Ker Pong Thock is the former Head of the Department of Chinese Language and Culture and Associate Professor at Universiti Sains Malaysia (2011-August 2015), PH.D. in philosophy from Universiti Malaya (UM). His main areas of research are Malaysian Chinese politics, Chinese communities, Chinese language education, race relations and Southeast Asian Chinese and contemporary China. His representative publications include Sixty Years of Turbulence: Research Anthology on Malaysian Chinese Society (2022), Challenges and Opportunities of Contemporary Malaysian Chinese Education (2022), Malay Political Hegemony: Perspectives of the Chinese" (2007), and "Malaysian Chinese Politics and Politicization, 1957-2008 (2016).