Professor Ka Ho Mok is the Provost and Vice President (Academic & Research) of the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. He has conducted public / social policy research with particular reference to Contemporary China and East Asia. He has published extensively in public policy, public management and governance issues. He is named as a top scientist by Stanford and he ranks the first among scholars with highly cited works in "governance studies" among his peers in Chinese Mainland by ScholarGPS, an international research platform highlighting highly cited scholars globally.

Dr Hung received her PhD in East Asian Studies from the Australian National University. With a background training in Sociology, she is generally interested in issues on state-society relations in China and in particular the impacts on the everyday lived experience of the Chinese people. Her newest project looks at cross-border activities in the Pearl River Delta region, paying particular attention to the development and inner workings of a shadow economy. Her research papers have appeared in Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Gambling Studies, Social Indicators Research, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and Modern China, among others.