As a science teacher with a strong conviction for creativity, Kittikorn has dedicated himself to promoting creativity at all levels of education in Thailand and beyond. In his role as an educational advisor, he strives to enhance students' creative thinking abilities and accurately evaluate their potential in this area. Additionally, he underscores the crucial role of creativity in the Thai education system, offering training and support to students, teachers, and educational supervisors.

Collaborating with non-profit organizations and government institutions that share Kittikorn’s vision for creativity, he has made significant contributions to the field. Kittikorn partners with the Future Skills Foundation (FSF) to launch a Community Innovation Project (CIP) with the support of the Equitable Education Fund (EEF). This initiative aimed to cultivate creative problem-solving skills in students, empowering them to tackle community challenges.

Kittikorn developed an intensive science and mathematics creativity test to identify high-potential students for a prestigious fully funded scholarship under the Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology (IPST). This tool serves to refine the scholarship selection process. Additionally, he was invited by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) of Thailand to evaluate the 2022 PISA creativity exam, which was developed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Kittikorn’s academic achievements include two master's degrees in science education from Rangsit University in Thailand and the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh in the USA. During his studies, Kittikorn was honored to receive two prestigious scholarships from the Thai government under the Project of the Promotion of Science Talented Teachers (PSMT): the Premium Scholarship in 2016 and the Super Premium Scholarship in 2019.

Prof Tseng Sun-man held a number of senior arts management positions in Hong Kong, including Executive Director of the Hong Kong Arts Festival Society and Secretary-General of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. He served as Chair and Professor of the Arts Administration Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music from 2005 to 2008. In 2012, he joined the Education University of Hong Kong as Adjunct Professor and masterminded the development of the Executive Master of Arts in Arts Management & Entrepreneurship programme. From 2020 to 2022, he was Professor of Practice in Music Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He serves as Professional Consultant (Honorary) of the Music Department currently.

Prof Tseng has served as board and committee members in many local and international organisations. He was Chairman of the Hong Kong Arts Administrators Association, Chairman of the Committee on Venue Partnership of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, a member of the Hong Kong Government’s Advisory Committee on Arts Development, and a board member of the Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE) in the USA.

He is currently a member of the Cultural Commission of the Hong Kong SAR Government and the Artistic Board of the Macau International Music Festival. Prof Tseng also serves as board member of the Hong Kong Children’s Choir, Hong Kong Dance Company, Hong Kong Gaudeamus Dunhuang Ensemble, Hong Kong Grand Opera, Tang Shu Wing Theatre Studio, and Wu Zhi Qiao (Bridge to China) Charitable Foundation.

His book Principles of Arts Management (in Chinese) has been used as textbook by many arts management programmes in Mainland China universities. In 2022, the International Society for the Performing Arts presented the Angel Award of Hong Kong 2022 ISPA Awards to Professor Tseng

Since joining Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) as the Chief Executive in 2015, Ms Chow has sought more arts spaces and sponsorship for Hong Kong artists and the Council. She has initiated numerous vital strategies and schemes over the years, including gradual improvements to the Council’s grant schemes and devising new ones, like the “Matching Fund Scheme” that has helped arts groups to grow with the support of their donors and sponsors. She is keen to promote cultural exchange and led over 700 arts practitioners to various overseas festivals, expos, arts markets in Europe, America and Australia before the pandemic. She promoted 24 arts programmes in major cities in the Mainland with some in digital format. To help artists and arts practitioners under the pandemic, she devised the “Support Scheme for Arts and Cultural Sector” in 2020 to distribute the Government’s relief fund. Concurrently, she sought sponsorship from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust to engage 68 arts units in a HK$25 million project, “Arts Go Digital Platform Scheme”. She was bestowed the International Citation of Merit by the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA) in 2022.

Louis Yu has more than 30 years experience in the arts. His previous roles include the Executive Director, Performing Arts of the West Kowloon Cultural District, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and the Executive Director of the Hong Kong Arts Centre. He is now the Director of the Hong Kong Art School and is also active in teaching and giving talks in different organisations. In 2022, he was awarded the Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and his first book “What makes a city cultural” was published.

Mr Wong had worked with the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, then the School of Technical Arts of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and the Theatre Workshop since 1983. He co-founded the Anonymity Dramatic Club in 1984, before leading its transformation into the independent, professional arts education company, the Ming Ri Institute for Arts Education, which he now serves as Artistic Director.

