Konrad Ng is the executive director of the award-winning Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design in Honolulu, Hawaii – the only museum dedicated exclusively to Islamic art in the United States. Before joining Shangri La, Konrad was the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Asian Pacific American Center in Washington, DC where he produced exhibitions, public programs, and digital initiatives about Asian Pacific American history, art, and culture. He was also a professor of critical studies in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Academy for Creative Media and the first curator of film and video at the Honolulu Museum of Art. Konrad has a doctorate in political science from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, a master’s degree in cultural, social and political thought from the University of Victoria, and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and ethnic studies from McGill University.