Professor Joshua Mok Ka-ho is the President and Chair Professor of Comparative Policy at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK). He was the Provost and Vice-President (Academic and Research) before taking up the presidentship on 1 September 2026.
Professor Mok has successfully established academic, research and administrative expertise not only in Hong Kong but also in Chinese Mainland and the United Kingdom (UK). Before joining HSUHK, he was the Vice-President and Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy at Lingnan University. Prior to that, Professor Mok has held leadership positions at various universities, including Vice-President (Research and Development) and Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at The Education University of Hong Kong; Associate Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at The University of Hong Kong; and Chair Professor and Founding Director of the Centre of East Asian Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.
A highly respected scholar and educator, Professor Mok has been recognised among the world’s top 2% scientists by Stanford University, acknowledged as a top leader in Social Sciences and Humanities by Research.com and in Comparative and International Education Research by the World Council of Comparative Education Societies. Recently, he was named as a top scholar by ScholarGPS in 2026, being ranked 1st in Asian Studies and 7th in Higher Education Research over the past five years.