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Mao Davin with Pierre at the Academy of Culinary Arts Cambodia   Dear friends, Thank you for your generous contribution to the Naomi Tami Memorial Scholarship Fund this year. Your donations have made a big difference in the lives of Cambodian students. As we near...

Seven students studying on scholarship at the Academy of Culinary Arts Cambodia   In September, seven students began studying at the Academy with the Naomi Tami Memorial Scholarship Fund. Donate to the Naomi Tami Memorial Scholarship Fund (via PayPal) today and...

Mao Davin (left) speaks with Academy founder, Pierre Tami.   Mao Davin is the first recipient of the Naomi Tami Memorial Scholarship. She began her culinary arts journey as part of the Academy of Culinary Arts Cambodia’s first cohort of students and is now into...

A new group of students has just started their culinary education journey at the ACAC. Last week 51 students (29 women and 22 men) began the the 2-year diploma program. Watch the video here. The Academy of Culinary Arts Cambodia is one key way Shift 360 invests in the...

Pierre Tami and the work of Shift360 has been featured on RSI (Radiotelevisione Svizzera). Watch the clip. 

Image from WEF. Watch the Video According to the World Economic Forum: 61 million jobs have been lost since 2008 200 million people are unemployed globally Youth unemployment is 3X higher than the rest of the population By 2020, we need to create 500 million new jobs....

The Southeast Asia Globe's Focus Cambodia met with Pierre Tami, ACAC Founder, Marcus Kalberer, ACAC Dean and took a tour of the Academy's state of the art facilities.  Read the whole article: "Cooking up Cambodia's Culinary Future".

From June 19-23, a team from the World Bank conducted a Jobs Diagnostics Mission in Cambodia and during that time the group met with Mr. Pierre Tami to learn more about the Academy of Culinary Arts Cambodia. The objectives of this missions were to: Identify the...

Four years ago, on May 7, 2013, the world lost a bright, shining light. At the early age of 23, Naomi Laura Tami passed away suddenly due to complications from a congenital heart defect.Today, the Tami family has established the Naomi Tami Scholarship Memorial Fund to...

Mr. Pierre Tami (left) with Mr. Hay Hunleng, Deputy Director General of the NEA.   The Academy of Culinary Arts Cambodia hosted a business lunch event for the very much appreciated members of the NEA (National Employment Agency). The goal of the event was to...

Ministry of Tourism delegation. H.E. Dr. Thong Khon sixth from the left; Mr. Pierre Tami, CEO of Shift360 to his left   H.E. Dr. Thong Khon (right) and Mr. Pierre Tami (centre) interviewed by Khmer media Academy of Culinary Arts Cambodia Hits High Note In a visit...

Above: World Economic Forum delegation with Senior Minister Sun Chanthol (fifth from the left) and standing next to him Dr. Rösler at the Ministry of Commerce. Below: Dr. Rösler (right) and Pierre Tami, CEO Shift360. October 19, 2015 Phnom Penh, Cambodia – New...

Pierre Tami (left) of Shift 360 - with Timo Albiez, Vice Director of SHL in Luzern, Switzerland   Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Youth in Cambodia are one step closer to gaining professional culinary experience and expanding their work opportunities. With the Academy of...

The Academy of Culinary Arts was signed into being by Ms. Kristina Kuehnel (left) of the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and Pierre Tami of Shift360 at the Embassy of Sweden on 13 March, 2015. Sida is the Academy's primary funding partner....

After four years of hard work and negotiations, Shift360 is very pleased to announce the launch of the Academy of Culinary Arts – Cambodia (ACAC) in Phnom Penh. The ACAC will fill a much-needed void in Cambodia’s hospitality sector as it tackles skills training and...

End Poverty, Build Shared Prosperity: Let’s Get to Work A news article  by Jim Yong Kim, President World Bank  Just last week, leaders committed to a target of ending extreme poverty by 2030. They also backed a second goal that didn’t get as much attention –what we...

Phnom Penh Post features CEO Talk with Pierre Tami. To read the full article, please click here.

From the soaring heights of the Tibetan Plateau in China’s Yunnan province, through the lush lowland plains of Vietnam where the Mekong spills into the Gulf of Thailand, the Greater Mekong Subregion encompasses limestone mountain formations, broad river valleys,...

Extract from Meeting Grand Challenges for the 21st century WEF, Dubai 2012 By Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Director-General, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Sweden “We need you to pay attention, take action and provide ideas because we...

Shift360 and Perfexcom are putting together an intensive one-week sales training course for Cambodian university students. Forty top-students will be selected to participate in a free (usually $200) course geared towards teaching the ins and outs of sales and...

Shift360 is excited to be a partner of PovertyCure, a new initiative that champions the creative potential of the person and seeks to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that fills the developing world. PovertyCure seeks to shift the emphasis: From aid to enterprise...