Dr. Ngeow Chow Bing is a nonresident scholar at Carnegie China, Carnegie’s East Asia-based research center on contemporary China. He focuses on China’s relations with Southeast Asian countries. He is also the director of the Institute of China Studies at the University of Malaya. He received his PhD in Public and International Affairs from Northeastern University.

Dr. Ngeow is editor of Populism, Nationalism and South China Sea Dispute (Springer, 2022, with Nian Peng), Researching China in Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2019) and Southeast Asia and China: A Contest in Mutual Socialization (World Scientific, 2017, with Lowell Dittmer). His scholarly articles have been published in journals such as Cold War History, Ocean Development and International Law, China Report, The China Review, Journal of Contemporary China, Asian Politics and Policy, Contemporary Southeast Asia, East Asia: An International Quarterly, Issues and Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, and others. He has also contributed book chapters to several edited volumes, and has published short pieces at online platforms such as East Asia Forum, The Asia Dialogue, ThinkChina, and Channel News Asia.

Dr. Ngeow has written a range of topics related to Chinese politics and history, such as China–Malaysia relations, the South China Sea dispute, the Belt and Road Initiative, foreign policy of Taiwan, grassroots politics in China, and the politics of think tanks and intellectuals in China. He speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, English and Malay.