Professor Wing Hung Carlos Lo

Carlos Wing-Hung Lo is Professor and Head at the Department of Government and Public Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He obtained his PhD degree from the Flinders University of South Australia in 1990 and received a doctor of law degree from the Renmin University of China in 2001. He was visiting fellow in the Centre for Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 1993, and was visiting scholar in the School of Public Administration at the University of Southern California in 1994 and 2008, as well as in the Harvard China Project at the Harvard University and the East West Centre of University of Hawaii in 2008. His main research interests are in the areas of law and government, environmental management, public sector management, and corporate social and environmental responsibility, within the contexts of China and Hong Kong. Recently, Prof. Lo has offered consultant services and organized management training programs for public and business sectors. He is the coauthor of Institutions, Regulatory Styles, Society and Environmental Governance in China and the author of China’s Legal Awakening: Legal Theory and Criminal Justice in Deng’s Era. His works have appeared in leading international academic journals including Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Regulation & Governance, Law and Policy, Environment and Planning A, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Administration and Society, American Journal of Comparative Law, Journal of Public Policy, World Development, and The China Quarterly.

My main research interests are in the areas of enterprise management, law and government, environmental management, and public sector management, within the contexts of China and Hong Kong. I have obtained more than 30 research projects amounting to over HKD 15 million and published 10 research monographs, 96 papers in international journals, 23 book chapters, and 4 book reviews. My works have appeared in leading international academic journals in public administration, political science, business, law and environmental science.