Past Speaker

Dr. Ming Li is a lecturer at The Chinese University of Hong Kong who teaches science classics in general education and conducts research on education for sustainable development. He has developed initiatives on student-centered pedagogy, flipped classrooms, blended learning, peer learning, and experiential learning. Dr. LI is an accredited PASS Supervisor and certified SI Supervisor. He has published over 20 papers and received various teaching

Dr. Stella Zorpa is an experienced educator specializing in English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction since 1998. She holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction and a Master’s in Educational Leadership. She is dedicated to both teaching students and training educators. Her passion lies in developing effective curricula and fostering excellence in education.

Igor Rodrigues, Ph.D. in Public Policy and postdoctoral student at ENAP, is a researcher with interests in Economics, Education, and Public Policy. Awarded for the best thesis of 2024.

Dr. Elaine Ng is a Senior Lecturer at the ELT Unit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She serves as a faculty coordinator, managing and teaching various undergraduate EAP and ESP courses for the Faculty of Medicine. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Sydney, her professional interests include Bilingualism research, CLIL, Metacognition, and Performing

Currently a Senior Education Specialist at Free State Department of Education, South Africa as a learning facilitator of FET Life Sciences. Furthermore, she is a Post-doc fellow and a part-time lecturer in the humanities faculty at the Central University of Technology (Free State, South Africa. She holds a PhD in Educational Psychology: (University of Free

Vered Shomron Ph.D, is a lecturer and pedagogical instructor at the Kibbutzim College of education, Tel -Aviv. Her specialization is in the field of special education and learning strategies for adolescents with learning disabilities. Areas of interest are psychological resilience, teachers’ sense of competence and online learning. Her doctoral thesis focused on quality mediation between parents

Her research is inter-disciplinary and engages in Latina and Caribbean area studies. Her work, informed by Critical and Freirean Pedagogies, investigates lived experiences and human conditions in those geopolitical cultural communities.