Dr. Alex He Jingwei

Biography

Dr. Alex He Jingwei is an Associate Professor and Associate Head (Research and Development) with the Department of Asian and Policy Studies (APS) of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (FLASS) at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). He received his PhD Degree in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Dr. He specializes in public policy analysis, health policy and governance and social policy reforms, with particular reference to the Greater China region. He has published extensively in these areas, contributing articles to leading international journals and publishing houses, including Public Administration Review, the China Quarterly, Health Policy and Planning, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Contemporary China, and Public Administration and Development. He also has a rich portfolio of academic articles and book chapters published in Chinese. Since 2012, Dr. He has secured various external as well as internal research grants totaling to HK$1.5 million, including two major projects funded by the General Research Fund (GRF) and the Early Career Scheme (ECS). He is currently leading a GRF project (rated 5.0 full score by the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong SAR Government) that examines the sub-national variation of public attitudes towards social policy in urban China. Dr. He is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Asian Public Policy (JAPP), Executive Member of the East Asian Social Policy Network (EASP), and the alumnus of the Ronald Coase Institute. He is a member of the President's task force for strategic development, EdUHK, and served as the APS Department's Programme Leader for the Master of Social Science Education in Greater China Studies from 2011 to 2013. He was the recipient of the President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Research, HKIEd, the Ronald Coase Institute Fellowship, NUS Research Scholarship and received the First Prize of the All-China University Student Research Project Competition (the Challenge Cup, with teammates). As a policy scholar, Dr. He is actively engaged in policy advocacy. His articles appeared in leading newspapers, including China Daily, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Ming Pao and Singtao Daily. He was interviewed by the Phoenix TV, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), Asia Television (ATV), China Radio International and CBS News in the USA on various policy issues.

Research Interest

Public Policy Analysis, Health Policy and Reforms, Comparative Social Policy,