Dr. Rosanna Wong, DBE, JP, is the
Executive Director of The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups and
Chairman of the Education Commission of the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region (HKSAR). She is a Working Group Member of the
United Nations High Level Commission on Legal Empowerment of the
Poor. In addition, Dr. Wong is a Member of the National Committee of
the Chinese Peopleˇ¦s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and
the Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission of the Government of
the HKSAR.
Dr. Wong serves a number of
welfare organizations and charities, including World Vision Hong
Kong and World Vision International. She is also a Member of The
Asia Foundation Hong Kong Leadership Council, the
President of the
English-Speaking Union (Hong Kong) and a Member of the Cyberport Digital
Entertainment IncuTrain Centre Advisory Committee. She serves as
Non-Executive Director of two public companies, namely the
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
Limited and the Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited.
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She has a distinguished
record of public service. Dr. Wong is a former Member of the
Executive and Legislative Councils, as well as being the former
Chairperson of the Hong
Kong Housing Authority, the Commission on Youth and the Social
Welfare Advisory Committee. She is also a former Member of the United Nations High Level
Panel on Youth Employment.
ˇ@ Dr. Wong holds a B.Soc.Sc. from
the University of Hong Kong; an M.S.W. from the University of
Toronto; an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Politics,
University of London; and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of
California, Davis. She was awarded Honorary Doctorates from
the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1996, the University of
Toronto in 1999, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2002, the
University of Hong Kong in 2003 and the Hong Kong Institute of
Education in 2004. She was bestowed the Beta Gamma Sigma
Chapter Honouree Award by the Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology in 2003.
ˇ@ Dr. Wong has been the recipient
of many awards, both locally and internationally, including
receiving one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award in Hong
Kong and being honoured as Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World
Economic Forum. She was also honoured with the award of Dame
Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) in
1997. In 1994 she was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order
of the British Empire (CBE), and in 1990 was awarded an Officer of
the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
(OBE). |