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學術履歷

• 香港教育學院校長(2008年1月起)
• 香港城市大學公共及社會行政學系前教授、前系主任
• 香港城市大學亞洲管治研究中心前副主任

公職

現任

• 行政會議成員
• 消費者委員會主席
• 房屋委員會資助房屋小組委員會主席
• 大珠三角商務委員會委員
• 香港按揭證券有限公司董事
• 選舉委員會委員 (高等教育界)

• 立法局議員 (1995-1997)
• 公務員薪俸及服務條件常務委員會成員
• 公務員薪酬調整機制督導委員會成員
• 薪酬趨勢調查委員會主席
• 廉政公署審查貪污舉報諮詢委員會委員

學歷

• 英國倫敦經濟及政治學院哲學博士 (政府學系) (1995)
• 英國艾斯頓大學科學碩士 (公共管理) (1984)
• 香港大學社會科學榮譽學士 (經濟學與社會學) (1974)

社會活動

政策研究

• 香港政策研究所創會董事
• 新力量網絡創會主席(2002-2005)、現任理事

• 西九龍民間評審聯席會議前成員

• 香港核心價值宣言發起人(2004)
• 香港社會服務聯會執委會成員(2004-2006)

近年著作

著書:

• Public Service Reform in East Asia: Reform Issues and Challenges in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong (edited), Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, January 2005
• Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigm Shift or Business As Usual. (Co-edited with Ian Scott). London: RoutledgeCurzon, 349 pp. January 2003
• Public Sector Reform in Hong Kong: Into the 21st Century. (Co-edited with Jane Lee). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, November 2001

中文著作:

• "變與不變:危機與轉型下的管治之道" (香港:進一步多媒體, 2001)
• "公共管治策略:特區八年政策得失" (香港:CUP出版社, 2006)
• "管治香港的難題:回歸10年反思" (香港:進一步多媒體, 2007)

篇章:

• "The Hong Kong System under One Country Being Tested: Article 23, Governance Crisis and the Quest for A New Hong Kong Identity", in Joseph Cheng (ed) The July 1 Protest Rally: Interpreting a Historic Event, Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, November 2005, pp. 33-70.
• "State Capacity in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan: Coping with Legitimation, Integration and Performance", in Jon Pierre and Martin Painter (eds) Challenges to State Policy Capacity: Global Trends and Comparative Perspectives, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, January 2005, pp. 225-54.
• "Civil Service Pay Reform in Hong Kong: Principles, Politics and Paradoxes", in Anthony B. L. Cheung (ed) Public Service Reform in East Asia: Reform Issues and Challenges in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, January 2005, pp. 157-92.
• "Introduction", in Anthony B. L. Cheung (ed) Public Service Reform in East Asia: Reform Issues and Challenges in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, January 2005, pp.1-18.
• "The Politics of International Policy Learning in Public Administration: Limits of Interdependence and Convergence under Globalization", in A. Farazmand (eds) Sound Governance: Policy and Administrative Innovations, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, December 2004, pp. 57-73.
• "Public Sector Reform in Hong Kong and Singapore: Reform Trajectories and Explanations", in Akira Nakamura (ed) Comparative Studies of Public Administration VIII: Public Reform, Policy Change, and New Public Management – From the Asia and Pacific Perspective, EROPA (Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration) Local Government Center, Tokyo, Japan, March 2004, pp. 1-28.
• "Health Finance", in Linda Wong, Lynn White and Gui Shixun (eds) Social Policy Reform in Hong Kong and Shanghai: A Tale of Two Cities, Armonk, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, February 2004, pp. 23-52.
• "Political Participation" in Y. M. Yeung and K. Y. Wong (eds) Fifty Years of Public Housing in Hong Kong: A Golden Jubilee Review and Appraisal, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, December 2003. pp. 207-34. [With separate Chinese edition]
• "The Civil Service and Political Reform", in Christine Loh & Civic Exchange (ed) Building Democracy: Creating Good Government for Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, September 2003, pp. 71-83.
• "Hong Kong's Healthcare Policy (香港醫療政策研究)", in Gui Shixun and Linda Wong (eds): A Comparative Study of Social Policy in Shanghai and Hong Kong (上海與香港社會政策比較研究), Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, April 2003, pp. 166-87.
• "Public Service Reform in Singapore: Reinventing Government in a Global Age", in Anthony Cheung and Ian Scott (eds) Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigm Shifts or Business As Usual?, London: RoutledgeCurzon, January 2003, pp. 138-62.
• "Government Reinvention in Taiwan: Administrative Modernization and Regime Transition", in Anthony Cheung and Ian Scott (eds) Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigm Shifts or Business As Usual?, London: RoutledgeCurzon, January 2003, pp. 90-116.
• "Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigms, Paradoxes and Dilemmas" (with Ian Scott), in Anthony Cheung and Ian Scott (eds) Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigm Shifts or Business As Usual?, London: RoutledgeCurzon, January 2003, pp. 1-24.
• "Transformation of the Civil Service System", in M. K. Chan and A. Y. So (eds) Crisis and Transformation in China’s Hong Kong, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, August 2002, pp. 166-88.
• "The Changing Political System: Executive-led Government or ‘Disabled’ Governance?", in S. K Lau (ed) The First Tung Chee-hwa Administration: The First Five Years of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, July 2002, pp. 41-68.
• "The Politics of New Public Management: Some Experience from Reforms in East Asia", in Kate McLaughlin, Stephen Osborne and Ewan Ferlie (eds) The New Public Management: Current Trends and Future Prospects, London: Routledge, February 2002, pp. 243-73.
• "Health Policy Reform", chapter in L Wong and N Flynn (eds) The Market in Chinese Social Policy, Hampshire: Palgrave, June 2001, pp. 63-87.
• "Between Autonomy and Accountability: Hong Kong’s Senior Civil Servants in Search of an Identity", chapter in R Chapman (ed) Ethics in Public Service for the New Millennium, Aldershot: Ashgate, August 2000, pp 185-202. [With translation in Czech and Albanian published in 2003 and 2004 respectively]
• "Social Conflicts: 1975-1986". (With K S Louie) Chapter in S K Lau (ed) Social Development and Political Change in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, March 2000, pp 63-114. (Contribution: 50%)

