Board of Trustees

Prof. Freedom Leung graduated from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada with a PhD in Clinical Psychology. He spent three years working as the clinical research associate at the Douglas Hospital Centre in Montreal before returning to Hong Kong in 1992. His research expertise includes eating disorders, borderline personality disorder, self-harm behaviour and mindfulness therapy. Prof. Leung has received numerous teaching awards, including the Best Teaching Award of the Faculty of Social Science (2004), the Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award (2005), and the General Education Best Teaching Award of Shaw College (2019). 

Prof. Leung was the past president of the Hong Kong Psychological Society (1996-1997), and the senior advisor for the Society of Clinical Psychology in China and Taiwan (2004-2014). He is also a committee member of the Asian Cognitive Behavior Therapy Association (2018-2021). Besides serving as the Head of Shaw College, Prof. Leung also serves as the senior consulting clinical psychologist for the Office of Student Affairs and the Human Resources Office of CUHK.

Professor Donna Chu is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication in The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on youth media culture, gender, and media literacy. Before joining academia, she worked across various media sectors as a reporter, scriptwriter and television producer. In 2017, she founded Mars Media Academy, a social enterprise dedicated to promoting media and information literacy.

Since joining Shaw College in 2009, Professor Chu has been an active contributor to College life and student development. In addition to leading various summer programmes, she assumed the role of Warden of Kuo Mou Hall in 2022. Her dedication to teaching and contributions to the College has been recognized through several honours, including the Outstanding Teaching Performance Award for College General Education Courses (2024/25) and the Long-serving Award (2025).

Professor Chu has also made significant contributions to College through her service on numerous committees. She currently serves as Chair of the Student Development Programmes Committee and the Scholarship, Award and Financial Assistance Committee. She is also an active member of several College committees, including the Assembly of Fellows, Disciplinary Committee, General Education Committee, Student Hostel Management Committee, IT Resources Planning and Facilities Management Committee, and the Task Force on Major Repair, Maintenance and Renovation of Student Hostels.

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Professor LAU Chong-Fuk is a Professor and Graduate Division Head of the Department of Philosophy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Bachelor of Engineering in Information Engineering and M.Phil. in Philosophy from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and PhD in Philosophy from Heidelberg University, Germany. Upon completion of his doctoral degree, he was awarded a research fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and taught briefly at the Institute of Philosophy of Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany. He has been teaching at The Chinese University of Hong Kong since 2004. His research interests include classical German philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. He enjoys traveling, football, and various outdoor activities; he is also a paraglider pilot.

Professor WU Che-yuen Justin is the Associate Dean (Health Systems) of Faculty of Medicine and the Chairman of CUHK Medical Services, CUHK. He is responsible for the development of collaborative network with private health systems, biomedical tech industry, Greater Bay Area and beyond for CUHK Medicine.

He is a professor of gastroenterology with academic focus in the field of functional gastrointestinal disorder and gastroesophageal reflux disease. He is currently the President of Asian Pacific Association of Gastroenterology (APAGE), the Past-President of Hong Kong Society of Gastroenterology, and Scientific Chairman of Asia Neurogastroenterology and Motility.

In medical education, Professor Wu is the founding director of Asia’s first “Global Physician-Leadership Stream” (GPS) of MBChB programme of CUHK Medicine. He is responsible for the design and operation of the GPS curriculum. The GPS has been the top programme among all university undergraduate studies in Hong Kong for 9 consecutive years. He is an eminent teacher honoured with 8 awards of medical education, which include Vice-Chancellor Exemplary Teaching Award, Master Teacher, and Teacher of the Year Awards in CUHK Medicine.

He is the founding director of Hong Kong Institute of Integrative Medicine in CUHK with the mission of fostering cooperation between Western and Chinese medicine in the healthcare system. He steered the development of the world’s first English Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Chinese medicine in collaboration with Coursera.

In medical innovation, Professor Wu is serving as director and advisor of biomedical technology companies and venture capital funds. He also actively contributes to incubator and accelerator programmes for supporting the growth of biomedical tech start-up companies.