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Professor Chan will offer comments on the recent findings of "From Consultation to Civic Engagement: The Road to Better Policy-making and Governance in Hong Kong," an influential report commissioned by the Bauhinia Foundation Research Centre. Professor Chan, the lead author of the report, will offer his insights in the government's civic engagement to help AmCham members and guests learn more about how the the government civil engagement/public consultation process works and how it coud work better.
Joseph C.W. Chan is Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration and Director of the Centre for Civil Society and Governance, both at the Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong. He obtained his undergraduate degree in political science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, M.Sc. in political philosophy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and D.Phil. in political philosophy from the University of Oxford. He teaches courses on liberalism, social justice, democracy, ethics and public affairs, and Confucian political philosophy.
Professor Chan's research interests include contemporary liberalism, Confucian political philosophy, the theory and practice of human rights, civil society and NGOs, and social cohesion. He has published articles in various leading journals, including China Quarterly, Ethics, History of Political Thought, Journal of Democracy, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Philosophy and Public Affairs, and Philosophy East and West. He was a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University in 1999-2000 and was Head of Department from 2002-2004.
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