Kwa Chong Guan is Chairman of the National Archives of Singapore Board.
He is also affiliated with the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies
where he researches regional security issues and the History Department of
the National University of Singapore where he is involved in a project to source
for archival records on Singapore before the British arrived in 1819. Kwa was a
former Director of the Oral History Centre and concurrently, the old National
Museum which he lead through a strategic planning process which transformed
the old Museum into three museums under the National Heritage Board.
He began his career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before being assigned to
the Ministry of Defence. His publications include 'Singapore: A 700 Year History;
From Early Emporium to World City' (2009, co-authored with Derek Heng and
Tan Tai Yong) and co-editor (with John Skogan), 'Maritime Security in Southeast
Asia'(2007).
Nadia Fauziah Dwiandari (1979) was born in Boyolali, Indonesia.
She studied International Relations in Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta.
Since 2003 she is an employee of Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia (ANRI-
the National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia). In 2006, she joined
ENCOMPASS programme and graduated her master on history and archivistics
in Leiden University with a thesis on archives management in Algemene Secretarie,
the colonial government's secretariat in the Dutch East Indies.
Jinna Smit (1974) studied Medieval History (University of Amsterdam) and
Archivistiek A (Archiefschool The Hague)She is currently working at the
Nationaal Archief (National Archives of the Netherlands) as Project Manager
Mutual Cultural Heritage Program. In her free time, she is writing her PhD thesis
about the chancery of the counts of Holland/Hainault, 1299-1345.
Nico Vriend (1979) is historian and archivist. He graduated in 2005 from the
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with a thesis on the Chinese Massacre in Batavia
(1740). Injanuary 2012, he completed the master 'Archival Studies' at Leiden
University. For that, he wrote a thesis on the information system and network of
the Dutch East India Company in the eighteenth century. Since 2006, he works
at the Public Services department of the Noord-Hollands Archief in Haarlem,
the Netherlands.
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