Tim Coulas

Tim Coulas is the Project Field Manager for the LMAP Canada Project as well as the Land Registration Expert. Tim's previous work includes being the manager of a CIDA-funded development project in Indonesia; repairing damage done to that country as a result of the tsunami, land titling and mapping for building over 5,000 houses in 22 villages in the province of Aceh in northern Sumatra. He has also worked on land registration development projects in Rajasthan, India, Ukraine, Poland, Russia and Moldova.

As a registered Ontario Land Surveyor, Tim has worked for Natural Resources Canada in their Geomatics division and has taught surveying and GIS courses at Ottawa's Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology. He holds a BSc in Survey Science from the University of Toronto and is working on the requirements for an MSc in Land Administration from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.

Tim is a recipient of Canada's Medal of Bravery from the Governor General. In March 2005, he and four other men rescued two trapped women from their submerged vehicle in the York River, in Bancroft, Ontario. The rescuers canoed through icy waters to save the two women.

In February, 2010, Tim was awarded the Medal of Chevalier, from the Kingdom of Cambodia, for work on the land administration project.

Kan Vibol

Kan Vibol is an Environment Specialist who has worked for GeoSpatial since 2000 in Cambodia on projects related to land mines. He is the Project Coordinator, Local Trainer and National Environment Specialist for the Land Administration and Management (Canada) project and now called the Cambodia Land Administration Support Project (CLASP).

From 2000 to 2002, he coordinated the recruitment, training and scheduling of the work of the field survey teams who interviewed citizens in 13,910 villages in Cambodia gathering data to feed into the United Nations Level One Survey (Humanitarian Demining). From 2002 to 2004, he worked on GeoSpatial's projects under CIDA funding and cooperated with the Cambodia Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction for the project on Land Administration in Mine-Affected Areas in Banteay Meanchey province. Subsequently, he worked with the Cambodia Mine Action Authority and five provincial authorities along the Cambodia-Thailand border on two CIDA projects, Task Assessment and Planning for Mine Action (TAP) and Agriculture Development in Mine-Affected Area (ADMAC).

Kan Vibol holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics degree and Certificates from a number of international and national training courses. He is the Executive Director of the Parks Society of Cambodia, an environmental NGO.