CHENG Yin Cheong 鄭燕祥

Chinese Name: 鄭燕祥

Variants: Cheng, Y. C.

CHENG Yin Cheong is Emeritus Professor and Advisor (Academic Development), EPL of the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). He was Research Chair Professor of Leadership and Change (2014-2016), Vice President (Research and Development) of HKIEd (2008-2014), the immediate Past President of World Education Research Association (WERA) (2014-2016) and the President of Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA) (2004-2008). Currently he is the chairman of Advisory Board of the Tin Ka Ping Foundation.  Previously he had served as a full member of the University Grants Committee, a panel member of Research Grants Council, and a member of the Quality Education Fund Steering Committee of the Hong Kong SAR Government. 

Prof. Cheng holds a doctorate from Harvard University. He has had extensive experiences in both education and research. His research is mainly on education effectiveness, paradigm shift, leadership, management reform, higher education, and teacher education. Prof. Cheng has published 20 academic books and over 250 book chapters, journal articles and other publications. Some of his publications have been translated into Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, Spanish, Czech, Thai and Persian languages. He is at present serving on the advisory boards of 17 international journals. He is also the associate editor of the International Journal of Educational Management (UK) since 2006. Prof. Cheng’s research has won him a number of international awards and recognition including the Awards for Excellence from the Literati Network in UK. In 2008, he was awarded as the Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association in recognition of his excellent contribution to educational research in the Region. He has served as panel member, external examiner or reviewer for local and international universities and research institutions. He has been invited to provide consultancy services to national and international projects in Brunei Darussalam, Saudi Arabia, Gatar, India, Pakistan, Korea, Mainland China, Netherlands, Macao, and Thailand. In these years, Prof. Cheng has been invited to give over 110 keynote/plenary presentations by national and international organizations.

He has been very interested in watercolour painting since the end of 1960s and had invited personal exhibitions in 2001, 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2014. He was invited by the Hong Kong Museum of Art to conduct art seminars.

Education reform,  Paradigm shift in education,

Internationalization of higher education,

Leadership, Teacher education and development.

School autonomy, 21st century learning

Scopus ID: 7404911298

ORCID: 0000-0002-0220-9516

Researcher ID: J-5839-2015

Homepage URL: http://home.ied.edu.hk/~yccheng/

Professor Yin Cheong CHENG is Emeritus Professor (Education) of The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). Prof. Cheng is also Senior Research Fellow of EdUHK Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change. Previously he had served as Advisor (Academic Development)/ Research Chair Professor/ Chair Professor/Vice-President/ acting President. He had been elected as the President of World Educational Research Association (WERA) (2012-2014) and the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA) (2004-2008). He had served as a full member of the University Grants Committee, a panel member of Research Grants Council, and a member of the Quality Education Fund Steering Committee of the Hong Kong SAR Government. Previously he was the chairman of the Tin Ka Ping Foundation's advisory council.

Prof. Cheng holds a doctorate from Harvard University. His research interest includes education reforms, leadership development, paradigm shift, teacher education, higher education, and school management. Prof. Cheng has published 24 academic books and over 250 book chapters and journal articles in Australia, Hong Kong, Korea, Mainland, Netherlands, Germany, Slovenia, Israel, Taiwan, Thailand, USA, and UK. Some of his publications have been translated into Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, Spanish, Czech, Thai and Persian languages. He was the editor in chief of the Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education and Development (1998-2003). He had served on the advisory boards of 17 international journals. He was also the associate editor of the International Journal of Educational Management (UK).

Prof. Cheng's research has won him a number of international awards and recognition including the Awards for Excellence from the Literati Network in UK from 1995 to 2017. In 2021, 2022, and 2023, he was ranked as the top 2% most-cited scientists by Stanford University global ranking list (education, career long).

He has served as panel member, external examiner or reviewer for local and international universities and research institutions. He had been invited to provide consultancy services to national and international projects in Brunei Darussalam, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, Korea, Mainland China, Netherlands, Macao, and Thailand. Prof. Cheng has also been invited to give over 125 keynote/plenary/prestigious presentations by national and international organizations. Prof. Cheng has very fruitful experiences in organizing and conducting leadership development programs, seminars and workshops for local and international principals and education leaders particularly to implement educational reforms in the past decades. 

Recent external appointments

1. Immediate Past President of the World Education Research Association (2014-2016)
2. Member of the advisory board of Global Education Futures (GEF) Forum hosted by Moscow’s Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology co-founded by Skolkovo Foundation ( Russia) and MIT (US). (since September 2014)
3. Member of the International Advisory Committee for the implementation of Saudi Arabia K-12 Education Reform Strategy, co-ordinated by the Tatweer for Educational Services (T4EDU) (since May 2013)
4. International Juror for the 2014 WISE Awards invited by the World Innovation Summit in Education (WISE) of Qatar Foundation, Doha (since December 2013)
5. Chairman of the Advisory Board of Tin Ka Ping Foundation (1 January 2011- 31 December 2016) and director of Board of Tin Ka Ping Foundation (since January 2013)
6. Member of the Research and Innovation Advisory Board (RIAB) - of the High Education Teaching and Learning Association (since December 2013)
7. Associate Editor of International Journal of Educational Management (IJEM) (since June 2006)