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The Ngee Ann Kongsi Professorship in International Relations was established on 27 November 2007 through a donation of $3 million from Ngee Ann Kongsi and a matching grant from the Singapore Government. Income from the endowment will be used to engage renowned scholars in international relations to teach and to research at RSIS.

Ngee Ann Kongsi has a long history of promoting education in Singapore and Nanyang Technological University has benefited from its many generous donations. The University’s association with Ngee Ann Kongsi began in the 1990s when the kongsi donated $1 million to the Chinese Heritage Centre located in the University. In 2005, Ngee Ann Kongsi also donated $1.5 million to set up the Ngee Ann Kongsi Professorship in Traditional Chinese Medicine to help build up the University’s expertise in traditional Chinese medicine. Besides these, it has also awarded many scholarships and bursaries to students at NTU over the years.
The following scholars have held this chair previously:

• Professor Zhang Yunling, Professor of International Economics and Director of the Division of International Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, from 26 October to 7 November 2008.
  

• Professor Sumit Ganguly, the Tagore Professor in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, from 1 February to 31 May 2010.

The last scholar appointed to this chair is Professor David Shambaugh, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Director, China Policy Program at George Washington University; and Senior Fulbright Research Scholar at China Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute of World Economics and Politics, from 9-20 March 2011.