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Emeritus Professor Tan Sri Dr. Khoo Kay Kim was born on 28 March 1937 in Kampar Perak. He received his Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Malaya, Singapore in 1959. There he served as a teacher for about four years before returning to University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur) as a Tutor in 1964. He has the privilege to be trained under K.G. Tregonning who held the Raffles Chair of History in Singapore and then Prof. Wang Gungwu. Tan Sri Khoo Kay Kim was appointed as a lecturer at the Department of History, University of Malaya after completing his masters in 1967. He was the first to conduct history lectures in the Malay language. The History Department, then under Prof. Wang Gungwu, played a pioneering role in using the Malay language as a medium of instruction, even before the founding of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 1970. After obtaining his Doctoral Degree in 1974, he was promoted to the post of Associate Professor and was offered the new Chair of Malaysian History from 1975 until 1992. Tan Sri Khoo Kay Kim is a prolific writer and has published extensively (books, book chapters and journal articles) and has presented papers at national and international levels. In terms of administration at the University of Malaya, he served as the Head of the Department of History, University of Malaya (1973-1974), (1982-1984) and as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from 1984 to 1986. He was also the Director of the Sports Centre of the University of Malaya from 1994-1996. Throughout his career, he has supervised numerous M.A and Ph.D theses and acted as external examiner as well as academic assessor to various local and foreign universities including Monash University, Adelaide University, National University of Singapore, University Sains Malaysia, University of Brunei etc.