Dr He Jingwei, Alex is Associate Professor in the Division of Public Policy and Acting Director of the Institute for Public Policy at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Prior to his tenured appointment at HKUST, he taught at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) from 2011 to 2022. He received his PhD degree in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Dr He specializes in public policy analysis, health policy and governance, and social policy reforms, with particular focus on East Asia. He has published extensively in these areas, contributing articles to leading international journals and publishing houses, including Public Administration Review, Policy Sciences, The China Quarterly, Health Policy & Planning, Social Science & Medicine, Governance, Journal of Contemporary China, Social Policy & Administration, Policy & Society, and Health Policy. He also has a rich portfolio of academic articles and book chapters published in Chinese. Dr He has been ranked by Stanford as the world's top 2% most cited scholars in the field of political science and public administration for two consecutive years (2022, 2023).
In May 2021, the University Grants Council (UGC) announced the results of the 2020 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), Hong Kong’s official scheme assessing the research performance and achievement of public universities. All eight public universities in Hong Kong participated in the disciplinary area of political science (including public administration, public policy, and international relations), or Unit of Assessment #25 (UoA 25), submitting their best research impact cases. In the entire Unit, Dr He's impact case was among the only two research impact cases unanimously rated ‘outstanding’ (four star)—the top score—by the international expert panel.
Since 2014, Dr He has received various external as well as internal research grants totaling to HK$ 5 million, including seven major projects funded by the General Research Fund (GRF, x4), Public Policy Research Funding Scheme (PPR), the Early Career Scheme (ECS), and the World Health Organization (APO, x2). Two of his GRF projects were rated 5.0 full score by the international review panel.
In a high-profile report jointly published by the World Bank, the World Health Organization and the Chinese Government in 2016, titled "Healthy China: Deepening Health Reform in China, Building High-Quality and Value-Based Service Delivery", six of Dr He's research works are heavily cited, making him one of the very few international scholars recognized in such a high-level study.
Dr He is Associate Editor of Policy and Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Policy Research (SSCI Q1) and the Journal of Asian Public Policy (SSCI Q1), Executive Member of the East Asian Social Policy Network (EASP), Adjunct Research Fellow of the Center for China and Globalization (Beijing-based key think-tank), and the alumnus of the Ronald Coase Institute. He also sits in the editorial boards of Urban Governance (Elsevier), Journal of Public Administration (公共行政評論), and Chinese Public Administration Review (公共管理評論). He was the recipient of 2023 Best Policy Research Award of CPSG (Chinese Policy Scholars Group, 留美公共政策學會), twice the EdUHK President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Research, Dean's Research Prize of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (2016, 2017, and 2022). He held the Lowenstein Fellowship, the Ronald Coase Institute Fellowship, and NUS Research Scholarship.
Dr He serves as anonymous reviewer of many premier international journals, including Policy Sciences, The China Quarterly, Policy Studies Journal, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Social Policy, and Governance.
As a policy scholar, Dr He is actively engaged in policy advocacy. His articles appeared in leading newspapers, including China Daily, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Ming Pao and Singtao Daily. He was interviewed by the Phoenix TV, China Central Television (English channel), The Straits Times, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), ATV, China Radio International, and CBS News in the US on various policy issues.
In May 2021, the University Grants Council (UGC) announced the results of the 2020 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), Hong Kong’s official scheme assessing the research performance and achievement of public universities. All eight public universities in Hong Kong participated in the disciplinary area of political science (including public administration, public policy, and international relations), or Unit of Assessment #25 (UoA 25), submitting their best research impact cases. In the entire Unit, Dr He's impact case was among the only two research impact cases unanimously rated ‘outstanding’ (four star)—the top score—by the international expert panel.
Since 2014, Dr He has received various external as well as internal research grants totaling to HK$ 5 million, including seven major projects funded by the General Research Fund (GRF, x4), Public Policy Research Funding Scheme (PPR), the Early Career Scheme (ECS), and the World Health Organization (APO, x2). Two of his GRF projects were rated 5.0 full score by the international review panel.
In a high-profile report jointly published by the World Bank, the World Health Organization and the Chinese Government in 2016, titled "Healthy China: Deepening Health Reform in China, Building High-Quality and Value-Based Service Delivery", six of Dr He's research works are heavily cited, making him one of the very few international scholars recognized in such a high-level study.
Dr He is Associate Editor of Policy and Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Policy Research (SSCI Q1) and the Journal of Asian Public Policy (SSCI Q1), Executive Member of the East Asian Social Policy Network (EASP), Adjunct Research Fellow of the Center for China and Globalization (Beijing-based key think-tank), and the alumnus of the Ronald Coase Institute. He also sits in the editorial boards of Urban Governance (Elsevier), Journal of Public Administration (公共行政評論), and Chinese Public Administration Review (公共管理評論). He was the recipient of 2023 Best Policy Research Award of CPSG (Chinese Policy Scholars Group, 留美公共政策學會), twice the EdUHK President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Research, Dean's Research Prize of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (2016, 2017, and 2022). He held the Lowenstein Fellowship, the Ronald Coase Institute Fellowship, and NUS Research Scholarship.
Dr He serves as anonymous reviewer of many premier international journals, including Policy Sciences, The China Quarterly, Policy Studies Journal, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Social Policy, and Governance.
As a policy scholar, Dr He is actively engaged in policy advocacy. His articles appeared in leading newspapers, including China Daily, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Ming Pao and Singtao Daily. He was interviewed by the Phoenix TV, China Central Television (English channel), The Straits Times, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), ATV, China Radio International, and CBS News in the US on various policy issues.
