Empowering Local Leaders: Building Social Change

Dr. Fred Ku, Associate Dean (Undergraduate Studies) at CUHK Business School, is an accomplished scholar and award-winning educator in fields of business economics, social values and ESG. He is also the founder and director of CUHK BESGO Programme, which aims to cultivate social mindset of budding business leaders and proactively drive cross-sector collaboration to co-create greater social good. Besides, Dr. Ku provides training and consultancy services to businesses and government agencies.

My sustainability goals for 2023:

I aspire to see Hong Kong nurturing socially conscious leaders, and businesses prioritizing social value alongside economic profit, ultimately fostering a sustainable and inclusive society.

Sean is a Content Product Manager and Lead Corporate Instructor at Preface, chiefly responsible for B2B technology content strategy and delivery. Anchoring his experience, he obtained a distinction in MSc Global Politics at LSE and was a Microsoft Account Tech Strategist, advising 20+ major HK-based financial institutions and conglomerates. Sean graduated from CUHK with a First Class Honours in International Business and Chinese Enterprise, alongside a Philosophy minor.

Ms HSU Siu-man is the Executive Director of The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups (HKFYG). She is also a Hong Kong Representative to The All-China Women’s Federation.

Long involved in public affairs, she sits as an elected Member of the Hong Kong Council of Social Services Executive Committee. Ms Hsu also currently serves on several Boards and Committees of different Hong Kong SAR Government bureaux, including as a member of the Social Welfare Advisory Committee and on the Social Welfare Department’s Child Fatality Review Panel. She also sits on the Commission on Poverty; Committee on Services for Youth at Risk and the Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund Task Force. Furthermore, she sits on the Social Welfare Department’s Child Fatality Review Panel; the Department of Health’s Human Organ Transplant Board; as a Member of the Education Bureau’s Quality Education Fund Dissemination and Promotion Sub-committee; and on the Public Libraries Advisory Committee. She formerly served as a Member on the Committee on Prevention of Student Suicides of the Education Bureau.

Ms Hsu is a member of Advisory Committee of the Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; a Treasurer of The Hong Kong Social Workers Association; a Council Member of Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises Limited, and a Member of The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong’s Information, Education & Communication Sub-committee. She sits on the Advisory Board of FutureGEN Young Women Leaders Award and was previously a Member of the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health.

Ms Hsu has an established record for initiating pioneering programmes in counselling, as well as in leadership development. She oversees Federation units which include the Youth Employment Network and the Social Innovation Centre, as well as the Leadership Institute.

She holds a B.S.W from Hong Kong Baptist University and an M.Soc.Sc in Counselling from The City University of Hong Kong. She obtained a Certificate in Cultivating Leadership in Education from Harvard Business School, and is now pursuing an EMBA programme in CUHK Business School.

My Sustainability Goals for 2025:

• Based on SDG 3: Good Health and Wellbeing
  Extending the notion of wellbeing, I believe it begins with the concept and culture of caring. This might begin with the small things, greetings towards neighbours for example. Or politeness to vendors and shop keepers and bus drivers. Or to be mindful of others’ needs on public transport. Good health and Wellbeing begins with caring, to our selves and others. And to make it sustainable, we as adults, must set an example to young people, so that it becomes second nature and not an affectation.
• Based on SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
  Communities are made up of generations and my sustainable goal would be human connection. In Hong Kong, we are facing an aging population with a declining birth rate. With fewer and fewer young people to care for the elderly, the reliance on technology, and AI, will become greater. Human interactions, through talking, emotions, sharing, touching, can never be replaced by technology, and we have to ensure that we are never too busy to forget our neighbours and others in the community who might be vulnerable to being left alone.