Photograph of Peter Carey courtesy of the Cambodia Trust.
Peter Carey, PhD, has been honored by Queen Elizabeth II with a Member of the British Empire (MBE) designation, the fifth rank of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire order of chivalry.
Carey, a co-founder of the Cambodia Trust and former modern-history don at Oxford University, England, serves as the Cambodia Trust’s country director for Indonesia. Carey received the MBE in the queen’s Birthday Honours List, for “services to the disabled of South East Asia.”
“Peter has given the Cambodia Trust 22 years of unstinting leadership and vision,” explained Carson Harte, Cambodia Trust executive director. “He has played an instrumental role in the Cambodia Trust’s expansion across Cambodia into Timor Leste, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and the Philippines. We are very proud that Peter has been recognized with an MBE. This is also a recognition of the importance of our work in providing a helping hand out of poverty for people with disabilities in countries such as Cambodia.”
Carey, who was recognized in 2008 with a Beacon Prize for Leadership-sometimes called “the Nobel Prize for charities”-will receive his MBE medal from the queen at the spring investiture ceremony of 2011.
For more information, see “Peter Carey: Transforming Nations,” The O&P EDGE January 2009.
