The HKIEd management, headed by the President and the Vice Presidents, oversees the academic development, strategic planning and resource management of the Institute.

President
Professor Anthony B. L. Cheung, GBS, JP

Professor Anthony B. L. Cheung, GBS, JP is President of the Hong Kong Institute of Education, carrying the concurrent title of Chair Professor of Public Administration.

Professor Cheung received his PhD degree in Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, UK. He has written extensively on governance, privatization, civil service and public sector reforms, government and politics in Hong Kong and China, and Asian administrative reforms. His recent books are Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigm Shift or Business As Usual? (co-edited, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), and Public Service Reform in East Asia: Reform Issues and Challenges in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong (edited, Chinese University Press, 2005). He writes regular columns in the South China Morning Post, Ming Pao (in Chinese) and Hong Kong Economic Journal (in Chinese).

Professor Cheung is a Non-Official Member of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Chairman of the Consumer Council, Chairman of the Subsidized Housing Committee of the Housing Authority, member of the Greater Pearl River Delta Region Business Council, and member of the Board of Directors of The Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited.

Professor Cheung is the founding chairman of the policy think-tank SynergyNet and a founding director of the Hong Kong Policy Research Institute. He is a former Member of the Legislative Council (1995-97) and former Vice-Chairman of the Democratic Party (1994-1998).

Vice President (Academic) and Deputy to the President
Professor Lee Wing On, MH

Professor Lee Wing On, Chair Professor of Comparative Education, first joined HKIEd in 1998, having served as Founding Dean of the School of Foundations in Education, Head of Department of Educational Policy and Administration, Head of Department of Social Sciences, and Co-Head of Centre for Citizenship Education. In 2005, he was recruited by the University of Sydney to be Professor of Education at the Faculty of Education and Social Work and Director (International) at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Prior to his service at HKIEd, he had served as Associate Dean of Education, and Founding Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong.

Professor Lee is a world-renowned scholar in the fields of comparative education, citizenship education, and moral and values education. He has published over 20 books and 100 journal articles and book chapters. He has obtained research funding of over HK$20 million during his last 15 years of academic service in Hong Kong. He has been Visiting/Honorary Professor for a number of universities in the UK, the USA and Chinese Mainland. Lee has served as a consultant for World Bank and Asian Development Bank projects, and is at present a member of the International Advisory Board of Mongolian Education Alliance.  Within Hong Kong, he has served on various committees in Curriculum Development Council (CDC), Quality Education Fund (QEF), the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ), Central Policy Unit (CPU) and Education Commission (EC). In 2003, Lee received the Medal of Honour awarded by the Hong Kong Government. He was also awarded the Bronze Education Award and Education Innovation Award from the Educational Art Research Association and the Educational Development Forum in Beijing.

Vice President (Research and Development)
Professor Cheng Yin Cheong

Professor Cheng Yin Cheong, Chair Professor of Leadership and Change, joined the Institute in 1996. He is the immediate past President of the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA) that was established by 22 national and international organizations in 14 countries in the Asia-Pacific Region in 2001. Previously he was the Director of the Centre for Institutional Research and Development and the Head of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Education Leadership and School Quality of the Hong Kong Institute of Education. He had served as a full member of the University Grants Committee, a panel member of Research Grants Council, and a member of the Quality Education Fund Steering Committee of the Hong Kong SAR Government.

Professor Cheng holds a doctorate from Harvard University. He has had extensive experiences in both education and research. His research projects are mainly on education effectiveness, leadership, paradigm shift and school reform. Prof. Cheng has published 20 academic books and over 200 book chapters and journal articles internationally and regionally. Some of his publications have been translated into Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, Spanish, Czech, Thai and Persian languages. He is at present serving on the advisory boards of 15 international journals. He is also the associate editor of the International Journal of Educational Management (UK).

Professor Cheng’s research has won him a number of international awards and recognition including the Awards for Excellence from the Literati Network in UK in 1994, 1996-98, 2001, 2004-05 and 2008. He has been invited to provide consultancy services to national and international projects in Brunei Darussalam, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Korea, Mainland China, Netherlands, Macao, and Thailand. In these few years, Prof. Cheng has also been invited to give over 60 keynote/plenary presentations by national and international organizations

Vice President (Administration) and Secretary to Council
Mr Chris Mong Chan

Mr Chris Mong joined the Institute as Vice President (Administration) from 17 January 2007. In addition to serving as Secretary to Council, he has overall responsibilities for the administrative services of the Institute, including human resources, finance, estates and IT

Mr Mong graduated from Chung Chi College , the Chinese University of Hong Kong with BSc(Hons) and worked briefly as a computer programmer. He joined the Hong Kong Civil Service in 1971 initially as an Executive Officer. His last position was Chief Treasury Accountant when he left the Civil Service and went to Australia in 1984.

