Prof Paul Lam Kwan-Sing
President, Hong Kong Metropolitan University

Prof. Paul Lam is President and Chair Professor of Environmental Chemistry of Hong Kong Metropolitan University.

He studied for his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the University of Hong Kong. He was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to undertake his doctoral study at the University of Sheffield and a Croucher Fellowship for Postdoctoral Research at King’s College, the University of London.

Prof. Lam is the co-author of over 450 publications in international refereed journals. He was awarded the Natural Science Award in 2011, 2012 and 2019 by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.
In community service, Prof Lam was Chairman of the Advisory Council on the Environment. He currently chairs the Accreditation Advisory Board. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2008. He was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star in 2014.