王赓武教授是东亚研究所主席和新加坡国立大学大学教授，同时也是澳大利亚国立大学的名誉教授。

　　王教授是大英帝国司令勋章（CBE）持有人，澳大利亚人文科学院院士及前任院长，美国艺术与科学学院外籍荣誉会员，中央研究院院士，中国社会科学院荣誉院士。他曾获福冈亚洲文化奖国际学术奖。

　　王教授在新加坡马来亚大学获得学士学位和硕士学位，并于伦敦大学获得博士学位（1957年）。他的教学生涯从马来亚大学（新加坡和吉隆坡，1957-1968年，历史学教授1963-1968年）开始，然后转到澳大利亚国立大学（1968-1986年），担任远东历史系教授和系主任，以及太平洋研究中心的研究主任。1986年至1995年，他担任香港大学副校长。他还在1997年至2007年期间担任新加坡国立大学东亚研究所所长。

　　Professor Wang Gungwu is the Chairman of the East Asian Institute and University Professor, National University of Singapore. He is also Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University.

　　Professor Wang is a Commander of the British Empire (CBE); Fellow, and former President, of the Australian Academy of the Humanities; Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science; Member of Academia Sinica; Honorary Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Science. He was conferred the International Academic Prize, Fukuoka Asian Cultural Prizes.

　　Professor Wang received his B.A. (Hons) and M.A. degrees from the University of Malaya in Singapore, and his Ph.D. at the University of London (1957). His teaching career took him from the University of Malaya (Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, 1957-1968, Professor of History 1963-68) to The Australian National University (1968-1986), where he was Professor and Head of the Department of Far Eastern History and Director of the Research of Pacific Studies. From 1986 to 1995, he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. He was Director of East Asian Institute of NUS from 1997 to 2007.■