About
The HKU-UBS Sustainable and Social Innovation Leadership Programme (SSILP) is co-led by the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong and investment bank UBS.
Background
NGOs play a prominent role in developing society, improving communities and promoting the well-being of all. Leaders in NGOs are the key drivers who direct, shape, strategise, and energise the team to achieve these organisations’ missions. However, in Hong Kong, with the recent retirement tide of the baby-boomer generation and the increase in immigration of middle-age professionals to other countries, many local NGOs face challenges of a succession plan and have to appoint relatively green leaders.
In view of the situation, there is a timely need to nurture this new or future generation of NGO leaders to maintain the effective functioning of the NGOs, which will benefit society as a whole eventually. Hence the HKU-UBS Sustainable and Social Innovation Leadership Programme was preliminarily launched in 2022.
Mission & Vision
The overall missions of HKU-UBS (SSILP) are:
1. Build capacity and competence of NGO current and future leaders
2. Develop network and collaborations among NGOs, philanthropies, public Sector and academics
3. Incubate and innovate new projects that are sustainable.
We envision to bring influence to the nurturing of emerging talents in the non-profit sector not only in Hong Kong, but also in the Greater Bay Area in the future as we gradually expand our programme in the coming years.
Department of Social Work and
Social Administration,
The University of Hong Kong
UBS
Prof. Amy Chow
Head & Si Yuan Professor in Health and Social Work
Prof. Cheryl Chui
Assistant Professor
Mr. Rob Stewart
Head Corporate Communications APAC
Ms. Ming Geng
Head of Social Impact and Philanthropy, Greater China
Project Team
Department of Social Work and
Social Administration,
The University of Hong Kong
UBS
Dr. Lu Ke
Lecturer
Ms. Nicole Law
Programme Officer
Ms. Lena Wong
Consultant
Ms. Yuhe Gu
Research Assistant
