Prof. Alex HE Jingwei, Associate Professor of the Division of Public Policy (PPOL) has been recognized with the Transition and Developing Economies Award 2025 by the International Public Policy Association (IPPA). 

This accolade honors Prof. He’s extensive expertise in health policy, policy design and innovations, population aging, and social policy, while recognizing his significant contributions to the advancement of public policy and public administration in the context of developing or transition countries.

Through a rigorous evaluation process, Prof. He has been selected based on his “established record of theoretical and empirical scholarly publications as well as service to the profession”. He is the first Chinese scholar to receive the prestigious Transition and Developing Economies Award since its inception in 2021, and is one of the few recipients from Asia, joining a distinguished group of awardees across the globe.

The International Public Policy Association awards the Transition and Developing Economies Award biennially to an academic or researcher employed on a full-time basis either in a university or a policy research center located in a country identified as a developing or transition economy, and whose publications (book or articles) are directly related to public policy and/or public administration issues in one or more such countries.

Prof. He will officially receive the award at the 7th International Conference on Public Policy in Chiang Mai, Thailand this July. Please join us in congratulating Prof. He! 

More about Prof. Alex HE Jingwei: 

Prof. Alex HE Jingwei is Associate Professor at the Division of Public Policy (PPOL) at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where he also serves as Acting Director of the Institute for Public Policy and Co-Director of the Master of Public Policy Program.

Before joining HKUST, he spent 11 years as Associate Head of the Department of Asian and Policy Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong. He holds a PhD in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

Prof. He specializes in policy process theories, health policy, governance, and comparative social policy, particularly in East Asia. He has published widely in prestigious journals, including Public Administration Review, Governance, and Health Policy, and has been ranked among the world’s top 2% most cited scientists in public administration and political science since 2021.

In the 2020 Research Assessment Exercise, his impact case received an “outstanding” rating from an international expert panel. Since 2014, he has secured nine external competitive grants, with two GRF projects achieving perfect scores.

Prof. He serves as Associate Editor for Policy and Society and Journal of Asian Public Policy, is an Executive Member of the East Asian Social Policy Network (EASP), and a Ronald Coase Institute alumnus. He has won multiple awards, such as Chinese Policy Scholar (CPSG) Best Policy Research Award 2023, and held the Lowenstein Fellowship, Ronald Coase Institute Fellowship, and NUS Research Scholarship. Actively engaged in policy advocacy, his insights have appeared in major publications and he has been interviewed by various media outlets.