Kua Kia Soong

Kua Kia Soon is director of the human rights organization SUARAM. He has also been Principla of the community-run New Era College (2000-08); Opposition Member of Parliament for Petaling Jaya (1990-95); Director of Huazi Research Centre (1985-90); political detainee under the ISA (1987-89) and lecturer at the National University of Singapore (1978-79). He studied for his BA Econ (1975), MA Econ (1976) and PhD in Sociology (1981) at Manchester University, UK.