2 years in UNESCO Center, Macao Foundation, to manage exhibitions, events and fund program planning and promoting

2 and a half years in Venetian Macao Resort Hotel in managing exhibition, forum, catering event and accommodation.

Assistant Development Manager at Hong Kong Arts Festival Society Ltd

Marketing and Development Manager at Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra

Head of Marketing and Development at Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra

Koh Mui Leng joined the arts in 2004 and is an experienced arts marketer through her arts career at both Singapore's prestigious national orchestras - Singapore Chinese Orchestra and Singapore Symphony Orchestra. She graduated with a marketing and management double major commerce degree from Curtin University in Australia. She is a certified piano performer and learnt erhu in her school days. As an avid music and arts lover, she attends arts performances and marketing seminars to keep herself abreast of marketing trends to promote music concerts.

Tony is a mass-media-practitioner-turned-theatre-producer, he has served over the years a long list of leading NGOs as well as arts & culture organisations. He was academically trained as a biologist in Toronto, Canada, before heading back to his home town to work as a programme and event production assistant at Metro Broadcast and launching a varied career included stints as a curator, magazine culture writer, TED talk host, marketing strategist and guest lecturer.

Over the years, Tony with a minimalistic style of management and administration has developed a good rapport with Home Affairs Bureau, Arts Development Council, West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, District Councils, festivals as well as critics and practitioners in the arts and culture sector. He is currently with Tang Shu-Wing Theatre Studio Limited, overseeing an award-winning 9-million theatre education and public engagement project under the company renowned in Asia and Europe for its contemporary staging of plays written by William Shakespeare.

20 years in arts administration.

Involved in venue management at Hong Kong Cultural Centre from 1996 to 1999 and then the Hong Kong Science Museum from 2003 to 2007, followed by Sha Tin Town Hall from 2007 to 2012 to have exposure on operational management, building management and venue partners' management.

Involved in event management and film programmes execution at the Film Programmes Office from 1999 to 2003 to assist in the Hong Kong International Film Festivals for 2 years before it became an independent corporation.

At the present, I'm working in the Cultural Presentations Office to be responsible for programming of mult-arts from 2012 onwards.

6 years of arts management experience (e.g. organizing programmes, workshops, exhibition; artwork registration, etc.)

Working as Internal Secretary for Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies for 10 years, as producer / deputy producer for more than 50 theatre productions, festival & Drama Awards Presentation Ceremony in Hong Kong within last 10 years. At the same time, I am the founder and administrative director of The Radiant Theatre Limited from 2009, and the company start to be Venue Partners of Shatin Town Hall since 2012.

Stanley’s passion is to create sustainable development opportunities to grow the next generation trombone virtuoso of Asia. He founded the Hong Kong Trombone Association in 2009 and subsequently created the annual SliderAsia Music Festival in 2011 which is committed to foster global opportunities for exchange, learning and appearance of Asian trombonists. He has brought the Association to officially become the first Asian affiliate of the International Trombone Association, also has globally penetrated the SliderAsia movement to have connected and involved trombone professionals, advocates, educators and enthusiasts across continents towards objectives of the Association.

Stanley holds a master degree in business administration. He was formerly an independent professional business consultant with substantial experience dealing with regional customers of diverse backgrounds and cultures from commercial, education and non-profits. His experience covers leadership and management of projects in information technology and computer system, data networking, finance and accounting, commercial insurance, strategic marketing and business outsourcing services. Stanley also serves in a number of voluntary appointments at government committee, charities, schools and service clubs in Hong Kong and mainland China focused in education, youth development and welfare for the elderlies.

Stanley is particularly looking at the networking and collaboration opportunities offered by this EMA program of HKIED among executives representing leadership of the regional arts scene putting together expertise and experience for further development.

Shanghai Concert Hall was originally named Nanjing Theater when it was established on March 26th, 1930. In 1959, the present name of Shanghai Concert Hall was adopted. Since then, it has been one of the most popular centers for music activities in the city. As the first professional concert hall in China, Shanghai Concert Hall has always been a cultural landmark of Shanghai. World-class artists, including violinist Pinchas Zukerman, Isaac Stern, pianist Andras Schiff, Maurizio Pollini have made their marvelous performances on the stage of Shanghai Concert Hall.