Over the decades, Wong puts himself in the commitment to the development of children theatre, drama in education, and the preservation and development of puppetry. In 1993, he was awarded an Asian Cultural Council grant to visit the United States to study children’s theatre and its development. In 1997, he was funded by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and studied arts education and puppetry in the United States. In 1999, he was presented with the Drama Practitioner Annual Achievement Award by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council for his contribution to drama-in-education and children's theatre. For six consecutive years between 2008 and 2014, he was the programme director and coordinator for the Quality Education Fund’s Thematic Network (QTN) on Drama in Education.

Wong was the secretary general of the Asian Alliance of Festivals and Theatres for Young Audiences (ATYA) in 2017-2022. From 1998-2018, he had been a part-time lecturer for the in-service teacher’s degree course in the School of Continuing Education of Hong Kong Baptist University from 1998-2018.

Anna has over thirty years of experience in the dance field as performer, arts educator, producer, curator and administrator, and currently she is the Dean of the School of Dance at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She was the inaugural Head of Dance at the West Kowloon Cultural District from 2014-2018, served as dance consultant from 2018-2019 and served as co-opted member of the Performing Arts Committee under the Board of WKCDA from 2021 to present.

Anna was the Chairperson of the Hong Kong Dance Alliance from 2006-2011 and the Vice-President (East Asia) of the World Dance Alliance Asia Pacific (WDAAP) 2007-2017, Dance Advisor of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council since 2008, and member of the Youth Square Management Advisory Committee appointed by Home Affair Bureau 2010-2015. She was awarded Hong Kong Dance Award in 2004, City Contemporary Dance Laureate in 2016 and the prestigious Hong Kong Dance Award for Distinguished Achievement in recognition for her indefatigable work in dance education, promotion of Hong Kong dance, and innovations in ways to create, present, and sustain dance in 2018. Currently, she serves on the American Dance Abroad inaugural advisory council, as founding core member of Asia Network for Dance (AND+), as member of the Programme Committee under Tai Kwun Cultural and Arts Company Ltd, and as international industry advisor for Australia Council for the Arts. She was appointed Professor of HKAPA and as Visiting Professor by the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing in 2020.

Lee has served as a professional arts administrator for more than 26 years, working for various Hong Kong arts organizations on their management, planning, programming, marketing, fund-raising, and branding, including PIP Cultural Industries Ltd., Hong Kong Dance Company, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre and Hong Kong Fringe Club, among others. In 2010, the Li Ka Shing Foundation appointed her Executive Director of the Cheung Kong School of Art and Design at Shantou University. She became the Associate Dean in 2014 and Director of Arts & Cultural Development of STU Arena in 2018.

Lee is now the Council Member of Hong Kong Arts Development; Advisory Panel Member of Cultural Management Programme of The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Co-chair of the Creativity & Arts Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce; a member of the Advisory Board of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Dance School since 2019; Board Member of Hong Kong Dance Alliance since 2020; and Board Member of Intercultural Dialogue Limited (Presenter of Matteo Ricci Musical). She was a core member of the Producers’ Network Meeting & Forum of West Kowloon Cultural District of Hong Kong (2015-2018), a Management Consultant of the Hong Kong Arts Administrators Association (July-December 2019).

She is the awardee of “AmCham’s Women of Influence – Master of the Arts, 2021”; and awardee of the “Asian Cultural Council Fellowship 2012”.

Dr Tong was formerly the Director of Quality School Improvement Project (QSIP) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), a project that provides professional support to over 40% of Hong Kong primary and secondary schools, and is highly appraised for its “whole-school” approach on delivering changes to frontline teachers.

Before joining QSIP, Dr Tong was involved in teacher training for more than 20 years. He has served as a senior lecturer at Sir Robert Black of Education, and was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the Faculty of Education, CUHK. Throughout these years, Dr Tong garnered crucial insights on teachers’ change and growth, leading him to develop expertise in the professional development of schools as a learning organisation. His specialties also cover areas which are considered as other learning experiences.

In recent years, Dr Tong has been working with principals, universities and the government in Taiwan. He is taking part in curriculum integration (education) for Jockey Club Arts-based Cross Curriculum Creative Learning Project since 2021.

