Professor Yin Cheong CHENG is the Acting President and Chair Professor of Leadership and Change, The Hong Kong Institute of Education. He is the President of the World Educational Research Association (WERA)(2012-2014) and the past-President (2004-2008) of the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA). 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. He is also the chairman of the Tin Ka Ping Foundation's advisory board and a panel advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Prof. Cheng holds a doctorate from Harvard University. He has had extensive experiences in both education and research as a teacher, vice-principal, consultant, and researcher. He has undertaken a number of research projects on education effectiveness, leadership development, paradigm shift, teacher education, education quality, and school management reform 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 and journal articles 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).

Prof. Cheng's research has won him a number of international awards and recognition including the Awards for Excellence from the Literati Network in UK in 1994, 1996-98, 2001, 2004-2005 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 few years, Prof. Cheng has also 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), 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), 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 very fruitful experiences in organizing and conducting leadership development programmes, seminars and workshops for local and international principals and education leaders particularly to implement educational reforms 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.

鄭燕祥教授簡介

鄭燕祥教授是署理校長、講座教授 (領導與變革) 。獲選為世界教育研究學會的會長(二零一二至一四年)。鄭教授曾是亞太教育研究學會會長 (www.apera.org) (2004-08)。又曾獲任大學資助委員會委員、研究資助局專責委員、優質教育基金督導委員等多項公職。他是田家炳基金會諮議局主席及比爾和梅林達蓋茨基金會之委員會顧問。

鄭教授在哈佛大學取得博士銜，曾任學校教師、副校長、顧問、研究員、大學教授。在教學和研究方面均有廣泛而豐富的經驗。他曾在大學教育資助委員會研究資助局的競爭性研究撥款支持下，對教育效能、範式轉變、領導管理、教師教育和學校管理變革等課題作過多項專題研究。

鄭教授著作甚豐，先後在英國、美國、荷蘭、澳大利亞、印度、泰國、香港地區、臺灣地區以及中國內地學術及專業刊物上，發表論文 200 餘篇。出版如《學校效能與校本管理：發展的機制》 (有四種語文版 : 英、韓、繁簡中文 , 1996, 2001, 2002) 等學術專著 20 本。部份著作除中、英文外，曾被翻譯為希伯來文， 韓文，西班牙文、捷克文、泰文和波斯文。目前，他也是 17 份國際學術刊物的顧問編委，國際教育管理學報副主編 (英國) 。

由於研究成就卓越，鄭教授得到國際教育界的稱譽，並屢獲獎項。 1994 年， 1996 - 98 年， 2001 年， 2004-05 年及 2008 年，他發表的論文多次羸得英國 Literati Network 主辦的卓越獎及崇高稱譽。 2008 年亞太教育研究會向他頒授研究會士銜，表揚他對亞太教育研究的貢獻 。他曾任多所本地及國際大學與研究機構的學術及升聘評審專家；並獲邀為文萊、沙地亞拉伯、韓國、印度、巴基斯坦、澳門、中國大陸、泰國、及荷蘭的國家或國際教育項目，提供顧問服務。

近年，先後 90 次應邀為國際會議作主題演講，例如邀請的有聯合國教科文組織（UNESCO）、亞太經合組織（APEC）、學校效能與改進國際會議 (ICSEI 澳洲、香港、加拿大、中國 ) 、 International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), 美國福特基金會、世界銀行、 Scandinavian-Pacific Conference (瑞典) ，聯合酋長國全球教育論壇、國際校長專業發展會議 ( 德國 Erfurt) 、 澳大利亞教育行政議會、星加坡教育研究學會、國際教育研究論壇、日本教師教育研究學會、國際教師教育研究學會等重要國際組織及中國國家教委（現更名為教育部）、以色列教育部、印度 NIEPA 及 NCERT 、泰國教育委員會 (ONEC) 、韓國 iAPED 、馬來西亞教育部 ( 及馬來西亞大學 ) 及菲律賓大學等政府或學術機構主辦的大型國際研討會。

除了教學和研究外，鄭教授有豐富的領導培訓經驗，過去十多年曾為海內外校長、教育領袖及資深工作者主持過不少領導發展課程、管理培訓班、研討會和工作坊，並擔任教育專業團體的顧問。

自六十年代末，鄭教授已熱衷於水彩畫，曾在 2001，2005, 2009 及2010年應邀舉辦四次個人水彩畫展，並為香港藝術館作公開專題藝術講座。