa.

He is holder of a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Widener University School of Law in Delaware, United States (1992), a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Bond University School of Law in Queensland, Australia (2009), and a “Docteur en Droit” from the Université de Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Paris, France (2022).

In 2022, His Majesty The King has bestowed him a lifetime Royal Title of “Bundit Sapheacha” (Academician) at the Royal Academy of Cambodia as well as a full Professorship in 2023.