Robert has been interested in the education sector since the late 1990s and has worked on educational research projects for the past twenty years. He has led several projects in Curriculum Review, including the development of the Applied Learning curriculum for senior secondary students and the evaluation of the New Senior Secondary Curriculum. Robert has also conducted surveys and focus group discussions on the impact of the Senior Secondary Curriculum and Post-secondary Studies on students' further studies and future competencies needed for work in Hong Kong. He has also collected employers' views on graduates' performance to assess the outcome of the education system in Hong Kong. Robert has worked on Strategic Planning for Educational Institutions, conducting a 360-degree evaluation of the views and opinions of various stakeholder groups. Additionally, he has conducted large-scale Territory-wide School Surveys on dedicated bodies of knowledge such as Drug Use in the past ten years.

Since joining Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) as the Chief Executive in 2015, Ms Chow has sought more arts spaces and sponsorship for Hong Kong artists and the Council. She has initiated numerous vital strategies and schemes over the years, including gradual improvements to the Council’s grant schemes and devising new ones, like the “Matching Fund Scheme” that has helped arts groups to grow with the support of their donors and sponsors. She is keen to promote cultural exchange and led over 700 arts practitioners to various overseas festivals, expos, arts markets in Europe, America and Australia before the pandemic. She promoted 24 arts programmes in major cities in the Mainland with some in digital format. To help artists and arts practitioners under the pandemic, she devised the “Support Scheme for Arts and Cultural Sector” in 2020 to distribute the Government’s relief fund. Concurrently, she sought sponsorship from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust to engage 68 arts units in a HK$25 million project, “Arts Go Digital Platform Scheme”. She was bestowed the International Citation of Merit by the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA) in 2022.

Lesley is a devoted music educator, composer and conductor. Prior to the current position, he has been an advocate for arts education in schools, professional art groups and arts-supporting organisations.

After completing his undergraduate studies at the HKU, Lesley researched on the Russian composer - Prokofiev’s piano transcriptions and attained MMus (Historical Musicology) from the University of London. Upon returning to HK, he extended his interest in music composition at HKAPA and CUHK. His doctorate thesis focused on Chinese choral compositions.

In the choral music scene, Lesley has been conducting youth and amateur choirs for more than 20 years. He led his choirs winning the Overall Championships in several major international choral competitions – the International Choral Kathaumixw, BC Canada (2016) and 34th Takarazuka International Chamber Choir Contest. Japan (2018). Besides, he led several opera productions including Carmen, La Boheme, Madame Butterfly, The Merry Widow and Norma. He is currently guiding a few alumni choirs on a voluntary basis to express gratitude towards his alma maters.

Prof Gillian Choa has enjoyed her career in a variety of artistic pursuits spanning Hong Kong, Asia, UK and USA. She was the very first Resident Designer for Chung Ying Theatre Company before embarking on her freelance career in the performance and entertainment industry. She worked extensively as a Theatre and Film/TV designer and as display and exhibition designer for high-end fashion houses such as Tiffany & Co of New York and Hermes. She was presenter and writer of a classical music programme on television and editor for local architectural and fashion magazines. Her work covered innumerable stage and film productions in HK and overseas, which were nominated/awarded. Being a devoted educator and avid advocate of practice-as-research for the performing arts, she was regularly invited to participate and exhibit her work at theatre design exhibitions and conferences.

Prof Choa serves on significant academic and government advisory/vetting committees, boards of charitable organisations, and scholarship panels. In 2018, she secured a sizeable government grant to develop digital media technology in the School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts (TEA) that spearheaded Art Tech developments across the Academy.

She first joined the Theatre Design Department in 1996, and was appointed Dean of TEA in 2013, & subsequently Deputy Director and Provost in 2019.

As the Director, she is committed to her continued service while working with her colleagues to realise her vision for the Academy.

Dr Xianhan Huang is an assistant professor and PhD/EdD supervisor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. She is the coordinator of the Postgraduate Diploma of Education (Teaching Chinese as a Second Language) Programme for training primary school teachers. She has been involved in numerous significant National and Regional research projects in Teacher Education. She is a leading scholar in Teacher Professional Development and Teacher Education. Her research interests focus on teaching for creativity, informal teacher learning, teacher self-efficacy, the impact of school environment and more related topics. She has published in top-tier journals, including Computers & Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Teacher Education Research, Comparative Education Review etc. She categorised the diverse strategies of teaching for creativity into the product-oriented and process-oriented approaches. One of her most significant articles: What drives teaching for creativity? Dynamic componential modelling of the school environment, teacher enthusiasm, and metacognition. (Teaching and Teacher Education, 2021). She is currently an associate editor of Cogent Education and a reviewer for multiple international peer-reviewed journals (SSCI) including Journal of Teacher Education, Thinking Skills and Creativity, and Educational Psychology.