Thierry Zéphir

is a French research engineer (ingénieur d'études [fr]) at the Guimet Museum,[1] and a specialist in Khmer art and the Indianized world.

Thierry Zéphir is a former student of Albert Le Bonheur (1938–1996), and a graduate of the École du Louvre where he now teaches the arts of India and the Indianized world.

[2] Since 1991, he has regularly participated in the training of students at the Faculty of Archaeology of the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh.

[3] He curated several exhibitions including "Angkor et dix siècles d'art khmer" (Grand Palais, 1997), which for the first time brought together the masterpieces of Khmer sculpture from the Guimet Museum in Paris and the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh; "Trésors d'art du Vietnam, la sculpture du Champa" (in collaboration with Pierre Baptiste, Guimet Museum, 2005–2006); and "L'Âge d'or de l'Inde classique, l'Empire des Gupta" (Grand Palais, 2007).

[4] In 2019, he conceived the illustrated catalogue for "Buddha, The Golden Legend" exhibition curated by Sophie Makariou [fr], which took place at the Guimet Museum.