Leading Singaporean oral historian Mark Wong has been elected the new president of the International Oral History Association (IOHA).
Mark is an assistant director/senior specialist at the Oral History Centre, National Archives of Singapore, where he has led oral history projects on politics, the public service, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the newly-elected president of the IOHA, a rare space of global camaraderie, Mark hopes to use his term to deepen the association’s roots and extend connections among the international oral history community.
Mark is well-known in the Australian oral history community.
He started PhD studies at the University of Canberra in 2024 and is researching the historiographical value of large oral history archives like Singapore’s. He has enjoyed learning from Australian oral historians through OHA conferences in Brisbane (2019) and Naarm/Melbourne (2024), as well as participating in oral history reading groups.
2025 IOHA conference.
Mark (pictured below) was elected president at the recent IOHA conference held in Kraków Poland from 16 to 19 September.
All plenary sessions from the conference are now available on the YouTube channel of the Polish Oral History Association: https://www.youtube.com/@PTHM_POHA.
Next conference
The next IOHA conference will be in 2028 in Macau, China.
