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. COLONIAL LEGACY IN SOUTH EAST ASIA - THE DUTCH ARCHIVES 192

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