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Associate Professor
Programme Director of MPA
Associate Professor
Programme Director of MPA
(B.A., MPhil., HKU; Ph.D., Indiana)
Comparative politics,
authoritarianism,
comparative public policy,
and institutional analysis
Senior Lecturer
Deputy Director of MPA
Senior Lecturer
Deputy director of MPA
(LL.B., LL.M., PKU; Ph.D., HKU)
Chinese politics,
public governance and management,
institutional analysis,
coordination and collaboration,
comparative public policy,
and state-society relations
The MPA programme is taught by faculty members from HKU’s Department of Politics and Public Administration. They are actively engaged in teaching, research, and service.
Visiting Professor
Visiting Professor
(Ph.D., University of Rochester)
American politics, representation, and scientific research policy
Emeritus Professor and Honorary Professor
Emeritus Professor and Honorary Professor
(B.A., St. Olaf; B.A., M.A., Oxford; Ph.D., Columbia)
Politics and public administration of China, including Hong Kong; public sector human resource management
Associate Professor
Programme Director of MPA
Associate Professor
Programme director of MPA
(B.A., MPhil., HKU; Ph.D., Indiana)
Comparative politics,
authoritarianism,
comparative public policy,
and institutional analysis
Honorary Lecturer
Honorary Lecturer
(MPA, DPA candidate, HKU),
(Partner, The Asia Group)
Public policy and public administration,
Digital economy,
Social media,
US-China-Taiwan geopolitics,
Central Asia and Mongolia
Honorary Professor
Honorary Professor
(B.S.Sc, CUHK; M.A., Indiana; Ph.D., Washington.)
Public policy; civic engagement;
intergovernmental relations;
the policy process in Hong Kong and Mainland China;
relations between Hong Kong and Mainland China;
cross-boundary cooperation between Hong Kong and south China
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
(B.A., & B.S., Wuhan; MSc., London School of Economics and Political Science; Peking U. Ph.D., Rutgers)
Social equity,
Diversity Management,
Public Personnel Management,
Environmental Policy,
Nonprofit Management
Adjunct Professor
Adjunct Professor (Former Director-General of Trade, ICAC Commissioner, Permanent Secretary for the Treasury, The Ombudsman)
(B.A., MSoc.Sc., HKU)
Public administration and management in Hong Kong
Adjunct Professor
Adjunct Professor (Former Permanent Secretary for the Civil Service)
(B.Soc.Sc.CUHK; MSx Stanford)
Public administration and human resource management in Hong Kong
Associate Professor
Associate Pofessor
(B.A., M.A., Remin; Ph.D., USC)
Public management,
organization theory,
civil society and governance,
environmental governance
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
(B.A., Remin. MPA, Columbia, Ph.D., Indiana)
Environmental Policy,
Environmental Attitudes and Opinions,
Regulation,
Information Disclosure,
Citizen-state Interactions
Adjunct Professor
Adjunct Professor
(B. Soc. Sc., HKU; MPA, Harvard)
(Former Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs and Secretary for the Civil Service)
Politics,
public administration and management in Hong Kong
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
(B.A. & M.P.A., Sungkyunkwan; M.P.A., Texas A&M; Ph.D., American U.)
Bureaucratic politics,
Public management,
Rulemaking,
Representative bureaucracy
Visiting Professor
Visiting Professor
(Ph.D., University of Rochester)
Theory of institutions, game theory and applied mathematical modeling
Visiting Professor
Visiting Professor
(B.A., B.A. (Hon.), Ph.D. Wellington)
Public governance,
public-private mixes,
and organisational transformation
Senior Lecturer
Deputy Director of MPA
Senior Lecturer
Deputy director of MPA
(LL.B., LL.M., PKU; Ph.D., HKU)
Chinese politics,
public governance and management,
institutional analysis,
coordination and collaboration,
comparative public policy,
and state-society relations
Adjunct Professor
Adjunct Professor (former Secretary for the Environment)
(BA(AS) & BArch HKU; MASA UBC)
Politics,
public administration and management in Hong Kong
In addition to our own staff, distinguished international scholars and practitioners are invited to give guest lectures and especially to be involved in POLI 8017 Workshop in Public Affairs, which is explicitly international in focus.
- Professor, Department of Political Science
- University of California, Berkeley
- Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy
- University of California Berkeley
- Professor, Department of Political Science
- Leiden University
- Editor-in-Chief, Asian Journal of Political Science
- Deputy Editor, International Review of Administrative Sciences
- Department of Political Science
- National University of Singapore
- Founding Dean, College of Community and Public Affairs
- Binghamton University
- J.J. "Jake" Pickle Regents Chair in Congressional Studies
- Department of Government
- The University of Texas at Austin
- Professor in Political Science
- University of Geneva
- Donald R. Matthews Distinguished Professor of American Politics
- Department of Political Science
- University of Washington
- Director of the School of Government and Public Policy
- Providence Service Corporation Chair in Public Management
- University of Arizona
- Director, General Recruitment Priorities
- Resourcing and Learning Branch
- Public Service Commission of Canada
- Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs & Administration
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- The University of Kansas
- Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences
- Arthur F Bentley Professor
- Department of Political Science
- Indiana University, Bloomington
- Professor Emeritus
- School of Public and Environmental Affairs
- Indiana University, Bloomington
- Distinguished Professor and Chancellor’s Professor
- School of Public and Environmental Affairs
- Indiana University, Bloomington
- Maurice Falk Professor of American Government
- Department of Political Science
- University of Pittsburgh
- Adjunct Professor
- McCourt School of Public Policy (MSPP)
- Georgetown University
- Professor Emeritus of Social Policy
- Department of Urban Studies and Planning
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Associate Professor and Chair of the School’s Leadership & Management Area
- Humphrey School of Public Affairs
- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- Merit Commissioner
- Province of British Columbia
- The Government of Canada
- Director General, Executive Programs
- Public Service Commission of Canada
- Professor
- Department of Public Administration
- California State University San Bernardino
- Professor Emeritus
- Center for Public Administration and Policy
- Virginia Tech
- Professor Emeritus
- ANZSOG Institute for Governance
- University of Canberra
- J.D. Story Professor of Public Administration
- Department of Government
- University of Queensland
