Wang Gungwu is the Chairman of the East Asian Institute and University Professor, National University of Singapore. He is also Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University.

His books since 2000 include, in English: The Chinese Overseas: From Earthbound China to the Quest for Autonomy (2000); Don't Leave Home: Migration and the Chinese (2001); Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800: War, Trade, Science and Governance (2003); Diasporic Chinese Ventures. Edited by Gregor Benton and Liu Hong (2004); Divided China: Preparing for Reunification, 883-947 (2007).

Those in Chinese include 海外华人研究的大视野与新方向:王赓武教授论文集 Edited by Liu Hong and Huang Jianli (New Directions in Research on the Chinese Overseas, 2002); 王赓武自选集 (Selected Works, 2002); 移民及兴起的中国 (Migrants and China's Rise, 2005); and 离乡别土：境外看中华. (China and Its Cultures: From the Periphery, 2007). He also published in Japanese: 中华文明と中国のゆくえ (Chinese Civilization and China's Road Ahead, 2007).

John Wong is currently the Professorial Fellow of the East Asian Institute (EAI). He was formerly the Research Director of EAI (1997-2009). He was the Director of the Institute of East Asian Political Economy (IEAPE), Singapore (1990-96). Prior to this, he taught Economics at the University of Hong Kong (1966-71) and then the NUS (1971-1990). He also taught briefly at Florida State University as a Fulbright Visiting Professor. He had visiting appointments with Harvard's Fairbank Center, Yale's Economic Growth Center, Oxford's St. Antony College, and Stanford University. In 1996, he held the Chair of ASEAN Studies at the University of Toronto.

He did consultancy work for the Singapore government and many international organizations including UN ESCAP, ADB, UNIDO, and APO. He serves as an editorial board member of many learned journals on Asian studies and economic development.

He has written and edited over 28 books, and published numerous articles and papers in learned journals on the development of China and other East Asian economies, including ASEAN. He obtained his Ph.D. from London in 1966.