Mr Yeo Kirk Siang is the Senior Director of Heritage Policy at the National Heritage Board (NHB). He oversees various aspects of NHB’s work, including the research, documentation and commemoration of Singapore’s built heritage and national monuments, archaeology and intangible cultural heritage. He is currently a member of the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Evaluation Body, a board member of the Southeast Asian Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts (SEAMEO-SPAFA) and is involved in other advisory panels and committees in various government agencies. Prior to joining the NHB, Kirk Siang worked at the Ministry of National Development (MND) and was responsible for developing policies and strategies related to the built environment and sustainable development.

Sunitha Janamohanan has worked in the arts since 1999 with a portfolio that covers a range of art forms and creative industries. She has been an arts manager, curator, producer, venue manager and heritage manager in Kuala Lumpur and Penang, Malaysia. She has an MA in Arts Administration from Columbia University, New York, and is presently teaching Arts & Cultural Management at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. She has been a member of the Heritage Advisory Panel for the National Heritage Board of Singapore since 2018, serving on a sub-committee for Intangible Cultural Heritage. Sunitha’s research interests include community and socially engaged arts practice; local arts management models in Southeast Asia; and the intersections of social practice, labour, organizational behaviour and cultural leadership.

Dr Maznah Mohamad is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore. Her current research area is Gender, Sexuality and Islam in the Malay world. She was the Principal Investigator for a research project on Being and Becoming Female in the Malay World: Interrogating and Curating the Photo-Archives of Early Singapore funded by an NHB Heritage Grant. A forthcoming book out of this project is Visual Representations of Femininities in the Malay World: Camera, Chimera and Colonisation, which will be published by Amsterdam University Press. Her other published books include The Divine Bureaucracy and Disenchantment of Social Life (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2020), and The Malay Handloom Weavers: A Study of the Rise and Decline of Traditional Manufacture (Singapore: ISEAS, 1996).

Dr Koh Keng We is currently assistant professor in the History Programme at Nanyang Technological University.  He taught Southeast Asian history in the Department of Asian History at Seoul National University and was previously also curator at the Dr You-Bao Shao Centre for Documentation and Research on the Overseas Chinese. He teaches business history, migration history, the history of maritime Asia, Southeast Asian and world history and Singapore history. He was also principal investigator in a heritage and historical documentation project on the Nine Emperor Gods Festival in Singapore, and in another project on archipelago heritage communities in Singapore. He is currently working on projects on Chinese business history.

Dr Jinna Tay is a senior lecturer in the Department of Communications and New Media, in FASS, NUS. She researches in the areas of Asian television, fashion media in cities, and national identities. She has published widely in these areas and her edited books are, Television Histories in Asia: Issues and Contexts (2015), and Television Studies after TV (2009). She is currently working on a project on, Alternative media in Singapore and writing about fashion journalism, from the project on Fashion shows and fashion media: Documenting Singapore Fashion Heritage. She is also Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS.