Professor CHENG Yin Cheong
Vice-President (R&D) Office, Hong Kong Institute of Education,
Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, NT. Hong Kong
Email address: yccheng@ied.edu.hk
Personal homepage: http://home.ied.edu.hk/~yccheng/
Tel: (852) 29487722, Fax: (852) 2948-7721
Yin Cheong CHENG is the Vice-President (Research and Development) and Chair Professor of Leadership and Change of the Hong Kong Institute of Education. He is the President-elect of the World Educational Research Association (WERA) (2012-2014) and the past-President (2004-2008) of the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA). He is also the chairman of the Tin Ka Ping Foundation’s advisory board and a panel advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He had served as a full member of the University Grants Committee, a panel member of Research Grants Council, and a member of the Quality Education Fund Steering Committee of the Hong Kong SAR Government.
Prof. Cheng holds a doctorate from Harvard University. He has had extensive experiences in both education and research. His research is mainly on education effectiveness, leadership, management reform and teacher education with the support of Competitive Earmarked Research Grants from the Research Grants Council. Prof. Cheng has published 20 academic books and over 200 book chapters, journal articles and other publications in Australia, Hong Kong, Korea, Mainland, Netherlands, Germany, Slovenia, Israel, Taiwan, Thailand, USA, and UK. Some of his publications have been translated into Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, Spanish, Czech, Thai and Persian languages. He was the editor in chief of the Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education and Development (1998-2003). He is at present serving on the advisory boards of 17 international journals. He is also the associate editor of the International Journal of Educational Management (UK) since 2006.
Prof. Cheng’s research has won him a number of international awards and recognition including the Awards for Excellence from the Literati Club in UK in 1994, 1996-98, 2001, 2004-05 and 2008. In 2008, he was awarded as the Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association in recognition of his excellent contribution to educational research in the Region. He has served as panel member, external examiner or reviewer for local and international universities and research institutions. He has been invited to provide consultancy services to national and international projects in Brunei Darussalam, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, Korea, Mainland China, Netherlands, Macao, and Thailand.
In these years, Prof. Cheng has been invited to give over 90 keynote/plenary presentations by national and international organizations such as APEC, UNESCO, UNICEF, ICER, ICSEI (Australia, Hong Kong, Canada, & China), APERA, International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), Ford Foundation (US, Africa), World Bank, SEAMEO RIHED (with Chulalongkorn University), AIAER, NIEPA and NCERT (India), ONEC/OEC (Thailand), ACEA (Australia), NIER (Japan), Ministry of Education of Israel, Ministry of Education of Malaysia (with University of Malaya), iAPED (Korea), Scandinavian-Pacific Conference (Sweden), United Arab Emirates Global Education Forum, Gatar Foundation’s World Innovation Summit in Education, Asia Education Leaders Forum, International Seminar (Erfurt, Germany), ICTED (Philippine), International Society of Teacher Education, Singapore Educational Research Association, Japanese Society for the Studies on Teacher Education, and Chinese Educational Research Association (Taiwan).
Prof. Cheng has fruitful experiences in organizing and conducting leadership development programmes, seminars and workshops for local and international principals and education leaders in the past decades. He has been very interested in watercolor painting since the end of 1960s and had four invited personal exhibitions in 2001, 2005, 2009 and 2010. He was invited by the Hong Kong Museum of Art to conduct art seminars.