Imagine Hong Kong

Wong Kam-sing

Secretary for the Environment, Hong Kong S.A.R. Government

Wong Kam-sing has been Secretary for the Environment of the Hong Kong S.A.R. Government since 2012. An architect by profession, he has been promoting the sustainable built environment since the 1990s. Mr. Wong served as Vice Chairman of the Hong Kong Green Building Council, Chairman of the Professional Green Building Council, Vice President of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects (HKIA), and Chairman of the HKIA Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development. Aside from various award-winning green building projects, he has contributed to the development of local standards and guidelines for the sustainable built environment. Under his leadership, the Environment Bureau of the Hong Kong S.A.R. Government has introduced a number of policy blueprints to establish the direction, targets and timeline for policies on air quality, waste management, biodiversity, energy and climate change. Mr. Wong graduated from The University of Hong Kong and conducted post-graduate research study on the sustainable built environment at the University of British Columbia.

Wang Tao

Chair Professor of Atmospheric Environment, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Wang Tao is Chair Professor of Atmospheric Environment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He previously was Research Fellow in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prof. Wang serves on a number of committees, including as Scientific Advisor to the Hong Kong Observatory, Founding Fellow and Board Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Qualified Environmental Professionals, and Member of the Air Science and Health Sub-Group of the Air Quality Objectives (AQO) Review Working Group, appointed by the Hong Kong S.A.R. Environment Bureau. Prof. Wang also serves as Vice Chair of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry China Working Group. He received a B.Sc. in Chemistry from Nankai University, did graduate course study in Environmental Chemistry at Peking University, and obtained a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Chemistry from Georgia Institute of Technology.

S. Alice Mong

Executive Director, Asia Society, Hong Kong Center

S. Alice Mong is Executive Director of Asia Society Hong Kong Center. Prior to this, she held several senior management positions in the non-profit sector in New York for over a decade. Ms. Mong was Director of the Museum of Chinese in America from 2009 to 2011, where she successfully transformed the museum from a New York Chinatown institution to a leading national museum. She was also Executive Director for the Committee of 100 in the United States, a Chinese-American non-profit membership organization founded by architect I.M. Pei and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Ms. Mong graduated from Ohio State University and holds an Executive M.B.A. from the Kellogg-Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Program.