Angela Ki Che LEUNG received her B.A. in history at the Hong Kong University and her doctoral degree (history) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. She was research fellow at the Academia Sinica of Taipei and has taught in the history department of the National Taiwan University. In July 2010, she was elected Academician of the Academia Sinica.

She was the Vice-President of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (2004-2008), and is at present a Board Member of the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (the French equivalent of RGC), a Panel Member of the European Research Council, and a Trustee of the D. Kim Foundation of the History of Science and Technology in East Asia.  

Leung has published books and articles in English, Chinese and French on charitable organizations in the Ming-Qing period and on the history of medicine and diseases in China of the late imperial and modern periods. Her recent publications include Leprosy in China: A History (Columbia University Press, 2009). Her forthcoming book is an edited volume on health and hygiene in modern Chinese East Asia (Duke University Press). Her present research focus is on medical culture in South China, in particular the Canton/Hong Kong region, in the global and colonial context in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Leung joined the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences in January 2011 as its first full-time director. Before that, she was Chair Professor of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.