學術期刊:

• "Combating Corruption as a Political Strategy to Rebuild Trust and Legitimacy: Can China Learn from Hong Kong?", for International Public Management Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, October 2007, pp. 48-71.
• "Policy Capacity in Post-1997 Hong Kong: Constrained Institutions Facing a Crowding and Differentiated Polity" , The Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 29, No. 1, June 2007, pp. 51-75.
• "Executive-led Governance or Executive Power 'Hollowed-Out' – The Political Quagmire of Hong Kong" , Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 15, No. 1, April 2007, pp. 17-38.
• "Judicial Review and Policy Making in Hong Kong: Changing Interface between the Legal and the Political" (jointly with Max W. L. Wong), The Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 28, No. 2, December 2006, pp. 117-41.
• "How Autonomous are Public Corporations in Hong Kong? The Case of the Airport Authority", Public Organization Review: A Global Journal, Vol. 6, September 2006, pp. 221-36.
• "Reinventing Hong Kong’s Public Service: Same NPM Reform, Different Contexts and Politics", International Journal of Organizational Theory & Behaviour, Vol. 9, No. 2, Summer 2006, pp. 212-34.
• "Budgetary Reforms in the Two City States: Impact on Central Budget Agency in Hong Kong and Singapore", International Review of Administrative Sciences, Vol. 72, No. 3, September 2006, pp. 341-61.
• "Bureaucrats-Enterprise Negotiation in China’s Enterprise Reform at the Local Level: Case Studies in Guangzhou", Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 14, No. 45, 2005, pp. 695-720.
• "Whose Reason? Which Rationality? Understanding the ‘Real Worlds’ of Hong Kong’s Public Managers" (with Brian Brewer and Julia Tao), Philosophy of Management (formerly Reason in Practice), Vol. 5 No. 1, 2005, pp. 3-14
• "What’s in a Pamphlet? – Shortfalls and Paradoxical Flaws in Hong Kong’s Performance Pledges", Public Management Review (UK), Vol. 7, No. 3, September, 2005, pp. 341-66.
• "The Politics of Administrative Reforms in Asia: Paradigms and Legacies, Paths and Diversities", Governance, Vol. 18, No. 2, April 2005, pp. 257-82.
• "Hong Kong’s Post-1997 Institutional Crisis: Problems of Governance and Institutional Incompatibility", Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, January-April 2005, pp. 135-67.
• "Who Advised the Hong Kong Government? The Politics of Absorption before and after 1997" (with Paul C. W. Wong), Asian Survey, Vol. 44, No. 6, November/December 2004, pp. 874-94.
• "Strong Executive, Weak Policy Capacity: The Changing Environment of Policymaking in Hong Kong", The Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 12, No. 1, June 2004, pp. 1-30.
• "Customizing the Tenants, Empowering the Managers: Impact of Public Housing Governance Reform in Hong Kong" (with N. M. Yip), Housing, Theory and Society, Vol. 20, No. 2, June 2003, pp.98-109.
• "Health Finance", The Chinese Economy (with Gu Xingyuan), Vol. 35, No. 6, November-December 2002, pp. 34-67.
• "Citizenship: Re-building of Trust between the Government and the Public", Journal of Youth Studies, Vol. 6, No 1, January 2003 (in Chinese), pp 56-62.
• "Modernizing Public Healthcare Governance in Hong Kong: A Case Study of Professional Power in New Public Management", Public Management Review, Vol. 4, No. 3, September 2002, pp. 343-65.
• "The Paradox of China’s Wage System Reforms: Balancing Stakeholders’ Rationalities" (with Kitty Poon) Public Administration Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 4, Winter 2000 [printed in early 2002], pp. 491-521
• "Public Enterprises and Privatization in East Asia: Paths, Politics and Prospects" Public Finance and Management, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 2002,, pp. 67-96.
• "The New Two-Pronged Strategy of Enterprise Reform in China", (With Ma Ngok and Mok Ka-ho), Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 48, No. 5, September/October 2001, pp. 52-61
• "Civil Service Reform in Post-1997 Hong Kong: Political Challenges, Managerial Responses", International Journal of Public Administration, Vol.24, No.9, August 2001, pp. 929-50.
• "Globalization versus Asian Values: Alternative Paradigms in Understanding Governance and Administration", Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 8, No. 2, December 2000, pp. 1-16.
• "The Formation of Leaders in Party Politics: The Limitations in Hong Kong", Journal of Youth Studies, Vol 3, No 2, July 2000 (in Chinese), pp 29-35.
• "New Interventionism in the Making: Interpreting State Interventions in Hong Kong after the Change of Sovereignty", Journal of Contemporary China, Vol 9, No 24, July 2000, pp 291-308.

