Professor Yin Cheong CHENG is the Acting Vice President (Research and Development) and Director of the Centre for Institutional Research and Development of the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd). He is also Head of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Education Leadership and School Quality. He is the 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. 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. Previously, he was the associate director of the Hong Kong Institute of Educational Research and professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Policy of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Prof. Cheng holds a doctorate from Harvard University. He has had extensive experiences in both education and research as a teacher, vice-principal, consultant, and researcher. He has undertaken a number of research projects on education effectiveness, leadership development, education quality, and school management reform with the support of Competitive Earmarked Research Grants from the Research Grants Council. Prof. Cheng has published 18 books and nearly 200 book chapters and academic journal articles in Australia, Hong Kong, Korea, Mainland, Netherlands, Germany, Slovenia, Israel, Taiwan, Thailand, USA, and UK. Some of his publications have been translated into Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, Spanish, Czech, Thai and Persian languages. Recently, he published a new book “A new paradigm for reengineering education: Globalization, localization and individualization” ( 2005 , Springer) that includes 22 chapters and over 500 pages representing his latest research in this area. He was the editor in chief of the Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education and Development (1998-2003). He is at present serving on the advisory boards of 13 international journals. He is also the associate editor of the International Journal of Educational Management ( UK ).

Prof. Cheng's research has won him a number of international awards and recognition including the Awards for Excellence from the Literati Club in UK in 1994, 1996-98, 2001, 2004 and 2005. In 1999, he was awarded as the Fellow of the Hong Kong Educational Research Association. He has served as panel member, researcher, consultant, external examiner or reviewer of local and international universities and research institutions. In these few years, Prof. Cheng has also been invited to give nearly 60 keynote/plenary presentations by national and international organizations such as APEC, UNESCO, UNICEF, ICER, ICSEI (Australia, Hong Kong, Canada, & China), International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), Ford Foundation (US, Africa), World Bank, SEAMEO RIHED (with Chulalongkorn University), NIEPA and NCERT (India), ONEC/OEC (Thailand), ACEA (Australia), NIER (Japan), Ministry of Education of Israel, Ministry of Education of Malaysia (with University of Malaya), iAPED (Korea), Scandinavian-Pacific Conference (Sweden), International Seminar (Erfurt, Germany), ICTED (Philippine), International Society of Teacher Education, Singapore Educational Research Association, Japanese Society for the Studies on Teacher Education, and Chinese Educational Research Association (Taiwan).

Prof. Cheng has very fruitful experiences in organizing and conducting leadership development programmes, seminars and workshops for local and international principals and education leaders particularly to implement educational reforms in the past decades. He has been very interested in watercolor painting since the end of 1960 s and had two invited personal exhibitions in 2001 and 2005 (2005 : http://www.ied.edu.hk/apcelsq/new/watercolor05/index.htm 2001:   http://www.ied.edu.hk/apcelsq/new/watercolor/index.htm ) . He was invited by the Hong Kong Museum of Art to conduct art seminars.

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