Facilitators and Speakers
Professor Ian Holliday
Vice-President and
Pro-Vice-Chancellor
(Teaching and Learning)
The University of Hong Kong
Ian graduated from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge with a BA and MA in Social and Political Studies. He graduated from New College, Oxford with an MPhil and DPhil in Politics. He first taught at the Department of Government, University of Manchester, and was
Professor Paul Gandel
School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
United States
Paul is a professor in the School of Information Studies. Previously he served as the Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Syracuse University. As Chief Information Officer he was responsible for all aspects for information technology
Gabi Wong
Head (Research Support Services)
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library
Gabi leads the research support services team at the Library of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Before this role, her professional experiences covered learning space management, information literacy teaching, library service assessment, and
John Marrett
Senior Analyst / Manager, Country Risk Service Asia
EIU.com
John is a Senior Analyst for Asia-Pacific based in The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Hong Kong office. He covers Vietnam, Indonesia and Hong Kong. His specialist research interests include monetary policy, tourism and electronics goods trade , while he has also had tenures
Flora Ng
Chief Information Officer and University Librarian
The University of Hong Kong
Flora joined The University of Hong Kong in May 2021 as the Chief Information Officer and University Librarian. She is passionate about driving the digital transformation for the Library and the Central Administrative functions within the University. Before joining The
Peter Cobb
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Education and Faculty of Arts (School of Humanities)
The University of Hong Kong
Dr. Peter J. Cobb is a field archaeologist, ceramics specialist, and a digital humanist. He is an assistant professor in the Faculties of Education and Arts at the University of Hong Kong, where his coursework spans archaeology, ancient history,
information sciences, and digital
Rachel Lui
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Science
The University of Hong Kong
Rachel is currently a Senior Lecturer in Faculty of Science at the University of Hong Kong and is mainly responsible for teaching the Science Foundation Courses and Common Core Courses. She actively experienced different teaching tools such as flipping the classroom and...
Jessie Jiafang Liang
PhD student
Faculty of Education
The University of Hong Kong
Jessie is a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Peter Cobb in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong in Information Science direction. For her PhD study, Liang proposes to apply data science and scientific investigation to study ceramics...
Esther Woo
Director of Library Services and Fung Ping Shan Librarian
The University of Hong Kong
Esther is the Director of Library Services and Fung Ping Shan Librarian at The University of Hong Kong overseeing the Libraries’ internal operations and Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) collections.
During her over twenty years...
Aaron Tay
Lead, Data Services
Singapore Management University Libraries
Aaron Tay is currently Data services Lead, Singapore Management University Libraries. An academic librarian with over a decade of experience. His current areas of interests includes , Bibliometrics, Discovery, Open Access and Scholarly communications. He has
Sidney Cheng
University Librarian
The Education University of Hong Kong Library
Sidney started his career in academic libraries over 30 years ago as a cataloguer in the University of Hong Kong Libraries. He was the inaugural head of HKUL’s Audio-Visual Department. Before taking up the leadership of EdUHK Library in 2021
Diana Chan
Director of Library Services
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library
Diana received her BBA at CUHK and MLS from San Jose State University, she started as an information specialist in Bain & Company in USA. Her academic library career began with building the David Lam Management Research Library at the University of British