Ms. Angel FM CHAN is the Assistant Chief Executive of the Christian Family Service Centre (CFSC). Prior to taking up the corporate management role in a multi-social service organisation in Hong Kong, her roles spanned over elderly care, primary health care, and community development services. Ms. Chan has been working in the aged care services for more than 20 years, specialising in developing innovative services/products for the people over 50 years of age through different methodologies, like design thinking and life design for the third age.

She is currently the Executive Director of the ACDC (Shaanxi), responsible for the daily management and operation. At the same time, she is also the Deputy Director of the Special Committee for Elderly Social Work of Shaanxi Social Work Association and the Deputy Director of the Incubation Base of Shaanxi Basic-level Elderly Association. She has plentiful experience in project design, management, training, monitoring, supervision and evaluation in the fields of rural community development, disaster management, child development, and elderly development.

Michael W. Hodin, Ph.D. is CEO of the Global Coalition on Aging, Managing Partner at High Lantern Group, and a Fellow at Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College. He has spoken internationally on the topic of aging, including at G20, APEC, Davos, and the World Knowledge Forum (WKF). He is also a blogger on Medium. Mike is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and from 2010-2013, was Adjunct Senior Fellow with a focus on population aging. In 2013, Mike was invited by then-Committee Chairman Bill Nelson (D-FL) to lead a Members’ Roundtable with the U.S.

TANG Jun, researcher of Institute of Sociology and vice president of Senior Experts Association, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Since 1986, he has been engaged in social policy research and has done more than 80 related research topics. He has published more than 7 million words of treatise and about 80 thousand words translated. In recent years, he has paid more attention to the elderly security issues in China, including elderly services and long-term care security.

Yujie, Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, Renmin University of China, and Supervisor of doctoral students. She is member of the First National Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Professional Levels of Social Workers, deputy secretary-general of the China Association for Social Work Education and Director of the Commission for Older Social Work, Executive Director of the Beijing Association of Social Workers and Special Professor of the Open University of China.

Dr. Lou Vivian W. Q. is the Director of Sau Po Centre on Ageing, and Associate Professor at Department of Social Work & Social Administration at The University of Hong Kong. Her research interests focus on family gerontology, in particular family caregiving for dementia, stroke, end-of-life older adults, and social adaptation and mental health of Chinese older adults and family caregivers. She also has a keen interest in building evidence-based models to empower older adults and their families.

Yong is the president of Hualing Smart Elderly Care Industry Development Center. He has served as a member and deputy director of the party group in the office of the National Working Committee on Aging, vice chairman of the general research group on the strategy of national response to population aging, secretary-general of the National Intelligent Pension Expert Committee, deputy director of the Policy Research Center of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and editor-in-chief of the magazine China Civil Affairs.

Chu Viet Nga is Program Manager at HelpAge International in Vietnam – an INGO focusing on the well-being of older persons and adaption to aging population. She is one of the national specialists on the Intergenerational Self-Help Club (ISHC) - a sustainable, comprehensive, and affordable aged care model, using community-driven development and active aging approach. From an internationally funded initiative, ISHC was acknowledged by the Vietnamese government as a national model and established nationwide under the direct management of the Association of the Elderly. Currently, Ms.

Dr. Han is one of the leading gerontologists in Korea and Director of the Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly (RISBLE) where she has developed many programs for older people over the past 18 years. She is also the Head of Commission of Elderly Policy in Busan Metropolitan City Government. Her work has been officially recognized both at local and governmental levels. Her latest award was the Mayor’s Prize for her many initiatives to improve the lives of seniors in Busan, Korea’s second largest urban hub.