Tak-Wing Ngo is Extraordinary Professor of Asian History at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He came to the Netherlands in 1995, and since then has been teaching politics and political economy of China at Leiden University. Before joining the academia, he worked as an anti-corruption officer at the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong. After that he worked as a journalist, and was the Chief Editor of the daily newspaper Hong Kong Daily News.
He obtained his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. His research focuses on the history, politics, and political economy of East Asia. He has published 10 books and several dozens journal articles and book chapters on colonial rule, state making, government-business relations, economic governance, and cultural politics of Asia.
He was a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (Wassenaar), and has held visiting positions at Waseda University (Tokyo), Tsinghua University (Beijing), and Academia Sinica (Taipei). He is currently the Head of the IIAS Centre for Regulation and Governance, the Editor of the refereed journal China Information, and the Editor of the book series Governance in Asia published by NIAS Press (Copenhagen).
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