Dr Fanny Chan works in the news and media publishing industry. She is the Chief Executive Officer of an online job-board and the Publisher of a number of adult education magazines.

In her role as a service provider to the adult recruitment and continuous education sector, she has witnessed at the frontline the market evolution process of self-financing adult education in Hong Kong. Hence such exposure has shaped her interest and research direction in investigating the development of consumerism and the quality issues exposed in self-financing higher education in Hong Kong.

Dr Fanny Chan is also interested in social marketing and has a passion in advocating career planning and life-long learning. She is an active career counselor to young working adults through the mass and online media.

Dr. Tsan Ming Kenneth Chan is a lecturer with the Hong Kong Institute of Education involving in the research and teaching of various pre-service and in-service teacher education programmes. He is also actively involving in organizing and teaching of various middle leaders and headship training programmes for schools. His research interests are classroom management, juvenile delinquency, organization and management of extra-curricular activities and privatization of education services. Before joining the tertiary education, he had over ten years teaching experiences at primary and secondary school levels. He was graduated from a teacher training college in 1981 and obtained a special education teacher certificate in 1984. He furthered his study in England and attained his Bachelor of Education Degree from the University of Nottingham in 1986. He completed his Master of Social Sciences Degree in the University of Hong Kong majoring in Juvenile Delinquency in 1990. He was an Assistant Inspector of the Education Department before joining the teacher education profession in 1993.

Dr. Chan is also enthusiastically engaging in various social services. He has been an Auxiliary Police Officer since 1983 and now a Senior Superintendent of Police. He is also serving as a first aid lecturer with St. John Ambulance Association, senior sailing and racing instructor, canoe instructor, dragon boat instructor, international dragon boat umpire, Hong Kong Award for Young People Gold Level expedition assessor, a scout commissioner, etc.

Dr Leung Kathy Kam Ping is the teaching faculty of Department of Applied Social Studies at City University of Hong Kong. Kathy served as psychological and family counsellor as well as fieldwork practicum supervisor before she joined the City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests cover social work education, practice teaching and learning, family services and counselling.

Dr David Wong works in English Language Centre of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, coordinating a number of English subjects for the Faculty of Business students of the University. His professional interests, which he has developed throughout the Bristol EdD programme, include education marketing and public relations in higher education.