Yiakhang Pangxang holds a Bachelor Degree in General Economics, and a Higher Diploma in English. From 2010 to 2011 he attended the School of Economics and Management at the University of Minho, Portugal as an exchange student. From 2012 to 2013 he studied Economics at the School of Economics and Management in the University of Trento, Italy. In 2014 he audited the courses ‘Introduction to Environmental and Resource Economics’ and ‘Research Methods for Environmental Management’ in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University, Australia. He is currently working as an assistant teacher at the National University of Laos.