Pan Sorasak

Pan Sorasak (Khmer: ប៉ាន សូរស័ក្តិ; born 30 October 1955) was Minister of Commerce of the Royal Government of Cambodia from 2016 to 2023.

He also led a task force among others, on the ratification of Cambodia’s Trade Facilitation Agreement for the WTO’s Bali Package (2013-2016).

Under his leadership, the Ministry of Commerce has pushed for the finalization of many draft laws and various amendments including consumer protection, food safety, competition, secured transaction and trade remedy.

He is recognized as one of the main drivers of the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in SMEs development to increase their competitiveness.

Before joining the public sector, Sorasak spent his career in the private sector for 18 years, occupying various senior positions (up to Corporate Vice President) with UNOCAL, an American multinational oil and gas exploration company in the United States, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore and headed its country office in Cambodia.