Mengly J. Quach

Biography

Mengly J. Quach (born 25 March 1969 in Battambang Province, Cambodia) is a Cambodian physician, educator, entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Mengly J. Quach Education (MJQE), which he established in 2005.

Quach was born in Cambodia and experienced the Khmer Rouge period and the subsequent conflict along the Cambodian–Thai border as a child. In 1979, his family fled toward Thailand and experienced the forced return of Cambodian refugees through the Dangrek Mountains. His experiences during this period later became the subject of his memoir Dangrek Mountains …Unforgettable.

Quach was raised and educated in the United States. He studied pre-medical sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, earned a Doctor of Medicine from Spartan Health Sciences University, and received a Master of Public Health in Public Health Practice from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His medical training also included a clerkship at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago.

Before returning to Cambodia in 2002, Quach taught at Cleveland Chiropractic College in California. After returning to Cambodia, he worked in public health and held academic positions at Pannasastra University of Cambodia and the University of Cambodia, where he served as Founding Dean and Associate Professor of Public Health.

As an author, Quach has written and co-written books on personal experience, education, business, leadership, and philosophy. His publications include Dangrek Mountains …Unforgettable (2018), 108 Ideal Practices (2018), Mengly J. Quach's Business Ideas (2019), The Philosophy Collection (2020), Poems from the Heart (2020), and Shortcut (2022). An English edition of Dangrek Mountains …Unforgettable was published by Mengly J. Quach University Press in 2024.

For his humanitarian and social contributions, Quach received the Cambodian royal title of Oknha in 2009 and was granted the title Neak Oknha in 2021 by King Norodom Sihamoni.

His memoir Dangrek Mountains …Unforgettable recounts his family's experiences during their flight from Cambodia and their ordeal at the Cambodian–Thai border in 1979. The book is also the source material associated with the film Blood Border: Cambodia's Second Killing Fields.