Professor Ho Pui-yin

Professor Ho is a social and economic historian who previously worked as a research consultant at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris.  She now teaches in the History Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  She authors numerous books and articles on Hong Kong and social and economic history of modern China.  Her current researches are mainly on urbanisation of modern day Hong Kong. 

Concurrently, she is Director of Lee Woo Sing Hong Kong History Resource Centre of Shaw College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Member of the Board of Trustees of the same College; Honorary Advisor of Hong Kong War Memorial Pensions Advisory Committee of the Labour and Welfare Bureau; Museum Expert Advisor of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department; and Visiting Professorship (Chaire Dupront) of Université Paris-Sorbonne.

Date of Appointment: 1 May 2007