Prof. Landry’s undergraduate training was in economics and law at Sciences-Po in Paris. He received his Ph.D in Political Science at the University of Michigan and am also an alumnus of the University of Virginia (MA in Foreign Affairs) and the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University program at the Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing.

Prof. Landry’s research interests focus on Asian and Chinese politics, comparative local government, quantitative comparative analysis and survey research. He have written on governance and the political management of officials in China. Besides articles and book chapters in comparative politics and political methodology, he is the author of “Decentralized Authoritarianism in China” with Cambridge University Press (2008). He is also the co-investigator of the Barometer on China’s Development (BOCD) at the Universities Service Centre for China Studies (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and also serve on the international advisory committee of the Centre.

Personal Website: https://pierreflandry.wordpress.com/

Professor Angela Leung graduated with first class honors in the Bachelor of Social Sciences from the University of Hong Kong and was one of the three recipients in Hong Kong for being awarded the HSBC scholarship for a one-year exchange at the University of Chicago. Her overseas experience motivated her to specialize in the study of culture when pursuing her doctoral degree. She received her Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2007. Her publications have appeared on top-tier journals including American Psychologist, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Journal of Environmental Psychology.  She has an H-index of 35, with total citation counts of 7,791 (Google Scholar, 2025).  Professor Leung has edited two books on the psychological science of culture: Cultural processes: A social psychological perspective published by the Cambridge University Press in 2010 and Handbook of culture and creativity: Basic processes and applied innovations published by the Oxford University Press in 2018.

Professor Leung has served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology and Associate Editor of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. She is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Management and Organization Review, and British Journal of Social Psychology. She has received numerous awards, including the Best Paper Award (International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing, 2020), the Seisoh Sukemune/Bruce Bain Encouragement of Early Career Research Award (International Council of Psychologists, 2013), Lee Kong Chian Fellowship (SMU, 2018-2020), Lee Foundation Fellowship (SMU, 2009), the Award for Research Excellence (SMU, 2009), and the first honorable mention for the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Prize (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 2009).

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Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=c1dydJIAAAAJ&hl=en

Her research examines how complex, contradictory, and challenging issues can be transformed into opportunities so that people and society can thrive. Her research topics include multiculturalism and creativity, cosmopolitanism and globalization, paradox management, working motherhood, environmental psychology, and sustainable living. Together, this program of research offers novel understanding of how our mindset makes sense of personal and societal challenges, and the downstream differential consequences of being impaired versus enriched by the accompanying conflicts and tensions.

Carlos Wing-Hung Lo is a Professor in the School of Governance and Policy Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He obtained his PhD degree from the Flinders University of South Australia in 1990 and received a doctor of law degree from the Renmin University of China in 2001. He was visiting fellow in the Centre for Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 1993, and was visiting scholar in the School of Public Administration at the University of Southern California in 1994 and 2008, as well as in the Harvard China Project at the Harvard University and the East West Centre of University of Hawaii in 2008. His main research interests are in the areas of law and government, environmental management, public sector management, and corporate social and environmental responsibility, within the contexts of China and Hong Kong. Recently, Prof. Lo has offered consultant services and organized management training programs for public and business sectors. He is the coauthor of Institutions, Regulatory Styles, Society and Environmental Governance in China and the author of China’s Legal Awakening: Legal Theory and Criminal Justice in Deng’s Era. His works have appeared in leading international academic journals including Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Regulation & Governance, Law and Policy, Environment and Planning A, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Administration and Society, American Journal of Comparative Law, Journal of Public Policy, World Development, and The China Quarterly.

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PC Chow received his PhD from the London School of Economic and Political Science (LSE) in political philosophy in 2006.
 
He obtained his first degree in philosophy at CUHK and an MA in political theory at York. He has written several books on political philosophy, including the recently published Politics of Liberal Equality and Political Morality: from a Liberal Point of View.
 
His current research focuses on left-liberalism, political legitimacy, and the moral issues of freedom and equality. He is the editorial member of Twenty-First Century Bimonthly and Reflexion.

Editorship

• Editorial Committee, Twenty-First Century Bimonthly (2010-current)
• Editorial Committee, Reflexion (2010-current)
• Editorial Board, Fu Dan Political Philosophy Review (2009-current)
• Editorial Board, Texts of Contemporary Western Political Philosophy (2008-current)

University

• Member, Steering Committee for Promoting Personal Development through Social and Civic Engagement (2010-current)
• Chairman, Committee on University Lecture on Civility (2010-2014)
• Cabinet Member, Wu Yee Sun College (2011-current)
• Elected Member, Faculty Board of Social Science (2015-2017)

Vivian Zhan is a Professor in the School of Governance and Policy Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her BA in English and International Studies from Foreign Affairs College of China, and her PhD in political science from University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests span comparative political economy, contemporary Chinese politics, and research methodology, with a focus on post-Mao reforms, intergovernmental relations, local governance, and development studies. She is also interested in informal institutions and their impact on political and economic behaviours.

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Social Science Research Network: http://ssrn.com/author=1320905

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jing_Zhan6

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=mC1hWEYAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN

• Comparative Politics
• Chinese Politics
• Research Methodology
• Formal and Informal Institutions
• Development Studies
• Corruption

Prof LI Chen is Associate Professor and Associate Director at the Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is also Research Fellow (by courtesy) at CUHK’s Lau Chor Tak Institute of Global Economics and Finance (IGEF), Associate Professor (by courtesy) at CUHK’s School of Governance and Policy Science, and Non-resident Fellow at the Institute for International Affairs (IIA) at CUHK (Shenzhen). He has researched, written and taught on a wide range of issues in China’s political economy, development strategy, public policy, and business environment in the global context, such as China’s state-owned-enterprise reform, financial governance, government-business relations, and industrial & regional development policies. He received his PhD and MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge and Dual Bachelor degrees of Law (International Political Economy) and Economics from Peking University. He has been frequently interviewed by international and local media, with views quoted by Fortune, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Lianhe Zaobao (Singapore) and South China Morning Post, among others. He also regularly contributes opinion pieces to China Daily.

B.S.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Ph.D.
Northwestern University

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• Wood, D., Qiu, L., Lu, J., Lin, H., & Tov., W. (2018). Adjusting Bilingual Ratings by Retest Reliability Improves Estimation of Translation Quality. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 49(9), 1325-1339.
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PhD (University of California Irvine)

MA (University of California Irvine)

JD (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law)

BA (New York University)

William Smith graduated with a BA (First Class Hons.) in English Studies from the University of East Anglia (UK). After a brief stint working for a law firm in London, he carried out all of his postgraduate education at the University of Warwick (UK). He achieved an MA (with Distinction) in Politics, before successfully completing his PhD on the philosophy of civil disobedience under the supervision of Professor Susan Hurley (Politics) and Professor Robert Fine (Sociology). Prior to taking up his current position at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Warwick and the University of Dundee (UK). In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his young family, listening to test match cricket and revisiting his childhood love of Doctor Who.

• ‘Democratic Disruptions: Towards a Deliberative Theory of Direct Action’, RGC Ref. No. CUHK14409814, Research Grants Council (RGC), General Research Fund (GRF), 2014-15, Budget: $296,850.
• ‘International Partnerships Development Programme’, (OAL, CUHK), 2014-15
• ‘Research Excellence Award’, (CUHK), 2013-14
• ‘Law Interrupted: A Study of Legislative Disruption in Hong Kong’, Direct Grant (CUHK), 2012-13, Budget: $35,000.