Ooi Kee Beng (Chinese: 黄基明; pinyin Huáng Jī Míng; born 31 May 1955) is a political historian and executive director of Penang Institute. Prior to this, he was the deputy director of ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute. He is the founder-editor of the Penang Monthly, ISSUES (Penang Institute), Monographs (Penang Institute) and ISEAS Perspective (ISEAS). He is also editor of Trends in Southeast Asia, and a columnist for The Edge.[1]