Liang Fook is a Research Fellow and Assistant Director at the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore. His research interests cover China-ASEAN relations as well as China-Singapore relations.

He was a key member of a study team commissioned by the Singapore government to conduct a study into the Suzhou Industrial Park, the first government-to-government project between Singapore and China. He has also followed closely and written about developments on the Tianjin Eco-city and Chongqing Connectivity Initiative, the second and third flagship projects between the two countries.

Apart from his academic work, Liang Fook also manages the Singapore secretariat of the Network of East Asian Think Tanks (or NEAT for short) and the Network of ASEAN-China Think Tanks (or NACT for short), two Track II initiatives that have been officially approved to promote ASEAN plus Three and ASEAN plus One cooperation respectively.