As the Deputy Director of Public Relations in Shanghai Concert Hall, I am mainly in charge of the communication with the media, the promotion of the concerts and some non-profit activities such as Master Class and Baroque+.

Before I work for Shanghai Concert Hall, I had been a journalist for 12 years in Shanghai Morning Post. I wrote some articles about cultural events, performances and so on.

Christine graduated from Shanghai University in 2003, major in Arts and Cultural Management, has been working in Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre (SDAC, www.china-drama.com), which is the only national theatre group in Shanghai, for over ten years. From 2003 to 2012, as the PR manger of SDAC, Huang has been working for dozens of local and co-operation theatre productions, as well as many programmes and festivals organized by SDAC. In 2012, Huang changed to be a producer, since then, Huang has produced over ten productions in different styles such as Scarlet Heart (adapted by a popular TV series), A Lesson Before Dying (written by Romulus Linney), Beauvoir and Sartre (an original play by a Chinese playwright), HAN XIN (a story about a famous historical hero), Eighteenth Spring (co-operated with a Hong Kong group), School for Wives (written by Molière, co-operated with French team), The Crowd (an original play, co-operated with Hong Kong International Festival), Death and the Maiden (written by Ariel Dorfman, directed by Paul Garrington) etc. Huang now is also the programme manger of Shanghai International Contemporary Theatre Festival (ACT Festival, www.actfest.com), which started from 2005. In 2014, Huang joined the APP Camping for Asia producers in Korea and now Huang is taking the two-year EMA master course (part time) in Hong Kong.

Henry Leung is graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Manitoba in Canada and now studying the Executive Master of Arts in Arts Management & Entrepreneurship Programme in The Hong Kong Institute of Education. He is a Vocalist as well as an Art Manager, he has worked for some of Hong Kong’s most prominent flagship art organisations including the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and The Hong Kong Children’s Choir in different positions including programming, touring, sponsorship and education outreach. Currently, he is the Senior Project Manager of the Premiere Performances of Hong Kong in promoting chamber music. Over the years, he has worked with many international artists and organized many concert tours to different cities including Shanghai, Xian, Guangzhou, Kagoshima, Vancouver, Washington D.C. and Sydney etc.

Programme manager, serving in the programme department at Guangdong Modern Dance Company. she worked for several local cultural institutions and branding projects, including Xinghai Concert Hall, Guangdong Dance Festival and Guangzhou Opera House. She also involved in making varied projects.

A graduate from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts majoring in Acting, Ms. Pong is a veteran actress. She is also an experienced teacher of acting and is currently a guest lecturer at the Academy of Film of Baptist University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Institute of Education. She continues to be active in the local drama scene with coaching students for public performances. In her capacity as Head of Planning for the Music Children Foundation, Ms. Pong combines her equal passion for drama and education, and contributes to the programming by adding elements of drama into the music programmes, making them more fun and thereby facilitates the children’s learning.

Cissy joined swissnex China in 2009, and is now working as Head of Interdisciplinary and Special Projects. She is mainly responsible for curating and coordinating Science and Art Projects as well as public events. Besides, she also sometimes works as arts consultant for artists in residence programs. She collaborates closely with the art & design community and supports a lot on cool & innovative ideas. Previously, she worked for Pro Helvetia (the Swiss Arts Council) and Shanghai Electronic Arts Festival. She holds a bachelor's degree in Arts Administration from Shanghai Conservatory of Music and is now working on her master degree in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship at HKIED.

Apart from her daily routine, she is also producing and hosting an independent online podcast named “midnight poems” and organizes poetry salons & interdisciplinary workshops from time to time.

Wendy Tsang has a passion in making exciting art accessible for all ages and backgrounds, with a focus especially on young people in Hong Kong. Since 2001, she has been working at the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation. She was promoted from Visual Arts Manager to Assistant Director in 2006, and was recently promoted to Director in 2016. Through studying for HKIED’s EMA(AME), it has given her space away from the day-to-day operations, and has allowed her to rethink and reflect on her work from different perspectives. It has also been a very valuable opportunity to connect and learn from her peers. In the future, she aims to focus on enhancing her team and organization’s capacity for organizing large-scale community arts programmes that nurture the local art scene and celebrate youth talent

Wilson obtained his Master Degree in Business Information Technology from Middlesex University in London after graduated from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Wilson has been working in the field of arts administration for over fifteen years, he is currently General Manager of The Hong Kong Children’s Choir, who supervises 30 full-time administrative staffs and around a hundred of part-time arts tutors. Wilson is striving to obtain the Executive Master of Arts in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship in HKIEd and continue to contribute the arts and cultural industry in Hong Kong.

