Mr Kwa is Head of External Programs, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University and Co-Chair of Singapore’s National Committee of the Council for Security Co-operation in the Asia Pacific. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of History, National University of Singapore.
Mr Kwa has been actively involved in NAS’ activities and was the history consultant for the development of NAS’ two World War II Interpretative Centres – Reflections at Bukit Chandu and Memories at old Ford Factory. As the former Director of the Oral History Centre from 1985-1994, Mr Kwa also has extensive experience in the field of oral history and has published and spoken widely on the subject.
Mr Kwa was educated at the old University of Singapore and the University of Kent in Canterbury. Mr Kwa has authored papers on the heuristics of Asian security practice, Singapore historiography and the Southeast Asian art history.

Prof Tan is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Director of the Institute of South Asian Studies, and Professor of History at the National University of Singapore. He has written extensively on South Asian history as well as on Southeast Asia and Singapore. His recent books include Creating ‘Greater Malaysia’: Decolonisation and the Politics of Merger (2008); Partition and Post-Colonial South Asia: A Reader (co-edited, 2007); The Garrison State (2005), The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia (co-authored, 2000) and The Transformation of Southeast Asia: International Perspectives on De-colonisation (co-edited, 2003).

Prof Heng is an Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Ohio State University, where he teaches pre-modern Asian history, historical thought and methodology, and world history before AD 1500. He researches the pre-modern economic interaction between Southeast Asia and China, pre-modern state formation of coastal port-states in Maritime Southeast Asia and the historiography of Singapore’s past. He is the author of Sino-Malay Trade and Diplomacy in the 10th-14th Centuries AD (Athens: Ohio University Press, Oct 2009), and the editor of New Perspectives and Sources on the History of Singapore: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach (Singapore: National Library Board, 2006), and Reframing Singapore: Memory, Identity and Trans-Regionalism (Amsterdam: Amster University Press, August 2009).