The Eighth Friday Assembly, Second Term, 2016/2017
Date: March 10, 2017 (Friday)
Time: 11:30am
Venue: Chung Chi College Chapel
Programme: Creativity for Good
Guest Speaker: Ms. WONG Ying Kay, Ada, JP. (Founder & Chair, Make A Difference Institute; Convenor & Director, Good Lab Foundation; Supervisor, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity; Founder and Director, Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture)
Speaker's biography:
Ms. Ada Wong has led a varied career as solicitor, educator, social innovator and civil society figure. She is a staunch advocate of creative education, cultural development and social innovation.
Ada founded the Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture (HKICC), a unique non-profit cultural organization whose mission is education innovation and a creative civil society. Among other projects, HKICC founded the HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity in 2006, a senior secondary school dedicated to the nurturing of talents for Hong Kong’s arts and creative industries development.
In 2010, she founded the Make A Difference (MaD) initiative (www.mad.asia), a continuing platform to connect the next generation of creative changemakers in Asia. Two years later, she founded The Good Lab (www.goodlab.hk), a do tank and social innovation hub to enable tri-sector collaborations in bringing about innovative solutions for a better Hong Kong.
In early 2016 Ada has been invited by the Mayor of Seoul, Mr Park Won-soon, to join as member of his “Advisory Group for Seoul Innovation" together with social innovation leaders around the world.
Ada was an elected member of the Urban Council and Wan Chai District Council between 1995 and 2008 with the last four years as Chairperson of the Wan Chai District Council. She received her BA (Hons) from Pomona College, California USA, and M Ed from the University of Hong Kong. She is an Honorary Fellow of Lingnan University and the Hong Kong Education University.
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