Clifford Pereira is a long-time Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) where he first presented the voyages of Zheng He to the society in 1991. He presented his initial investigation on the East African portion of the Mao Kun chart at the 2010 International Conference on Zheng He and the Afro-Asian World at Melaka followed by Cambridge University (UK) and at Dalian Maritime University where he was Visiting Foreign Specialist Researcher (2011-15). Pereira is a frequent speaker at the University of Hong Kong. He holds a Master’s in Historical Research and is based in Hong Kong.