Prof Anatoly V. OLEKSIYENKO

Professor and Executive Co-Director, CHELPS

Anatoly Oleksiyenko is Professor of International Higher Education at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). His research focuses on the challenges of globalisation in higher education and transformations of universities in the 21st century. His publications address the dilemmas of agency of internationalisation in higher education, complexity of governance, and ethics of leadership in neoliberal universities. He is a leading scholar on the challenges of organisational change in post-soviet higher education.

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Dr Suyan PAN

Associate Professor and Executive Co-Director, CHELPS

Suyan PAN is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Policy Studies of The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). Her professional engagements in higher education are cultivated in diverse academic communities, including a PhD study and Research Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong, Associate Professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, visiting scholar of the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, guest lecturer at the Research Institute for Higher Education of Fudan University, and speaker of public lecture at the Department of Politics & International Studies of the University of Cambridge.

Suyan’s research interest explores the interdisciplinary fields of higher education, international relations and China studies. She has authored two books and published 50 articles in refereed journals, books, and conferences.

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Dr Weiyan XIONG

Assistant Professor and Executive Co-Director, CHELPS

Dr Weiyan XIONG is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). His research interests include higher education policy and management, indigenous and ethnic minority education, international higher education, and higher education for sustainability.  With an international perspective, Weiyan’s pragmatic orientation drives his studies to be policy-relevant, enhancing institutional development and providing higher education policy recommendations in specific social contexts. Weiyan received his PhD in Higher Education Management from the University of Pittsburgh. Before joining EdUHK, he was an Assistant Professor and the Director of two taught-postgraduate (TPg) programmes at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He also served as a Program Coordinator at the University of Pittsburgh Institute for International Studies in Education and a Visiting Student Researcher at the UC Berkeley Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues.

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