Professor Ooi Keat Gin  is currently Professor of the Modern History of Brunei/Borneo at the Academy of Brunei Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei and Visiting Professor at the Korean Institute of ASEAN Studies (KIAS), Busan University of Foreign Studies, Busan, South Korea. An elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (London), he serves as associate editor of Suvannabhumi: Multi-disciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, and honorary advisor of International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS), both Scopus-listed peer-reviewed scholarly journals. Formerly he was a Professor of History in the School of Humanities at Universiti Sains Malaysia as well as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies and the coordinator of the Asia Pacific Research Unit. He has decades of experience in research and teaching on East Asian and Southeast Asian history, historical theory and methodology.

Victor T. King is Emeritus Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Leeds, and Professor of Borneo Studies at the Institute of Asian Studies at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam, conducting research and teaching on Borneo and Southeast Asia more widely. He is also Senior Editorial Advisor in the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD) at Chiang Mai University, Thailand, and a Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), London.