JESUIT EDUCATION FORUM 2020
17 Oct 2020 (Sat) 8:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Venue: Online
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BREAKOUT SESSION - SPEAKERS
BIOGRAPHY
Patricia CHAN
Anthony B.L. CHEUNG
Matthew CHU
Fr. Johnny C. GO
Kevin C.T. LAU
Sally LAW
Fr. Thomas LEUNG
P. Y. LEUNG
Y.L. SO
Mr. Kevin C.T. LAU (劉進圖先生)
LAU Chun To Kevin was born in 1965. He graduated from the Law Faculty of University of Hong Kong in 1987 with a law degree(LL.B) and a professional certificate of legal practice(P.C.LL.). He obtained a master of law degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1989. He began his journalistic career in 1989, working for a financial daily newspaper as political news reporter and column writer. He joined Ming Pao Daily News in 1995 and wrote editorial for the paper. He became the Chief Editor of Ming Pao on 1st Janurary 2012. He suffered a brutal attack in Feb. 2014 and was hospitalized for 5 months. He is currently the Creative Content Director of One Media Group, a subsidiary of the Ming Pao Group.
Miss Patricia CHAN (陳嘉詠小姐)
Clinical Psychologist
Wah Yan College (Kowloon & Hong Kong)
Patricia has a Bachelor of Laws (LLB), a Postgraduate Certificate of Law, and a Master Degree of Social Sciences (Clinical Psychology) from The University of Hong Kong. Patricia is a Clinical Psychologist and an Approved Counselling Supervisor in the Hong Kong Professional Counselling Association.
Patricia worked 4 years as a Corporate Clinical Psychologist at the Head Office of the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong and 10 years as a part-time Honorary Lecturer for the Master of Counselling programme at The University of Hong Kong. For the past decade, she has worked part-time at the two Wah Yan Colleges (Hong Kong and Kowloon) as the School Clinical Psychologist. Patricia has conducted workshops for schools, corporates and non-government organizations. Not only has Patricia been actively promoting emotional well-being and growth mindset among students and parents, she is compassionate in her working with individuals suffering from trauma and individuals with High Functioning Autism. Apart from Hong Kong, Patricia has also conducted staff development programmes in Beijing like Tsinghua University.
Professor Anthony B.L. CHEUNG (張炳良教授)
Professor Anthony B. L. Cheung, PhD, GBS, JP, is currently the Research Chair Professor of Public Administration at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) and Visiting Professor at the Institute for Public Policy of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
From July 2012 to June 2017, Professor Cheung was Secretary for Transport and Housing of the Hong Kong SAR Government and, in that capacity, Chairman of the Hong Kong Housing Authority, Chairman of the Hong Kong Maritime and Port Board, Chairman of the Hong Kong Logistics Development Council as well as board member of the Hong Kong Airport Authority and Mass Transit Railway Corporation. Prior to that, he was President of the Hong Kong Institute of Education (now EdUHK) (2008-12) and laid the foundation for the Institute’s subsequent retitling as university under an ‘Education-plus’ vision.
Professor Cheung graduated from The University of Hong Kong in 1974 with a BSocSc (Hon) degree in Sociology and Economics. He later obtained a MSc degree in Public Sector Management from the University of Aston, UK, and PhD degree in Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by Aston University in 2016 and an Honorary Doctorate of Education by EdUHK in 2017.
Professor Cheung joined the civil service in the 1970s. In 1986, he commenced his academic career at the City University of Hong Kong, where he subsequently became Professor and Head of the Department of Public and Social Administration. His research focused on governance, public administration and public policy, producing over 100 refereed journal articles and book chapters, several authored/edited books, as well as numerous conference papers. He co-founded the Asian Association of Public Administration in 2010 and had been its president.
Professor Cheung has been active in community and public service, having held major positions including: Non-Official Member of the Executive Council (2005-2012); Chairman of the Consumer Council (2007-2012); Chairman of the Pay Trend Survey Committee (2007); Board member of Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation (2007-17); Member of the Consultative Committee on the New Airport and Related Projects (1991-98); Member of the Task Force on Review of Civil Service Salaries and Conditions (2002); and Member of the ICAC Operations Review Committee (2005-07).
Professor was active in politics. During 1995-97, he was Member of the Legislative Council and Chairman of its Education Panel. He was chairman of the political group Meeting Point (1989-94) and a founding vice-chairman of the Democratic Party (1994-98). He was founding chairman of the independent think-tank SynergyNet in 2002.
Since stepping down from ministerial office, Professor Cheung he has been appointed since November 2017 as Chairman of the Committee on Self-financing Post-secondary Education, and Member of the Education Commission and University Grants Committee. He has chaired a government task force to review self-financing post-secondary education in 2017-18.
