UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR

“ I believe universities can be great only where their teachers are supported to research the accuracy of what they know and are free to teach what they know to be true. ”

• Eminent historian of China and Southeast Asia
• Leading scholar of the Chinese diaspora and Chinese identity
• Internationally-respected China expert

• Faculty Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences since 1997
• Chairman, Governing Board, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy since 2005

• Chairman, Board of Trustees since 2002; Distinguished Professorial Fellow (1996-2002), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
• Member, Board of Governors, Institute of Policy Studies since 2002
• Vice-Chairman, Board of Governors, Chinese Heritage Centre since 2001
• Advisor, National Heritage Board since 1999
• Member, Board of Governors, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University since 1998
• Chairman, The Advisory Committee on Chinese Programmes, Media Development Authority (2002-2006)
• Chairman, Board of Governors, Asia Scholarship Foundation, Bangkok since 1998
• Vice-Chancellor, University of Hong Kong (1986-1995)
• Professor of Far Eastern History (1968-1986); Director, Research School of Pacific Studies (1975- 1980); Emeritus
Professor, Australian National University since 1988
• Professor of History, University of Malaya (1963-1968)

• Member, Advisory Board/Committee, East Asia Institute, Cambridge University since 1998; School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London since 2002; East Asia Centre International Advisory Board, Universities of Leeds and Sheffield since 2006
• Board Member and Secretary, Social Science Research Council, New York since 1999
• Member, International Advisory Board, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, since 1997
• Honorary Research Fellow, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing since 1996
• Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1994
• Member, Academia Sinica Taiwan since 1993
• President, Australian Academy of the Humanities (1980-1983)
• Member, Editorial Board or Advisory Editor of international journals including Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, The China Quarterly, The China Journal, Japanese Journal of Political Science and Modern Asian Studies

• The Inaugural Tsai Lecture, Harvard University (2006)
• The Foundation Lecture, University of Manchester (2006)
• Public Service Award (2004)
• The Herb Feith Lecture, Monash University (2004)
• The Smuts Commonwealth Lectures, University of Cambridge (2000)
• The Robert Menzies Oration, University of Melbourne (1997)
• The Edwin Reischauer Lectures, Harvard University (1997)
• Academic Prize, Fukuoka Asian Culture Prizes (1994)
• Commander of the British Empire (CBE) since 1988
• Honorary doctorates from the Universities of Sydney, Hull, Hong Kong, Monash, Melbourne, Soka, Griffith and Australian National University