• PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1996)
• MA (Comparative Asian Studies), University of Hong Kong (1989)
• BSocSc (Political Science), University of Hong Kong (1985)

• State Making and Development
• Rent-seeking Politics
• Institutional Voids in Developmental Governance

• Tak-Wing Ngo, Global Shadow Exchanges (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
• Tak-Wing Ngo and Eva P.W. Hung, Shadow Exchanges in Greater China (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming 2021).
• Eva P.W. Hung and Tak-Wing Ngo, eds., Shadow Exchanges along the New Silk Roads (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020). (https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462988934/shadow-exchanges-along-the-new-silk-roads)
• Tak-Wing Ngo and Eva P.W. Hung, “Informal Exchanges and Contending Connectivity along the Shadow Silk Roads”, in Shadow Exchanges along the New Silk Roads, ed. Eva P.W. Hung and Tak-Wing Ngo (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020), pp. 15-36. (https://assets.ctfassets.net/4wrp2um278k7/1eOL7TsrDr7i2TUKZyJ23G/6ddedd6a9531d9b0fffbb471d64dcc42/9789048541348_ToC_Intro.pdf)
• Tak-Wing Ngo and Eva P.W. Hung, eds., Special issue on “Checkpoint Politics in Cross-border Exchanges”, Journal of Contemporary Asia 49:2 (2019). (https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjoc20/49/2?nav=tocList)
  
• Tak-Wing Ngo and Eva P.W. Hung, “The Political Economy of Border Checkpoints in Shadow Exchanges”, Journal of Contemporary Asia vol. 48, no. 2 (2019), pp. 178-192. (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1555273)
  
• Eva P.W. Hung and Tak-Wing Ngo, “Organized Informality and Suitcase Trading in the Pearl River Delta Region”, Journal of Contemporary Asia vol. 48, no. 2 (2019), 233-253. (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1546888)
  
• Tak-Wing Ngo, “State-Business Relations in China’s Changing Economic Order”, in Business, Government and Economic Institutions in China, ed. Xiaoke Zhang and Tianbiao Zhu (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 47-77.
  (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-64486-8_2)
  
• Tak-Wing Ngo, “Overcoming Institutional Voids during Market Transition: Private Sector Financing in China”, Sociétés Politiques Comparées 44 (Jan-April 2018), pp. 1-20. (http://www.fasopo.org/sites/default/files/varia1_n44.pdf)
  
• Tak-Wing Ngo, “Variegated Capitalism and Varieties of Modernity”, in Multiple Modernities and Good Governance, ed. Thomas Meyer and José Luís de Sales Marques (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 60-70. (https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351273886/chapters/10.4324/9781351273886-5)
  
• Tak-Wing Ngo, “A Genealogy of Business and Politics in Hong Kong,” in Routledge Handbook of contemporary Hong Kong, ed. Tai-lok Lui, Stephen Wing-Kai Chiu and Ray Yep (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 324-341.
  (https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315660530/chapters/10.4324/9781315660530-20)

Tak-Wing Ngo is Professor of Political Science at the University of Macau. He holds a Ph.D. from SOAS London and worked as an anti-corruption official and journalist. He taught at Leiden University and was the IIAS Professor of Asian History at Erasmus University Rotterdam and a fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study at the Royal Netherlands Academy. Professor Ngo is currently the editor of the journal China Information (SSCI-indexed) and co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary Asia (SSCI-indexed). He also edits two book series on Governance in Asia (NIAS Press) and Global Asia (Amsterdam University Press). He is the author and editor of more than 20 books on East Asian politics and political economy.