Dr. Winnie W.Y. Law
Deputy Director and Principal Lecturer
Centre for Civil Society and Governance
The University of Hong Kong
B.Plan., M.Plan. (Auckland), Ph.D. (HKU)

Fields of interest
Environmental education and training, social impact assessment, community planning, public engagement and sustainable communities

Winnie Law is the Deputy Director and Principal Lecturer of the Centre for Civil Society and Governance at the University of Hong Kong. She assists the Programme Director to develop and implement programmes and projects in the field of sustainability.

Having obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in New Zealand, Winnie Law is keen on both urban and rural sustainable development issues and is particularly interested in integrating sustainability theories into practice. Her main research areas are civic engagement, social impact assessment, and education and training for sustainable development.

Winnie Law teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on concepts of sustainable development, urban planning and environmental management and social sustainability. Over the past 10 years, she has supervised more than 35 master students in the area of sustainability under the MSc (Environmental Management) programme and has 7 Phil/MPhil candidates on topics including agricultural policy, country park visitor management, civic engagement, etc.

Winnie Law has served on various NGOs and government committees. She is currently a director of the Conservancy Association (the longest established local green group in Hong Kong) and the Conservancy Association Centre of Heritage. Winnie Law also sits on a number of HKSAR Government’s advisory committees including Environmental Campaign Committee (Vice-Chairman, EE&CA Projects Vetting Sub-committee), Steering Committee for Restored Landfill Revitalisation Funding Scheme and Agricultural Products Scholarship Fund Advisory Committee.

At the regional level, Winnie Law was commissioned by the EU and ENDP as a planning and social monitoring expert for their city planning and environmental management programmes in Vietnam. She also reviews books for Urban Policy and Research Journal (Taylor & Francis Inc) and reviews papers for Journal of Urban Planning International (China).

Prior to her current post, Winnie Law was the Assistant Director and Principal Lecturer of the Kadoorie Institute of The University of Hong Kong between 2012 and 2016 contributing to the Institute’s development and management, teaching and research objectives. She also managed the Lung Fu Shan Environmental Education Centre for The University of Hong Kong and Environmental Protection Department of HKSAR Government between 2008 and 2016.