Board members

Bo-Yung Kim

Chair

Yeungnam University
boyung@boyung.net

Bo-Yung Kim is a Professor at Yeungnam University in South Korea, where he teaches social welfare policy, social welfare administration, and social welfare laws and practices. His research interests cover social service delivery, social care policy, and policy development and process.

Julia Shu-Huah Wang

Secretary

National Taiwan University
julia.sh.wang@gmail.com

Julia Shu-Huah Wang is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work at National Taiwan University. Her research focuses on social welfare policies, poverty alleviation interventions, immigration policies, and the well-being of families. She is currently conducting research on global welfare regimes as well as social safety nets in East Asia.

Qian Jiwei

National University of Singapore
jiwei.qian@nus.edu.sg

Qian Jiwei is a Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. His current research interests include Innovation policy, Social policy, and Health Policy.

Chung-yang Yeh

Soochow University
chungyang.yeh@gmail.com

Chung-Yang Yeh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Soochow University, Taiwan. His main research interest focuses on welfare attitude, comparative pension policy, and East Asian welfare states. A recent research project funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan) compares pension preferences in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.

Sophia Seungyoon Lee

Chung-Ang University
leesophiasy@gmail.com

Sophia Seung-yoon Lee is a full professor of social policy at Chung-Ang University, South Korea. Her major research fields are East Asian welfare states and labour markets, precarious workers, institutionalism and comparative research methodology. She was the first Vice-Chairperson of the Youth Policy Coordination Committee in the Prime Minister’s Office.

Kiwako Endo

Kinjo Gakuin University
endokiwako@gmail.com

Kiwako Endo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Community and Social Welfare, Kinjo Gakuin University, Japan. Having a background in Social Work, her research interest is in welfare provision, community care and social policy. Her extensive research fields include ageing, long-term care, family policy, social isolation and housing policy.

He Jingwei Alex

The Education University of Hong Kong
jwhe@eduhk.hk

Alex Jingwei He is Associate Head and Associate Professor of the Department of Asian and Policy Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. He specializes in social policy reforms and health policy and governance in East Asia. He is associate editor of Policy and Society (SSCI Q1) and Journal of Asian Public Policy (SSCI Q1).

Jack Chan

Sun Yat-sen University
chanwingkit@gmail.com

Jack W. K. Chan is an Associate Professor at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, and serves as the deputy secretary of the Social Policy Committee of the National Association of Sociology in China. He is interested in long-term care policy and education policy.

Stefan Kühner

Lingnan University
stefankuehner@ln.edu.hk

Stefan Kühner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy and an Affiliate Fellow of the Institute of Policy Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. His research interests centre on comparative and global social policy, emphasising poverty alleviation strategies, child and youth well-being, and the policies and politics of social development.

Aya Abe

Tokyo Metropolitan University
ayaabe@tmu.ac.jp

Aya Abe is a Professor at the Department of Human and Social Sciences and the Director of the Research Center for Child and Adolescent Poverty at the Tokyo Metropolitan University. Her research interests include measurement of poverty, child poverty and social policy.

Ijin Hong

National Taiwan University
ijinhong@hotmail.com

Ijin Hong is an Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University. Her research involves social policies in Europe and East Asia from a comparative perspective, and she is interested in welfare state theory, health and social services,  labour market policies, and migration issues.

Sung-Hee Lee

King’s College London
S.Lee@derby.ac.uk

Dr Sung-Hee Lee is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Derby, UK. Her research focuses on family policy, gender and care, using comparative policy analysis across East Asia, Europe and the UK. She holds a PhD in Social Policy from the University of Bath, UK.

Nan Yang

Liaoning University
nanyang@lnu.edu.cn

Nan Yang is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Administration, Liaoning University. Her research focuses on social policy, welfare state development, fertility and family policy, and social security in East Asia from a comparative perspective.

Xiaofang WU  (Flora)

South China Normal University
wxfang85@126.com

Flora Xiaofang WU is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at South China Normal University, China. Her research focuses on labor market and welfare regime.

Youqing Fan

Western Sydney University
Y.Fan@westernsydney.edu.au

Associate Professor Youqing Fan from Western Sydney University is an expert in social policy, ESG, and organizational behavior. His research focuses on sustainable HRM and employee wellbeing, exploring the integration of sustainability goals into workplace and supply chain management.

Tauchid Komara Yuda

Universitas Gadjah Mada
tauchidkomarayuda@ugm.ac.id

Tauchid Komara Yuda is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Development and Welfare at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. His research focuses on welfare regime change, historical institutionalism, and the development of process tracing methodology in comparative policy studies.