Prof. Annie TAM Kam-lan, GBS, JP was the Permanent Secretary for Labour and Welfare of the HKSAR Government from July 2012 to April 2017. In that capacity, she helped the Government formulate labour and welfare policies including, among others, those relating to mental health. She is now Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Social Science of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Adjunct Professor of Department of Social Work and Social Administration of The University of Hong Kong. She also serves the governance boards of a number of non-profit organizations in the fields of mental health, family service, youth development, elderly housing, women well-being, and higher education.

Prof. Chung-mau Lo was appointed Secretary for Health on 1 July 2022. Before joining the Government, he was Hospital Chief Executive at The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, Chair of Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery at The University of Hong Kong and Director of Liver Transplantation Centre at Queen Mary Hospital.



Prof. Lo has devoted himself to clinical work, teaching and scientific research in the field of hepatobiliary surgery for more than three decades. He is internationally renowned for his expertise in hepatobiliary surgery and liver transplantation. He has published over 600 original articles in refereed international journals and his H-index is 94. His pioneering work in adult right lobe living donor liver transplantation has revolutionised the practice of liver transplant world-wide and has put Hong Kong on the world map of liver transplant. He and his team were awarded China's top national honour of First-class State Scientific and Technological Progress Award in 2005.



He was the President of the International Liver Transplantation Society and the International Society for Digestive Surgery. He has served in the editorial board of many prestigious journals, including the American Journal of Transplantation, Liver Transplantation, Surgery and the Annals of Surgery. He has been elected as an Honorary Fellow of the American Surgical Association and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland as well as an Honorary Member of the European Surgical Association.



Prof. Lo served as the Hospital Chief Executive of The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital from November 2016 to June 2022. Under the "One Country, Two Systems" strategy, he has actively leveraged the advantages of Shenzhen-Hong Kong cross-border collaboration to advocate "Green Healthcare Reform" in public hospitals, and to promote medical integration in the Greater Bay Area. Under his leadership, the Hospital became the youngest High-level Hospital of Guangdong Province in 2018 and received Shenzhen Municipal City Mayor's Quality Gold Award in 2020. The Hospital has been selected as a National High-Quality Development Hospital in 2021.

Patricia E. Deegan PhD is a founder of Pat Deegan & Associates. For over 30 years Pat has been a thought leader and disruptive innovator in the field behavioral health recovery. Pat founded a company run by and for people in recovery. The mission: To safeguard human dignity by bringing individual voice and choice to the center of the clinical care team. Toward this end she developed Pat Deegan’s Recovery Approach that includes the award winning CommonGround software, Medication Empowerment, Certified Personal Medicine Coaching, the online Recovery Library, the CommonGround Academy for peers and practitioners, and the Hearing Distressing Voices Simulation. Since 2009 Pat has worked as a consultant helping to develop and evolve the OnTrackNY model for coordinated specialty care teams for young folks experiencing early psychosis. Pat is an activist in the disability rights movement and has lived her own journey of recovery after being diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teenager. She has held a number of academic appointments, has numerous publications, and has carried a message of hope for recovery to audiences around the world. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Duquesne University.

Akiko Hart is the CEO of the National Survivor User Network (NSUN), a mental health charity in the UK. She is also a trustee and former chair of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS) UK. She has been appointed a Professor in Practice at the University of Durham in the UK and works alongside the Institute for Medical Humanities. She sits on the Steering Group of the National Institute for Health and Care Research's (NIHR) BRACE Evaluation Centre at the University of Birmingham. She has previously worked as the Director of Mental Health Europe, and as the Hearing Voices Project Manager at Mind in Camden.

Dr. CHEUNG Hung-kin is the former Superintendent of the Castle Peak Hospital where he had served for over 35 years. Dr. CHEUNG had led the Hospital its milestone redevelopment to meet the changing and growing medical service needs for mental patients. Dr. CHEUNG joined the New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (the Association) in 1973 as a Member of the Executive Committee and as the Chairperson of Male Halfway House Committee from which the Association’s very first halfway house in Hong Kong was incubated to the nowadays government subvented residential services. Dr. CHEUNG is now the Honorary Secretary of the Executive Committee and the Chairperson of Residential Services Subcommittee of the Association.

Miss Charmaine LEE is a seasoned Administrative Officer having served in various bureaux and departments before being appointed as the Director of Social Welfare since August 2022. Miss LEE oversees the Social Welfare Department in implementing a wide spectrum of welfare services in Hong Kong, covering elderly, family, youth, child welfare and rehabilitation services, as well as various social security schemes.

Miss Hannah YIP is a seasoned registered social worker with rich experience in family and child welfare, youth, elderly, as well as rehabilitation services. Miss YIP has been appointed as the Assistant Director of Social Welfare since September 2020, and oversees the planning and development of rehabilitation and medical social services.

Mr. Chu has been serving the mental health service since 1990. He received the first ever Overseas Corporate Scholarship for Allied Health professionals offered by Hospital Authority to complete a training on Community Mental Health in Melbourne in 2010. Since then, he has advocated recovery-oriented practice in mental health service by taking up as a role as the convenor of Recovery-oriented practice Training Subgroup in the Coordinating Committee of Occupational Therapy. His current research interest is on positive psychotherapy for psychosis. His clinical trial was recently published in the journal, namely Schizophrenia Research. He is a reviewer and associate editor of the Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy and an academic editor of The Archives of Psychiatry. Mr. Chu is also engaged actively in conducting training to OT undergraduates, frontline therapists, and etc. Mr. Chu is currently serving as a Senior Occupational Therapist in Day & Ambulatory Service and a Clinical Educator of Kwai Chung Hospital. He has been also appointed as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University since 2021.