During his stay in Australia, Mr Mong worked in the electricity and construction industries. On his return to Hong Kong in 1992, he joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as Associate Director of Finance. In 1997, he joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as Director of Finance and from 2003 concurrently served as Associate Vice President of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Mr Mong had served as a Government representative on the Council of the then Hong Kong Society of Accountants and the Accountancy Training Board and is currently a member of the Board of Review (Inland Revenue Ordinance).

Associate Vice President (Quality Assurance)
Professor Kerry Kennedy

Prior to joining the Institute, Professor Kennedy had successively been Dean of Education at the University of Southern Queensland and Director of the Centre for Continuing Education at The Australian National University. While he has been at the Institute, he has been Head of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Dean of the Faculty of Professional and Early Childhood Education. Since 2001 he has won two Public Policy Research Grants, one Competitive Earmarked Research Grant, one General Research Fund Grant and one Quality Education Fund Grant.

Professor Kennedy works in the area of curriculum policy and theory with a special interest in citizenship education. He has published Changing Schools for Changing Times – New Directions for the School Curriculum in Hong Kong (Chinese University Press, 2005) and Changing Schools in Asia: Schools for the Knowledge Society (with Prof Lee Chi Kin) (Routledge, 2008). He is the General Editor of the Routledge Series on Schools and Schooling in Asia and of the Hong Kong Teacher Education Series (Hong Kong University Press). He is a Fellow of the Australian College of Education and a Life Member of the Australian Curriculum Studies Association.

Associate Vice President (Programme Development)
Professor Lam Chi Chung

Professor Lam Chi-chung, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, joined the Hong Kong Institute of Education in February 2008. He is currently the Dean of Students and Associate Vice President (Programme Development).

Before joining the Institute, he was a professor at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Lam received his Master’s degree on geographical education and doctoral degree in curriculum studies from the University of London Institute of Education.

In the past two decades, Professor Lam has been active in research work on the curriculum change and reform in Hong Kong. He has published over 60 refereed journal papers mostly on curriculum reform and implementation, geographical curriculum changes, mathematics curriculum and teachers’ beliefs. His two books, “All Are Educable” and “Road to Freedom”, both ethnographic reports of local schools, are popular among Hong Kong teachers and educators.

Associate Vice President (Research and Development)
Professor Dennis McInerney

Professor Dennis McInerney joined the Institute as Chair Professor of Educational Psychology in Department of Educational Psychology, Counselling and Learning Needs.

Prior to this he was Research Professor and Associate Dean (Education Research) at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore having served for a period as Vice-Dean (Research and Methodology) within the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice. Previous to this Professor McInerney was Research Professor and Associate Director of the Self Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney.

Professor McInerney has a BA from Macquarie University, a B. Ed and M. Ed (Hons) from the University of New England, and a PhD from the University of Sydney. He is a registered psychologist and a member of the Australian Psychological Association and the American Psychological Association.

Professor McInerney has published over 150 research articles in refereed journals and book chapters, edits two international research monographs and has written a number of textbooks including Educational Psychology: Constructing Learning (Pearson 4th Edition, 2006) which is a best selling educational psychology text in Australia; Developmental Psychology for Teachers (Allen & Unwin, 2006); Helping Kids Achieve Their Best: Understanding and Using Motivation in the Classroom (Information Age Publishing, 2005), and Publishing Your Psychology Research (Sage and Allen & Unwin, 2001).

Associate Vice President (Graduate Studies)
Professor Lo Sing Kai

Professor Lo Sing Kai was previously Associate Dean of Research at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia; and a Professor (Personal Chair) attached to the School of Health and Social Development. He was also overseeing the Higher Degree by Research Program in the Health Faculty and coordinating research collaborations with China.

He has a solid track record in securing research incomes; and has published more than 180 articles, mainly in journals with high impact factors. He has a strong background in capacity building; and is particularly experienced in providing mentorship services to early and mid-career researchers, some of them not in his areas of research which include evidence-based methodologies, social and personal wellbeing, and the management of personal health among school students.