Joshua Mok Ka-ho is the vice president of and chair professor of Comparative Policy at Lingnan University. Before joining Lingnan, he was the vice president of Research and Development and chair professor of Comparative Policy of The Hong Kong Institute of Education, and the associate dean and professor of Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences of The University of Hong Kong. Prior to this, he was appointed as the founding chair professor in East Asian Studies and established the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. He has published extensively in the fields of comparative education policy, comparative development and policy studies, and social development in contemporary China and East Asia.