Danny Wong Tze Ken is Professor of History at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya where he teaches history of Southeast Asia and History of China. His research interests include History of Sabah, the Chinese in Malaysia,  and China’s relations with Southeast Asia.

He was Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya from 2018-2025. He was also Director of Global Planning & Strategy Centre, Universiti Malaya (2012-2018) and former Director of the Institute of China Studies (2014-2017) and former Head of the Malaysian Chinese Research Centre  at the same university.

Professor Wong is a Member of the National Council of Historians, appointed by the Prime Minister of Malaysia (2025-2027).

Professor Wong is a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences, Malaysia.

He is also Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, United Kingdom, Member of the Board of Governors, Chinese Heritage Centre, Singapore and Honorary Secretary and Council Member of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (MBRAS). 

In 2025, Professor Wong was elected President of the International Society for the Study of the Chinese Overseas (ISSCO) 2025-2028. He is also Vice-Chairman of the Global Hakka Studies Consortium since 2019.

Professor Wong is currently Visiting Chair Professor at the School of International Relations/Research School of Southeast Asian Studies, Xiamen University, China (2025-2028), was Visiting Professor at Peking University (2018). He was also Visiting Yip (China) Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge University (2017-2018); Visiting Scholar at the Hakka College, National Central University, Taiwan (2017); and Visiting Professor at the Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University (2010).

Among his publications are: Murder Most Foul: The Kalabakan Massacre 1890 (2025), What Sabahan Should Know (co-edited 2025), New Perspectives on Chinese Studies in Malaysia and Singapore (Co-edited, 2024), The Diaries of Alexander Rankin Johnstone Dunlop, 1897-1901 (Co-edited, 2023), Wang Gungwu and Malaysia (2021 & Winner of National Book Award 2022), The Kinabalu Guerrillas and the 1943 Jesselton Uprising (2020 & 2021), Chinese Studies in Malaysia and Singapore in a Global Context (2019), One Crowded Moment of Glory: The Kinabalu Guerrillas and the 1943 Jesselton Uprising (2019 & Winner of National Book Award, 2019), The Diaries of G.C. Woolley, Vol. 1: 1901-1907 (Co-edited, 2015); Vol. 2: 1907-1913 (Co-edited, 2016) & Vol. 3: 1913-1919 (Co-edited, 2018); The Chinese Overseas in Malaysia in an Era of Change (Co-edited, 2018), Historical Sabah: The War (2010), The Nguyen and Champa during 17th and 18th Century (2007), Historical Sabah: the Chinese (2005), Historical Sabah: Community and Society (2004), The Transformation of an Immigrant Society: a Study of the Chinese of Sabah (1998).