• President, The Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Former Professor and former Head, Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong
• Former Associate Director, Govermance in Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong

Public Service

Current

• Member, Executive Council
• Chairman, Consumer Council
• Chairman, Subsidized Housing Committee, Hong Kong Housing Authority
• Member, Greater Pearl River Delta Region Business Council
• Director, The Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited
• Member (Higher Education Sub-Sector), Election Committee, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

• Member, Legislative Council (1995-1997)
• Member, Standing Commission on Civil Service Salaries and Conditions of Service
• Member, Steering Committee on Civil Service Pay Adjustment Mechanism
• Chairman, Pay Trend Survey Committee
• Member, ICAC Operations Review Committee

Qualifications

• PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, UK (Government) (1995)
• M Sc, University of Aston, UK (Public Sector Management) (1983)
• B Soc Sc (Hons), University of Hong Kong (Sociology and Economics) (1974)

Community Service

Policy Research

• Founding Director, Hong Kong Policy Research Institute
• Founding Chairman (2002-2005) and current Director, SynergyNet - a policy think-tank

• Former Member, People's Panel on West Kowloon

• Founder, Hong Kong Core Values Declaration (2004)
• Member, Executive Committee of Hong Kong Council of Social Service (2004-2006)

Recent Publications

Books:

• Public Service Reform in East Asia: Reform Issues and Challenges in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong (edited), Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, January 2005
• Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigm Shift or Business As Usual. (Co-edited with Ian Scott). London: RoutledgeCurzon, 349 pp. January 2003
• Public Sector Reform in Hong Kong: Into the 21st Century. (Co-edited with Jane Lee). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, November 2001

Books in Chinese:

• "變與不變:危機與轉型下的管治之道" (香港:進一步多媒體, 2001)
• "公共管治策略:特區八年政策得失" (香港:CUP出版社, 2006)
• "管治香港的難題:回歸10年反思" (香港:進一步多媒體, 2007)

Book chapters in edited books:

