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About Us
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OUR VISION
- Engage the academy and the public on the relevance of faith in a post-secular world
- Enable students to flourish in a world of religious pluralism by encouraging them to
- Acquire religious literacy
- Pursue transcendent questions
- Seek values and virtues that build flourishing communities
OUR MISSION
- Researching the relation between faith and human flourishing, with an emphasis on the impact of Christianity in East Asia
- Pioneering a programme on character and leadership development
- Hosting a distinguished lecture series on the role of faith in tackling current issues
- Providing Common Core courses that focus on meaning, purpose and virtue
Building
FLOURISHING
Communities
Te raau rahi (The Big Tree), 1891 by Paul Gauguin
OUR TEAM
Faith and Global Engagement works in community with an Executive Committee made up of professors from the University of Hong Kong, a team of Advisors from the Hong Kong community and an Academic Advisory Board with representatives from Oxford, Yale, Duke, and other world-renown universities.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Prof. Daniel Chua
Faculty of Arts | Director
Prof. Pauline Chiu
Faculty of Science | Director
Prof. Terry Lum
Faculty of Social Sciences | Director
Prof. Ian Wong
Faculty of Medicine | Director
Prof. Kenneth Wong
Faculty of Engineering | Director
Prof. Christopher Leung
Faculty of Medicine | Director
Dr. Linda Chan
Faculty of Medicine | Director
Prof. Yi Samuel Chen
Associate Professor of Practice (Urban Heritage and Sustainability)
Prof. Carl Hilderbrand
Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit
Dr. Francis Tsui
Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr. Jonathan Johnson
Research Assistant Professor, School of Humanities
Dr. Ling Hua Loon
Senior Research Assistant
Dr. Annie Hongping Nie
Research Fellow
MANAGEMENT
Candy Tse
Project Manager
ACADEMIC ADVISORY BOARD
Dr. David F Allen, M.D., M.P.H
Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
Prof. Jeremy Begbie
Duke Divinity School, Duke University | Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge
Prof. Alister McGrath
Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion, University of Oxford
Prof. Lionel Tarassenko
Chair in Electrical Engineering, University of Oxford | Director of Institute of Biomedical Engineering | Fellow, St. John's College
Prof. Miroslav Volf
Founder and Director, Yale Center for Faith and Culture | Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology, Yale University
Prof. Kang Phee Seng
Founding Fellow, International Society for Science and Religion | Former Vice President, Professor, Founding Director of the Centre for Faith and Public Values at China Graduate School of Theology
ADVISORS
Mrs. Wendy Tong Barnes
Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, CK Asset Holdings Limited
Mrs. Grace Lee Baughan
Founder of Be Still Media
Dr. Natalie Chan
Director of Ray Bakke Centre for Urban Transformation
Ms. Hillary Chan
Retired Senior Partner, Egon Zehnder
Mr. Tom Chan
Retired businessman
Mr. Chan Yim-kwong
Regional Director-Agency, AXA China Region Insurance Co Ltd
Ms. Lillian Kiang
Chief Executive Officer, Bei Shan Tang Foundation
Mrs. Tammy Fan
Director-General of The Fan Family Charitable Trust
Mr. David Sun, GBS, JP
Former Chairman, Ernst and Young of the Far East Area
Ms. Joyce Tam
Executive Director (Private Wealth Management), Goldman Sachs
SUPPORT OUR WORK
We warmly invite you to join us as together we seek to realize our mission of building flourishing communities through research, teaching and learning, and public engagement. Our immediate aspirations are:
- Research – becoming a thought leader in our new research agenda on how the Christian faith helps cultivate personal, communal, and planetary flourishing especially in the context of China.
- Teaching and Learning – developing a curriculum framework for Lead for Life that allows the programme to flourish at HKU and to be replicated in other universities in Hong Kong and around the world.
- Public Engagement – continuing to attract world-class speakers to HKU to share their faith-based views on critical contemporary issues.
Harvest in Provence, 1888 by Vincent Van Gogh
support our work
Harvest in Provence, 1888 by Vincent Van Gogh
We warmly invite you to join us as together we seek to realize our mission of building flourishing communities through research, teaching and learning, and public engagement. Our immediate aspirations are:
- Research – becoming a thought leader in our new research agenda on how the Christian faith helps cultivate personal, communal, and planetary flourishing especially in the context of China.
- Teaching and Learning – developing a curriculum framework for Lead for Life that allows the programme to flourish at HKU and to be replicated in other universities in Hong Kong and around the world.
- Public Engagement – continuing to attract world-class speakers to HKU to share their faith-based views on critical contemporary issues.
There are three ways you can help support our work:
First, you can help by attending our various public lectures, and spreading the word of our work throughout the Hong Kong community. The easiest way to do that is to subscribe to our newsletter, and then invite your friends to come with you for the various events. You can subscribe here and ask your friends to subscribe as well.
Second, you can make a financial donation. As part of the Hong Kong Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, Faith and Global Engagement is a privately funded academic programme that relies on the financial support of individuals, granting agencies, and foundations to operate. All of what you see on this website is possible through your donations. All donations to HKU are tax deductible. You will receive a receipt from HKU.
Third, is that you can collaborate directly with us in our work. Faith and Global Engagement is designed as a flexible platform to allow others to work with us towards the same vision. We would be interested in connecting with you to see how your expertise and interests might align with our aspirations described above. Please feel free to contact either Prof. Daniel Chua, FGE’s Founding Director at dchua@hku.hk or Steve Gaultney, FGE’s Managing Director at steveg@hku.hk.
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