Founder and Secretary-General of the CNVLD, Christopher Minko was educated in Australia and Germany, and came to development from a background in the arts, exhibition design and in large scale event management  working in Australia, on amongst other things, the Australian Football League, and then became involved in organizing cultural exchanges between ASEAN nations and Australia. “Throughout my career, in all fields I have worked in, I have placed an emphasis on the involvement of the disadvantaged”.

Minko arrived in Cambodia in 1996  with a  mandate to work with Cambodian disability groups in order to generate awareness – both intra and internationally – of the insidious root cause of disability in Cambodia: Landmines. This was to be paired with high profile projects to draw attention to the huge problems – severe physical and psychological damage compounded by social and economic marginalisation - facing disabled individuals in Cambodia. He has been working towards these aims with the CNVLD in Cambodia using the unique power of sport and cultural exchange to foster social cohesion and civil society development.

Recipient:

• UNESCO International Fairplay Award 2003 
• Encyclopedia Britannica Sports for all Award 2007
• Cambodian Prime Ministers Gold Medal for Humanitarian Services 2009

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