Faculty of Social Sciences

Professor Wen Ming is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, a Chair Professor of Population Sciences and Sociology, and Co-Director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Socio-Economic Inequality in Asia. She joined HKU in the fall of 2022 and assumed the role of Dean. Prior to that, she has been a faculty member at the University of Utah in the United States since 2003, was promoted to full professor in 2013, and served as Chair of the Department of Sociology from 2015 to 2021. As an internationally acclaimed social demographer, Professor Wen has been recognized among Stanford University’s “Top 2% Scientists Worldwide.” She is committed to investigating the social determinants of health and well-being, with a focus on family and community environments across different stages of the life course. Her research encompasses child and adolescent development, midlife, and late-life quality of life. Her work has been published in numerous leading academic journals, and her research projects have received funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC), and various other research organizations. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Information Science from Peking University and completed graduate studies at the University of Chicago, obtaining both a master’s degree in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Sociology.