Professor Wong Kam Sing, GBS, JP, was a Principal Official of the fourth-term and fifth-term Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government from July 2012 to June 2022. He served as the Secretary for the Environment in two consecutive terms. During his 10-year tenure as the Secretary for the Environment, Wong launched a number of sustainability policy blueprints on climate actions, energy saving, clean air, popularisation of electric vehicles, waste reduction and recycling, and biodiversity, leading Hong Kong towards carbon neutrality before 2050.
Wong is an architect, and currently Distinguished Department of Architecture Fellow at The University of Hong Kong, Honorary Professor at Hong Kong Chu Hai College, and Chairman of Wu Zhi Qiao (Bridge to China) Charitable Foundation. He graduated from The University of Hong Kong, and further conducted postgraduate study on sustainable built environment at UBC, Canada. Since the 1990s, he has become a registered architect and developed expertise on sustainable architecture and research.