Eric has actively involved in the arts scene of Malaysia as an arts administrator since 2004. He is currently works as the executive director of Oriental Arts and Cultural Center which is the arts center based in Kuala Lumpur. He also formed the Inxo Arts and Cultural Foundation in 2015, a non-profit organisations with the objective to promote and support local artist in Malaysia. He also believe in order to change the arts ecology, arts education is very important- bring arts to the grassroots. Hence he started a festival called "Pangkor Island Festival", and organised a community arts festival happened in a small island since 2013. This festival has been successfully attracted about 50,000 tourists for these past 3 years.

Anca is responsible for programming and producing performing arts initiatives at the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation, a charity that promotes life skills through inspiring arts experiences for over 80,000 young people every year. She believes in using art to empower youngsters to have a voice and initiate change.

Before returning to Hong Kong, Anca pursued arts marketing at London’s Southbank Centre and Young Vic Theatre, where she worked with some of the world’s greatest established and emerging artists. She attained her BA in Communications and in Environmental Studies at University of Pennsylvania, and an MSc in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics.

Anca also works as a choreographer and a freelance marketing/PR consultant, with clients including DANCE Kho, West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, Sutton PR Asia and HKI-SLAM.

Erik is an independent curator, producer and promoter of interdisciplinary and intercultural projects. A member of "Asian Producers' Platform". He has worked programmer and festival producer in the cultural department of Macao government for more than a decade. He has produced fringe festival, arts festivals, film festivals and other public festival events. He recently focusing on curating international arts collaboration projects and promoting collaborations between asian and international artists.

Erik was one of the founders of “Cheng Hin Drama Club” and “Macau Theatre Federation”. He was appointed to be the executive director of “The 8th Chinese Drama Festival, Macau 2011” and “BOK Festival" since 2015. He is the existing executive director of “Point View Art Association”. In 2009, he founded an arts and creative industries management service company “Creative Links Ltd.” which curating collaborations between public or private sector with business sector to promote the local arts and creative industries to the international market.

In 2009, he produced “Olá Beijing! Macau Contemporary Arts in Beijing” which was the first Macao festival in Beijing. The festival showcased site-specific performances, independent films, indie music concerts and contemporary art exhibitions. In 2014, he curated “Made in Macao” project in Edinburgh Festival Fringe which received five 5 stars reviews. Those programmes were a dance theatre “Playing Landscape” which nominated to Asian Arts Award, a music theatre “Picnic in the Cemetery” and a miniature object theatre “Puzzle the Puzzle”. 

Lee graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in Arts, Event and Stage Management. He now works for the Academy producing and promoting Chinese traditional theatre, and he is pursuing his Executive Master of Arts Degree in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship. Recently, Lee had participated in the "Arena" (2010), “Martyrdom” (2013), “His Butterflies” (2014), "Arena" (2015, Rerun) by Utopia Cantonese Opera Workshop, "The Third Pixel" by Samson Young in Hong Kong Arts Festival 2010 and "The Tree Rhapsody" by Tang Lok-yin in Hong Kong Arts Festival 2011.

Jenny currently the Director of Arts Education and President’s Office of Guangzhou Opera House, the Founder and Director of Guangzhou Opera House Children’s Chorus and Guangzhou Opera House Children’s Ballet, Organizer of the GOH Opening Ceremony, the Founder of Guangzhou Opera House Chorus Festival, the Director of Experimental Theatre the New Dialogue Between Traditional Ink Painting and Music, the Founder of the Arts Management Workshops Creative Huts, which is funded by the 2015 China National Arts Funds, the Producer of Seeds In! GOH Creative Workshop for Parent-child and Guangzhou Opera House Collective Improvisation Camp, the Project Coordinator of Culture Chanel· Guangzhou, Co-producer of 2012 Xinghai International Choir Championship’s Opening Concert, Coordinator of the 8th Chinese Music Golden Bell Award Concert.