• "The Hong Kong System under One Country Being Tested: Article 23, Governance Crisis and the Quest for A New Hong Kong Identity", in Joseph Cheng (ed) The July 1 Protest Rally: Interpreting a Historic Event, Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, November 2005, pp. 33-70.
• "State Capacity in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan: Coping with Legitimation, Integration and Performance", in Jon Pierre and Martin Painter (eds) Challenges to State Policy Capacity: Global Trends and Comparative Perspectives, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, January 2005, pp. 225-54.
• "Civil Service Pay Reform in Hong Kong: Principles, Politics and Paradoxes", in Anthony B. L. Cheung (ed) Public Service Reform in East Asia: Reform Issues and Challenges in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, January 2005, pp. 157-92.
• "Introduction", in Anthony B. L. Cheung (ed) Public Service Reform in East Asia: Reform Issues and Challenges in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, January 2005, pp.1-18.
• "The Politics of International Policy Learning in Public Administration: Limits of Interdependence and Convergence under Globalization", in A. Farazmand (eds) Sound Governance: Policy and Administrative Innovations, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, December 2004, pp. 57-73.
• "Public Sector Reform in Hong Kong and Singapore: Reform Trajectories and Explanations", in Akira Nakamura (ed) Comparative Studies of Public Administration VIII: Public Reform, Policy Change, and New Public Management – From the Asia and Pacific Perspective, EROPA (Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration) Local Government Center, Tokyo, Japan, March 2004, pp. 1-28.
• "Health Finance", in Linda Wong, Lynn White and Gui Shixun (eds) Social Policy Reform in Hong Kong and Shanghai: A Tale of Two Cities, Armonk, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, February 2004, pp. 23-52.
• "Political Participation" in Y. M. Yeung and K. Y. Wong (eds) Fifty Years of Public Housing in Hong Kong: A Golden Jubilee Review and Appraisal, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, December 2003. pp. 207-34. [With separate Chinese edition]
• "The Civil Service and Political Reform", in Christine Loh & Civic Exchange (ed) Building Democracy: Creating Good Government for Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, September 2003, pp. 71-83.
• "Hong Kong’s Healthcare Policy (香港醫療政策研究)", in Gui Shixun and Linda Wong (eds): A Comparative Study of Social Policy in Shanghai and Hong Kong (上海與香港社會政策比較研究), Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, April 2003, pp. 166-87.
• "Public Service Reform in Singapore: Reinventing Government in a Global Age", in Anthony Cheung and Ian Scott (eds) Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigm Shifts or Business As Usual?, London: RoutledgeCurzon, January 2003, pp. 138-62.
• "Government Reinvention in Taiwan: Administrative Modernization and Regime Transition", in Anthony Cheung and Ian Scott (eds) Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigm Shifts or Business As Usual?, London: RoutledgeCurzon, January 2003, pp. 90-116.
• "Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigms, Paradoxes and Dilemmas" (with Ian Scott), in Anthony Cheung and Ian Scott (eds) Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigm Shifts or Business As Usual?, London: RoutledgeCurzon, January 2003, pp. 1-24.
• "Transformation of the Civil Service System", in M. K. Chan and A. Y. So (eds) Crisis and Transformation in China’s Hong Kong, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, August 2002, pp. 166-88.
• "The Changing Political System: Executive-led Government or ‘Disabled’ Governance?", in S. K Lau (ed) The First Tung Chee-hwa Administration: The First Five Years of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, July 2002, pp. 41-68.
• "The Politics of New Public Management: Some Experience from Reforms in East Asia", in Kate McLaughlin, Stephen Osborne and Ewan Ferlie (eds) The New Public Management: Current Trends and Future Prospects, London: Routledge, February 2002, pp. 243-73.
• "Health Policy Reform", chapter in L Wong and N Flynn (eds) The Market in Chinese Social Policy, Hampshire: Palgrave, June 2001, pp. 63-87.
• "Between Autonomy and Accountability: Hong Kong’s Senior Civil Servants in Search of an Identity", chapter in R Chapman (ed) Ethics in Public Service for the New Millennium, Aldershot: Ashgate, August 2000, pp 185-202. [With translation in Czech and Albanian published in 2003 and 2004 respectively]
• "Social Conflicts: 1975-1986". (With K S Louie) Chapter in S K Lau (ed) Social Development and Political Change in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, March 2000, pp 63-114. (Contribution: 50%)

Articles in externally refereed journals:

