Huang Haiyan is a Doctor of History, researcher and director of the Guangdong Folk Craft Museum, and a Council Member of the Chinese Museum Association. Dr Huang was an intern at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 2008-09. In recent years, she has been invited to give academic lectures and attend international academic conferences at the University of Michigan in the United States, the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, as well as domestic universities and museums.