Dr. Matthew CHU (朱可達博士)
Educational Psychologist
Wah Yan College (Kowloon & Hong Kong)
Matthew has been serving as the Educational Psychologist at Wah Yan College since 2002. He is also teaching the postgraduate program in The University of Hong Kong (Faculty of Social Sciences). He is an Honorary Research Associate and a founding member of The Special Interest Group for Gifted Education, Creativity and Talent Development in The University of Hong Kong (Faculty of Education). He has presented his research projects at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, the International Congress of Psychology, and The Hong Kong Psychological Society. With his professional specialty in Mindfulness, Positive Psychology and Giftedness, he has been invited to conduct professional training programs for Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, Education Bureau, Social Welfare Department, The Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education, among others. Besides Hong Kong, he was invited to provide sharing sessions for students and staff as a visiting lecturer by The University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh and participate in an international research project.
Fr. Johnny C. GO, S.J., EdD
(吳彰義神父)
Johnny C. Go is the Director of the Science and Art of Learning and Teaching (SALT) Institute at Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines, concurrently serving as the Society of Jesus' Assistant for the Mission and Identity of Jesuit Schools and the Education Secretary for the Jesuit secondary and pre-secondary schools in Asia Pacific. After his term as the President of Xavier School from 2001 to 2013, he completed his doctorates in education in 2016 at the UCL Institute of Education, University of London, and the Singapore National Institute of Education at the Nanyang Technological University. He also teaches education and philosophy at the Ateneo de Manila University and the University of the Philippines. He has published several books in spirituality and education, the latest of which are Learning by Refraction: A Practitioner's Guide to 21st-Century Ignatian Pedagogy (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2019) and Religious Education from a Critical Realist Perspective: Sensus Fidei and Critical Thinking (Routledge, 2018).
Miss Sally LAW (羅家慧小姐)
Formation Officer of Xavier House Ignatian Spirituality Centre
Sally is Formation Officer of Xavier House Ignatian Spirituality Centre, she provides spiritual direction, delivers workshops and training of spiritual directors. Sally has received Bachelor of Social Science (Hons) in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Transpersonal Psychology in USA, and ARRUPE Program Certificate of Spiritual Direction in the Ignatian Tradition, she has completed the Master of Spiritual Direction in Jesuit College of Spirituality in Australia. She has also received training in Family Reconstruction Facilitation, Focusing (Level 4) and MBTI® Administrator Certification. Before her ministry in spiritual direction, she was a social worker providing individual and family counseling, service management and supervision, as well as staff development and training.
Fr. Thomas LEUNG, S.J. (梁宗溢神父)
Chaplain of Wah Yan College, Kowloon
Fr. Thomas Leung is an alumnus of Wah Yan College, Hong Kong in 1964. He was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1977. After that, he served as the spiritual director of Xavier Retreat House, Cheung Chau from 1977 to 1997. He then became the chaplain of Wah Yan College, Kowloon from 1997 till now. Throughout these years, Fr. Leung has ample experience in organising formation programmes for married couples and pre-marital couples, and those about personal growth and spirituality.
Dr P. Y. Leung (梁栢賢醫生)
Former Chief Executive, Hospital Authority
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
MBBS (NSW), M Sc (Occupational Medicine)(Singapore),
FFPH, FRACMA, FHKCCM, FHKAM (Community Medicine)
Dr Leung began his career in public health and administrative medicine in 1985. He was appointed Deputy Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene in 2000 and Deputy Director of Health in 2002 in the Department of Health of the Hong Kong SAR Government. He set up and became the first Controller of Centre for Health Protection in 2004. As Controller, he was responsible for disease prevention and control as well as public health emergency (including major infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics) planning and response in Hong Kong.
Dr Leung joined the Hong Kong Hospital Authority as Director of Quality and Safety in 2007 to lead, plan and launch initiatives to enhance quality, patient safety and risk management. He was appointed Chief Executive of the Hospital Authority in 2010 and retired in August 2019. He was responsible for the overall management of 43 public hospitals and other healthcare institutions, about 80,000 staff and an annual operating expenditure of over HK$70 billion.
Dr Leung is currently the Honorary Clinical Professor in the School of Public Health of the University of Hong Kong, and Honorary Professor in the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Dr. Y.L. SO (蘇英麟博士)
Director of the Centre for Jesuit Education
BSocSc, CertEd, AdvDipEd, MBA, PhD, AICPA, HKICPA
Dr So has extensive experience in business as well as in secondary and tertiary education.
He got his BSocSc (Economics and Political Science) at HKU where he subsequently enrolled in teacher training and obtained his CertEd and AdvDipEd. After switching his career to business, he got an MBA at CUHK and then qualifications as a professional accountant. In 1999, he obtained his PhD at HKU and his thesis centred on the relationship among culture, business practices, rationality, and institutional arrangements.
Dr So taught in WYHK for several years before he entered the commercial sector, first in publishing - where he was responsible for editorial as well as management functions - then in professional accounting and financial services. In 2001, he joined PolyU and Hong Kong Community College (HKCC) as a full-time academic and became the first recipient of the HKCC Outstanding Teaching Award. Dr So served HKCC in various positions including Deputy Director overseeing student development and Head of the Division of Business. After 12 years at PolyU, Dr So re-joined WYHK as the first alumnus to assume principalship of the school in 2013. He retired from the position in 2019 and became its Assistant Supervisor as well as the Founding Director of the Centre for Jesuit Education, Society of Jesus, Chinese Province.