Teresa is a senior social worker with 20 years of experience practising and supervising elderly and rehabilitation services. Teresa joined 2011 HKCSS as Chief Officer (Rehabilitation Service) as well as Secretary General of The Hong Kong Joint Council for People with Disabilities.

She has been appointed as members of many committees of Government Bureaus and Departments such as Labour and Welfare Bureau, Social Welfare Department, Educational Bureau and Buildings Department and actively promotes the development of Rehabilitation Policy and Services.

Mr. CHING Chi-Kong is the Director of the Mental Health Association of Hong Kong and founding executive member of The Hong Kong Macau Mental Health Association. He has been working in the field of rehabilitation for more than 35 years and has also served as a member on various Government’s committees and advisory groups. He pays particular attention to the areas of empowerment, recovery, public education and service gaps in community service. He is also the Executive Director of the Institute of Community Rehabilitation. Since 2005, he has been actively introducing community rehabilitation service model to partners in Mainland China and there are more than 65 collaborative projects implemented.

Mr Raymond Chiu Han-man is a Registered Social Worker with over 30 years of experience. He has worked in BOKSS since 1995 and has led Vocational Rehabilitation Services for mental recovery and CSR business collaboration within the agency for over 20 years. In the past, Mr. Chiu worked with many universities on the research of mental rehabilitation and cooperated with enterprises in various industries to promote workplace inclusion projects. He is currently a member of the employment group Members of the Rehabilitation Advisory Committee Sub-committee on Employment of the Labour and Welfare Bureau.

Mr. Chiu acquired his Master Degree in Mental Health and Non-profit Management in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration of the University of Hong Kong after finishing his Bachelor degree in Social Work and Master of Business Administration. He also completed the Executive Education Program at Harvard Business School in 2015.

Suffered from depression and anxiety in 2017, Cheong encountered with social welfare services and learned the concept of recovery. In 2019, he completed the peer support worker training and devoted himself to the PSW mission with a heart of giving back. In the past three years, Cheong has built courses as a peer mentor and shared his recovery experience with the community in promoting mental health. Cheong is interested on working class and men's mental health, and participates in the development of PSW role.

Mr. Thomas CHU is a Registered Social Worker. He joined the New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association in 1993 and has been serving as the Chief Executive Officer of the Association since 2021. The Association strives to promote recovery-oriented community mental health services and operates more than 70 service units/projects and over 20 social enterprises serving with over 16,000 people in recovery of mental illness (PIR) and their families.

Mr. CHU committed to enhancing the Association’s professionalism and expanding its network to provide high quality mental health services for PIR, their families and the general public. Mr. CHU has extensive experience in strategy development, advocacy, project management, efficiency improvement and service segment expansion. Under his leadership, the Association achieved the high quality outcomes.

Mr. CHU also endeavors to explore, develop and promote the strengths and talents of PIR and Persons with Autism (PWAs) through various vocational training and individualized services. Mr. CHU is enthusiastic in enhancing public understanding and acceptance towards their capabilities through sharing and training with government departments, hospitals, institutes and corporations in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Upholding the Association’s core value of “Care for People, Excel for Quality”, Mr. CHU initiated diversified innovative and need-oriented services, including ageing service development, food sharing projects and environmental friendly projects.

Apart from professional services, Mr. CHU serves in various public capacities to contribute to the mental health development and social services in Hong Kong.

Mr. Wong Chi-fai, the shop manager of farmfresh330, is in charge of the sales, management, setting up of marketing strategies, supervision, and training of staff. Before being officially employed by farmfresh330, Chi Fai was a participant of the career training program and had his retail training in New Life Farm, now known as farmfresh330.
Chi Fai began working as a trainee and learned seriously with passion and enthusiasm in the shop despite the tiredness he had to bear because of his medical treatment for depression. He was, therefore, promoted as the shop manager.
He has been working in a social enterprise for over 10 years and is responsible for managing the shop by showing improvements and excellent working abilities with the support and encouragement from colleagues. He is very willing to share his rehabilitation stories with others and was interviewed by various newspapers and media. His journey in overcoming the circumstances he encountered is undoubtedly inspirational for other people-in-recovery.

Dr. YU Chi-shing, Edwin, MH is a Medical Consultant of Kwai Chung Hospital. He first became a psychiatrist in 1980 and a medical consultant in 1991. Dr. YU led the psychogeriatric movement in Hong Kong from 1993 and was awarded the “Ten Outstanding Young Person” in 1994, and Medal of Honour in 2001. Dr. YU joined the New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (the Association) in 1980 and at present the Vice-Chairperson of the Executive Committee and the Chairperson of Work and Employment Subcommittee of the Association.

Dr. Chan is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Kwai Chung Hospital. He had experience in various psychiatric services including Adult, Substance Abuse, Child and Adolescent, Rehabilitation and Community Psychiatry. He is now the Head of Department of Psychogeriatric Service in Kwai Chung Hospital. He is also Honorary Associate Professors in Departments of Psychiatry in the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He engages widely in public education in mental health and teaching of medical and nursing students.