• "Combating Corruption as a Political Strategy to Rebuild Trust and Legitimacy: Can China Learn from Hong Kong?", for International Public Management Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, October 2007, pp. 48-71.
• "Policy Capacity in Post-1997 Hong Kong: Constrained Institutions Facing a Crowding and Differentiated Polity" , The Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 29, No. 1, June 2007, pp. 51-75.
• "Executive-led Governance or Executive Power 'Hollowed-Out' – The Political Quagmire of Hong Kong" , Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 15, No. 1, April 2007, pp. 17-38.
• "Judicial Review and Policy Making in Hong Kong: Changing Interface between the Legal and the Political" (jointly with Max W. L. Wong), The Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 28, No. 2, December 2006, pp. 117-41.
• "How Autonomous are Public Corporations in Hong Kong? The Case of the Airport Authority", Public Organization Review: A Global Journal, Vol. 6, September 2006, pp. 221-36.
• "Reinventing Hong Kong’s Public Service: Same NPM Reform, Different Contexts and Politics", International Journal of Organizational Theory & Behaviour, Vol. 9, No. 2, Summer 2006, pp. 212-34.
• "Budgetary Reforms in the Two City States: Impact on Central Budget Agency in Hong Kong and Singapore", International Review of Administrative Sciences, Vol. 72, No. 3, September 2006, pp. 341-61.
• "Bureaucrats-Enterprise Negotiation in China’s Enterprise Reform at the Local Level: Case Studies in Guangzhou", Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 14, No. 45, 2005, pp. 695-720.
• "Whose Reason? Which Rationality? Understanding the ‘Real Worlds’ of Hong Kong’s Public Managers" (with Brian Brewer and Julia Tao), Philosophy of Management (formerly Reason in Practice), Vol. 5 No. 1, 2005, pp. 3-14
• "What’s in a Pamphlet? – Shortfalls and Paradoxical Flaws in Hong Kong’s Performance Pledges", Public Management Review (UK), Vol. 7, No. 3, September, 2005, pp. 341-66.
• "The Politics of Administrative Reforms in Asia: Paradigms and Legacies, Paths and Diversities", Governance, Vol. 18, No. 2, April 2005, pp. 257-82.
• "Hong Kong’s Post-1997 Institutional Crisis: Problems of Governance and Institutional Incompatibility", Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, January-April 2005, pp. 135-67.
• "Who Advised the Hong Kong Government? The Politics of Absorption before and after 1997" (with Paul C. W. Wong), Asian Survey, Vol. 44, No. 6, November/December 2004, pp. 874-94.
• "Strong Executive, Weak Policy Capacity: The Changing Environment of Policymaking in Hong Kong", The Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 12, No. 1, June 2004, pp. 1-30.
• "Customizing the Tenants, Empowering the Managers: Impact of Public Housing Governance Reform in Hong Kong" (with N. M. Yip), Housing, Theory and Society, Vol. 20, No. 2, June 2003, pp.98-109.
• "Health Finance", The Chinese Economy (with Gu Xingyuan), Vol. 35, No. 6, November-December 2002, pp. 34-67.
• "Citizenship: Re-building of Trust between the Government and the Public", Journal of Youth Studies, Vol. 6, No 1, January 2003 (in Chinese), pp 56-62.
• "Modernizing Public Healthcare Governance in Hong Kong: A Case Study of Professional Power in New Public Management", Public Management Review, Vol. 4, No. 3, September 2002, pp. 343-65.
• "The Paradox of China’s Wage System Reforms: Balancing Stakeholders’ Rationalities" (with Kitty Poon) Public Administration Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 4, Winter 2000 [printed in early 2002], pp. 491-521
• "Public Enterprises and Privatization in East Asia: Paths, Politics and Prospects" Public Finance and Management, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 2002,, pp. 67-96.
• "The New Two-Pronged Strategy of Enterprise Reform in China", (With Ma Ngok and Mok Ka-ho), Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 48, No. 5, September/October 2001, pp. 52-61
• "Civil Service Reform in Post-1997 Hong Kong: Political Challenges, Managerial Responses", International Journal of Public Administration, Vol.24, No.9, August 2001, pp. 929-50.
• "Globalization versus Asian Values: Alternative Paradigms in Understanding Governance and Administration", Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 8, No. 2, December 2000, pp. 1-16.
• "The Formation of Leaders in Party Politics: The Limitations in Hong Kong", Journal of Youth Studies, Vol 3, No 2, July 2000 (in Chinese), pp 29-35.
• "New Interventionism in the Making: Interpreting State Interventions in Hong Kong after the Change of Sovereignty", Journal of Contemporary China, Vol 9, No 24, July 2000, pp 291-308.