Paul Metayo
Master of Business Administration, 2007
Paul Metayo has a deep understanding of and experience with the Southeast Asian culture. His travels to Laos and meetings with a leader of the Laotian resistance forces that opposed the communist government inspired him to write a book. Titled “Interview with Colonel Khambou,”the book is a result of his interviews with the Colonel and his promise to someday write a book about his life.
“I told him that I would get more education and a degree before I would write the book, and I did with University of Phoenix,” shares Paul.
The story focuses on Colonel Khambou, a man who escaped from a prisoner of war camp in 1975 and formed a resistance group to fight the communist government in Laos. It explores the hardships of the Laotian people who were terribly affected by the tension and conflicts brought on by the superpower countries of the Soviet Union, the United States and China, and the war in Vietnam and Indochina. The book emphasizes the Colonel’s efforts to pull his country out of the conflict, which ultimately cost him his family, property and life.
Paul has also written a book about the hardships of Indochinese refugees in the United States.
