Ka Ho Mok

Ka-Ho MOK is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. Before he joined the University of Hong Kong, he was a Chair Professor in East Asian Studies and the Founding Director of the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Bristol. His primary area of research is comparative education policy, with particular reference to development and education governance change in East Asia. Other research interests include social developments and social policy in contemporary China.

His most recent books are Changing Governance and Public Policy in East Asia (2008); Education Reform and Education Policy in East Asia (2006), Globalization and Higher Education in East Asia (2005); Globalization and Marketization: A Comparative Analysis of Hong Kong and Singapore (2004); Globalization and Educational Restructuring in the Asia and Pacific Region (2003) and Centralization and Decentralization: Educational Reforms and Changing Governance in Chinese Societies (2003).

Professor Mok is currently Editor of the internationally refereed Journal of Asian Public Policy and he is involved in editing special issues for international journals such as Pacific Review, Globalization, Societies & Education, Asia Pacific Journal of Education, International Journal of Educational Management and Policy Futures in Education. He has also published extensively in the fields of comparative education policy, governance and public administration and social development in contemporary China and East Asia.