Wang Gungwu

Wang Gungwu

Historian

Professor Wang Gungwu has been University Professor with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS) since 2007, and Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University since 1988. He is a Foreign Honorary Member of the History Division of the American Academy of Arts and Science, and former President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong from 1986 to 1995, the Director of the East Asian Institute (EAI) until 2007, and EAI chairman until 2018.