Dr. Lam is a barrister with a focus on corporate, commercial and financial law, an international expert in corporate governance and an experienced independent director of listed companies and investment funds, and public-sector organizations. He is a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the Baptist University Centre of Corporate Governance and Financial Policy, a Fellow and a Member of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors, an Adjunct Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Department of Management as well as a Visiting Professor at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. Dr. Lam is committed to community service and interested in public policy and world affairs, currently serving as a director of East-West Center Foundation, the Honorary Treasurer of the Hong Kong-Vietnam Chamber of Commerce, the Chairman of Monte Jade Science and Technology Association of Hong Kong and an Honorary Research Fellow at the HKU Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Incorporating the Centre of Asian Studies). He has served as a part-time Member of the Central Policy Unit of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Dr. Lam holds a BSc in sciences and mathematics, an MSc in systems science, and an MBA from the University of Ottawa in Canada, a post-graduate diploma in public administration from Carleton University in Canada, a post-graduate diploma in English and Hong Kong law and an LLB (Hons) in law from the Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK, a PCLL in law (and has completed the Bar Course) from the City University of Hong Kong and a PhD in the area of economic development from the University of Hong Kong. He has also attended executive development programs at Harvard University, the University of Oxford and Tsinghua University in China.