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Personnel Changes
The China Programme team has had a number of changes in recent months. Lee Kwok Shing, a founder member of the China Programme, left us in October after ten years. The team will miss his outstanding skills in identifying birds and other animals, and his creative photography, not to mention his jokes. After nearly two years Ms Wylie Chu resigned as our Education and Public Awareness Officer in November, though she has agreed to stay on as a part-time consultant until May 2009. She has brought great creativity in in-depth community engagement to the team and our partners, and we hope to have learned something from her experience. She is now involved with a major liberal education programme in Hong Kong schools.
On the plus side, Jay Wan joined the conservation team in September, as he finished up a Masters degree on Hong Kong's civets at the University of Hong Kong. Along with Philip Lo, who has switched from education work, he forms an exciting new conservation team led by Bosco Chan.
The new education team has also taken shape, with the recruitment of Anna Situ and Wu Hongyun in January and February respectively. Anna Situ has worked at Ocean Park Conservation Foundation after completing her M.Phil at the University of Hong Kong, while Hongyun was with WWF China and has rich experience in education and communication. Hongyun also has a Masters in Anthropology in the Chinese University of Hong Kong and obtained her second Masters degree in Environment and International Development in the University of East Anglia in UK and now heads our education team. Both, too, are Mainland-born, so raise our collective Mandarin standards considerably.
The new staff bring much-appreciated passion and fresh ideas to the CP team (and in case you'd lost track, Michael Lau, Hil Padilla, Ruthie Lau, Ela Lam and John Fellowes are still around!). They look forward to working alongside our partners, old and new.
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