Board
Board of Directors
Mr Chong Chan-yau, Board Chairman
Currently, Mr. Chong is Honorary Advisor to the Centre for Development and Resources for Students at the University of Hong Kong, Chairman of the “Dialogue in the Dark” Foundation Charity, and Chairman of the Hong Kong People's Council on Sustainable Development.
Mr. Chong is a graduate from the University of Hong Kong in 1981. He obtained a Master’s degree in Information Systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1985.
He has served in the Hong Kong Government as an administrative officer. He worked at Oxfam later and was appointed Executive Director of Oxfam Hong Kong and a member of the Board of Directors of Oxfam International. He then joined the University of Hong Kong as the Director of Student Development for its Centre for Development and Resources for Students.
Mr. Chong is active in promoting civil society in Hong Kong. He is on the Executive Committee of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, and is Vice-Chairman of the Joint Council for the Physically and Mentally Handicapped and President of the Hong Kong Blind Union. He has also been a member of the Education and Publicity Subcommittee of the Council for Sustainable Development, which is an advisory committee to the Hong Kong SAR Government on sustainability issues.
Mr. Chong has received the Ten Young Persons Award in 1991 and the MBE honour in 1995 for his outstanding service to the Hong Kong community.
Dr Trini Leung Wing-yue
Dr Leung is the Executive Director of Carbon Care Asia, and has assisted many organizations and companies to draw up sustainability strategies and carbon leadership paths in Hong Kong and Asia. Dr Leung and her team at CCA have pioneered innovative carbon neutrality, offset, benchmarking and CarbonCare® programs for various organizations.
Gathering years of work experience in environmental awareness raising, sustainable development advocacy, responsible competitiveness and business strategies, and civil society movements in Hong Kong, China, Asia, UK, Dr Leung co-founded Carbon Care Asia in 2008 as a social enterprise providing sustainable solutions to private and public sectors in Asia to mitigate climate change.
She is an expert in globalization issues, corporate social responsibility, environment and climate change; and has been invited to speak at numerous public forums in Hong Kong, Mainland China and overseas.
Born and grew up in Hong Kong, Dr Leung obtained a Ph.D. degree studying the politics of economic development and new social and labour movements in China at The University of Hong Kong.
Ms Ivy Ning
Ms Ivy Ning is founder of PeoplePlus Consulting, an organizational and leadership change consultancy.
As a master coach, designer and facilitator of culture change and leadership programs, Ivy has worked with leaders and leadership teams in China, Hong Kong and Australia during the past 12 years. Her strength is in bringing change to organization culture and coaching leaders to enact on their visions/missions. She is well-known for her dynamic presence and high impact approach that bring about true systemic and behavioral changes. She has consulted a broad range of organizations included governmental, political, non-governmental and business.
She believes to change behaviors we have to start changing our thinking. And to change our thinking, we need to "know" what is our thinking first. Thinking is assessed by how people act, and not what people say. Ivy, through her many years of experience having worked with people of different nationalities, background and thinking level, facilitates change through both understanding and provocation.
Before her consulting career, she spent 10 years in the Information Technology industry in various regional marketing and business development positions.
Ms Rosanna Wong
Ms Rosanna Wong is a specialist in media and communications. She has extensive experience in public relations, publishing, radio broadcasting, creative writing and translation.
She is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong in Translation and English Studies and Comparative Literature. She later focuses her career in communications and obtained her Master's Degree in Communications Policy Studies form the City University of London.
Ms Wong is a member of the Hong Kong non-governmental organisation delegation to the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in South Africa in 2002. Apart from environmental issues, she is also a keen advocate for enhancing development opportunities for disadvantaged youth in Hong Kong. She is the Vice Chairperson of the University of Hong Kong Growing Partners Project since its inception in 2005, a special programme that encourages mentorship and cross-social background support and communications.