Professor Wai-Fung LAM 林維峯 Professor and Head, Department of Politics and Public Administration Director, Doctor of Public Administration (DPA)

Wai-Fung (Danny) Lam is Head of the Department of Politics and Public Administration, Director of the Centre for Civil Society and Governance, and Director of the Centre for Water Technology and Policy at The University of Hong Kong. He finished his undergraduate study at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and received a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Indiana University, Bloomington. Professor Lam is an expert in common-pool resource management, institutional policy analysis, public governance, and civil society. His research has focused on the design of efficient institutional arrangements for the governance and management of public resources, a core issue in public administration and sustainable development. Professor Lam has served on the editorial committees of Public Administration Review (PAR), International Review of Administrative Sciences (IRAS), Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (JCPA), Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (NVSQ), Asian Politics and Policy (APP), and World Development Sustainability; and is co-editor of The Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Administration. Professor Lam is Principal Investigator of academic and action research projects worth over HK$100 million. He is a leader of the Lai Chi Wo Rural Revitalization project which received the Special Recognition for Sustainable Development in the 2020 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation.

3917 2391

dwflam@hku.hk

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Professor John P. BURNS 卜約翰 Emeritus Professor and Honorary Professor, The University of Hong Kong

Emeritus Professor and Honorary Professor: He obtained undergraduate degrees from St. Olaf College and Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. He teaches courses and does research on comparative politics and public administration, specializing in China including Hong Kong. His research interests focus on public sector human resource management, civil service reform, party-state relations, and public sector reform. He is the author or editor of eight books, and his articles have appeared in the China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Pacific Affairs, andPublic Administration and Development. He served on the Editorial Committee of theChina Quarterly from 1991-2011 and servied on the HKSAR Government's Civil Service Training and Development Advisory Committee from 1997 to 2003.

3917 1201

jpburns@hku.hk

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Professor Alan N LAI 黎年 (BA., MPA, HKU), Adjunct Professor, The University of Hong Kong

Alan N Lai is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences. He obtained his BA and M Soc Sc (Public Administration) from The University of Hong Kong. He has a career of nearly 40 years in the civil service and the public service in Hong Kong. He was Director-General of Trade (1996-1999), Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (1999-2002), Permanent Secretary for the Treasury (2002-2007) and The Ombudsman (2009-2014). During his tenure as The Ombudsman, he was actively engaged in international ombudsman activities. He sat on the Board and served as Treasurer of the International Ombudsman Institute. He also served as Secretary of the Asian Ombudsman Association.

Professor Peter LAI Hing-Ling 黎慶寧 (BA. HKU), Honorary Professor, The University of Hong Kong

Honorary Professor: After graduation from the University of Hong Kong with a First Class Honours, Mr. Lai started working in the Hong Kong Government as an Administrative Officer. In 1995, he was promoted to the Secretary, Government Secretariat rank – the highest rank of the Administrative Service. He remained in that capacity across the changeover to Chinese sovereignty and was appointed the first Secretary for Security of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government on 1 July 1997, and left the civil service one year after. Retired from the Government, he stayed in Australia but served as a Fellow of the Asia Research Centre of Murdoch University. He returned to Hong Kong in 2005 and served as an advisor to the Bauhinia Foundation Research Centre. Since then he has been active in the activities of the Centre, including spearheading two major public policy research projects, on governance and civic engagement in Hong Kong, and on the implications of the One Way Permit System on the future population of Hong Kong .

3917 4879

peterlai@hku.hk

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Professor Rosemary O'LEARY (J.D. Kansas; Ph.D. Syracuse), Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor of School of Public Affairs and Administration, The University of Kansas

Honorary Professor: Rosemary O'Leary is the Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at the University of Kansas, following a 24 year career teaching at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University-Bloomington. O'Leary is the author or editor of eleven books and more than 100 articles and book chapters on public management. She has won eleven national research awards and nine teaching awards. She is the 2014 winner of the Dwight Waldo award, given by the American Society for Public Administration for "persons who have made outstanding contributions to the professional literature of public administration over an extended career."   She is the only person to win three National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration awards for Best Dissertation (1989), Excellence in Teaching (1996) and Distinguished Research (2004).  An elected member of the National Academy of Public Administration, O’Leary was a senior Fulbright scholar in Malaysia and in the Philippines. In 2014 she was an Ian Axford Public Policy Scholar in New Zealand. From 2003 to 2005 O’Leary was a member of the NASA’s Return to Flight Task Group assembled in response to the Columbia space shuttle accident.  She also has served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, the International City/County Management Association, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Sciences.  Her current research is on collaboration as a management and leadership strategy.

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Professor Beryl A. RADIN (B.A. Antioch; M.A. Minnesota; Ph.D. Berkeley), Professor, Georgetown University

Honorary Professor: Beryl A. Radin is a member of the faculty at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute of Georgetown University in Washington, DC. An elected member of the National Academy of Public Administration, she was the Managing Editor of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory from 2000 to 2005. She is the Editor of the Georgetown University Press book series, Public Management and Change. Her government service included two years as a Special Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget of the US Department of Health and Human Services and other agencies.

Professor Radin has written a number of books and articles on public policy and public management issues. Much of her work has focused on policy analysis, intergovernmental relationships and federal management change. Her most recent books are the second edition of her book on policy analysis, Beyond Machiavelli: Policy Analysis Reaches Midlife, and Federal Management Reform In a World of Contradictions, both published by Georgetown University Press She has published nine other books and a wide range of articles.

Professor Radin has been a past president of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management and has been active in the public administration section of the American Political Science Association and the Public Management Research Association. She received the John Gaus award from the American Political Science Association in 2012 and the H. George Frederickson Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Public Management Research Association in 2009. She was the recipient of the 2002 Donald Stone Award given by the American Society for Public Administration’s section on intergovernmental management to recognize a scholar’s distinguished record. She was a senior Fulbright lecturer in India and has continued research in that country; she has also been involved in teaching and research in Hong Kong, Israel, Azerbaijan and Australia.

Professor Ian THYNNE (B.A., Ph.D. Wellington), Visiting Professor, The University of Hong Kong

Visiting Professor; Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; Honorary Associate Fellow, Centre for Civil Society and Governance, University of Hong Kong. BA, BA(Hons), PhD, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Taught and researched public governance, policy, administration and management in New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Singapore and Hong Kong. Co-editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration and Public Administration and Development.

3917 2389

thynne@hku.hk

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Professor Andrew WONG Ho-yuen 黃灝玄 (Bachelor in Business Management, CUHK), Adjunct Professor, The University of Hong Kong

Mr Andrew WONG joined the Hong Kong Government as an Administrative Officer in August 1982 and rose to the rank of Administrative Officer Staff Grade A1 in September 2006. He graduated with a Bachelor degree in business management from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1982 and undertook a post-graduate course in public administration at Oxford University in 1983.

Mr WONG has served in various bureaux and departments since joining the Hong Kong Government. He was Director of Administration from August 2000 to March 2004, and Special Representative for Hong Kong Economic and Trade Affairs to the European Communities from March 2004 to July 2005. He was appointed Permanent Secretary in the Chief Executive’s Office from August 2005 to January 2006, Permanent Secretary for the Civil Service from February 2006 to December 2010, Permanent Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Tourism from January 2011 to December 2014, and Permanent Secretary for Financial Services from December 2014 to August 2019.

whyand@hku.hk