
Panelists

	Professor Ian Holliday (何立仁教授) MA Cantab; MPhil, DPhil Oxon. Dean of Social Sciences The University of Hong Kong

Ian Holliday is Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at The University of Hong Kong. Previously, he served as Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at City University of Hong Kong, and taught at the University of Manchester and New York University. Ian was educated at the University of Oxford (DPhil, MPhil) and the University of Cambridge (MA, BA). His current research interests focus on Myanmar, and embrace problems of political reform inside the country, and human security challenges facing migrants outside the country. Ian was a founding editor of the journal Party Politics, and is the relaunch editor of the journal Contemporary Politics. His most recent book is Burma Redux: Global Justice and the Quest for Political Reform in Myanmar (2011).

	Professor Joseph Chan (陳祖為教授) BSocSc(CUHK), MSc(LSE), DPhil(Oxford) Head of Department of Politics and Public Administration The University of Hong Kong

Professor Joseph Chan is Head of Department of Politics and Public Administration. He obtained his undergraduate degree in political science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, his M.Sc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and his D.Phil. from Oxford University. He teaches political theory and researches in the areas of contemporary liberalism and perfectionism, Confucian political philosophy, human rights, and civil society. He was a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University in 1999-2000, Head of Department from 2002-2004, and Founding Director of the Centre for Civil Society and Governance, Faculty of Social Sciences from 2003-2009. He is Deputy Chairman of the University's Common Core Curriculum Committee and a member of the University's Steering Committee on the 4-year Undergraduate Curriculum.

	Mr Frank Ching (秦家驄先生) Writer and Commentator

Frank Ching is a journalist and writer who has reported and commented on events in Asia, particularly China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, for many years. He worked for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review. He opened The Wall Street Journal's bureau in China in 1979, after the normalization of US-China relations, thus becoming one of the first four American newspaper reporters to be based in Beijing since 1949. His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, World Policy Journal, China Quarterly, Current History, Washington Quarterly, and other publications. Currently, in addition to weekly commentaries, he is also Adjunct Associate Professor with both the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. At the Chinese University, he teaches Taiwan-Mainland Relations and US-China Relations. At the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, he teaches MBA students about China's external relations. He is the author of ANCESTORS: 900 Years in the Life of a Chinese Family, (Morrow, NY 1988). Using his own family as a vehicle, he presented a history of China from the Sung dynasty to the present. He is also the author of Hong Kong and China: For Better or For Worse, published jointly by the Asia Society and the Foreign Policy Association in New York and The Li Dynasty: Hong Kong Aristocrats, published by Oxford University Press. He has given speeches across the United States, including delivering the Inaugural Lecture of the Ravenholt-Severyns Lecture at the University of Washington. He was the inaugural lunch speaker at the annual Chiefs of Defense Mission sponsored by the Commander in Chief, Pacific, in Honolulu. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Fordham University, a master's degree in philosophy from New York University and a Certificate in Advanced International Reporting from Columbia University as a Ford Foundation Fellow.