Douglas has served in top management positions in several Hong Kong cultural organizations, including, Executive Director of the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Deputy Executive Director of the Hong Kong Tourist Board and inaugural Board Member for the West Kowloon Cultural District.

In 2013, Douglas was elected as the Chair of the Association of Asia Pacific Performing Arts Centres (AAPPAC). The membership of AAPPAC includes the Sydney Opera House and performing arts centres in the Asia-Pacific region.. He was also a founding Vice President of the Asian Arts Festivals Association.

Being the Director of EMBA in Global Fashion, Professor of Graduate Institute of Performing Arts and in the National Normal University, Prof. Hsia has various teaching experience in Universities and Colleges of Taiwan, Hong Kong and China.

Apart from being an art educator, he also involved in advocating cultural policy including being the Vice Chairperson of Directions Governing for the 12-year Basic Edcuation Curricula, National Academy for Education Research. He is a frequent guest speaker and moderator in various conferences including France, Malaysia, Thailand, China. His academic interests include cultural policy, theatre art, arts administration, management, marketing and communication.

Prof. Hsia has also lead various art marketing projects and published books to foster arts education and arts administration enhancement. He is the recipient of 2016 Asia/Pacific Who's Who Vol. XIV , Rifacimento International（RI/AP-CR/2016）.

Mr Jayasekera joined the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority in January 2013. He was formerly Director of Communications and Digital Strategy at London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre where he managed the marketing, press, publications, ticket office and digital teams across the venue’s three theatres. Prior to this he worked for the theatre and entertainment advertising agencies Dewynters, McCabes and M&H Communications for a wide variety of clients including the Royal Opera House, National Theatre and Barbican and on numerous West End musicals and plays. In the digital arena in 2012 he worked on the creation of the Space, a new BBC / Arts Council digital broadcast platform, building on his extensive digital experience which began in 2001 when he worked for onlineclassics.com, one of the world’s first websites offering full-length streamed arts content. He has also served on the boards of East London Dance, Dance East and the Gate Theatre in the UK and is a regular international speaker on Arts Marketing, Branding and Digital.

Prof. Alan Salzenstein currently works in DePaul University leading the Performing Arts Management Program in the School of Music and the MFA/Arts Leadership Program in The Theatre School.

He was Director of the MBA Arts Management Program at Roosevelt University, founding Executive Director for the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, and Executive/Managing Director of many Chicago-area arts organizations including Court Theatre at the University of Chicago, Apple Tree Theatre, etc.

Apart from producing special events like Celebrating Chicago's Seniors on Stage at the historic Chicago Theatre for the City of Chicago, the League of Chicago Theatres' SHOWTIME 2002!, etc., Alan has been a constant guest speaker and moderator for a wide range of arts-related organizations.

Bernadette’s rich experience in institutional advancement is captured in her book “The City with a Heart - Stories of Giving from Hong Kong and Hong Kong University” (情義之都——從港大到香港的捐贈傳奇), published in 2014.

She is Honorary Professor of Practice at The University of Hong Kong, and her academic interests include philanthropic studies, NGO management and civil society. She also teaches a course in fundraising for Hong Kong Institute of Education (EMA in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship) as well as the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts (MFA). She is an advocate of CASE - Council for Advancement and Support of Education, headquartered in Washington DC - currently serving as CASE Asia-Pacific's faculty for the training institutes in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

She received her BA and MPhil in drama from HKU, and pursued theatre studies at New York University as well as in Japan and Germany. She started as a stage director and later also worked in television and radio. She now has a regular column in the Hong Kong Economic Journal.

Dr. Tsui worked in various commercial sectors, cultural and creative organizations in both China and Hong Kong, specializing in corporate administration and management. He was the Finance and Administration Manager of the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre Llimited, Director of Administration and Administrative Officer of the Shantou University Cheung Kong School of Art and Design. Dr. Tsui is now an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Dr.Tsui’s major research areas include cultural and creative industry management studies, commercial operations best practices benchmarking cultural and creative industries. He now runs the “Alive@” at Guangzhou.

Under the leadership of Ms Yau, AFTEC is grown into well-known bilingual through-train theatre and with teaching and learning platforms for primary schoolers to undergraduate and educators. She conceptualises and curates cross-arts learning including ground-breaking programmes such as the Diploma in Integrated Arts, Certificate in Arts Criticism, Sm-ART Youth Project, Bravo! HK Youth Theatre Awards and the HKU Medical Humanities Performance Arts Workshops.

Ms Yau is currently an Adviser to RTHK, Advisor in Arts Criticism/Examiner in Literary Arts and Drama for the HK Arts Development Council and the Advisor to the HK International Young Readers Festival. She is the Hong Kong Scholar to the Clore Leadership Programme 2010-2011 supported by the Home Affairs Department.

Mr. Yu joined the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority in June 2010. He is responsible for steering the planning and development of the performing arts facilities in the District, and for overseeing the strategies and operating models for these facilities. Since joining the WKCDA, Mr. Yu has played a pivotal role in leading the design and construction of the performing arts facilities. He has also overseen a series of pre-opening programmes for dance, drama and theatre arts, music and Xiqu. With over 28 years of experience in arts administration and management, he was formerly the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. He had worked with the Hong Kong Arts Centre for 13 years and served as the Executive Director from 2000 to 2007.