Professor Mok is the Vice-President and concurrently Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy of Lingnan University. Before joining Lingnan, he was the Vice President (Research and Development) and Chair Professor of Comparative Policy of The Hong Kong Institute of Education, and the Associate Dean and Professor of Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences of The University of Hong Kong. Prior to this, Professor Mok was appointed as the Founding Chair Professor in East Asian Studies and established the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

 
Professor Mok is no narrow disciplinary specialist, having worked creatively across the academic worlds of sociology, political science, and public and social policy, all while building up his wide knowledge of China and the region.
 
In addition, Professor Mok has published extensively in the fields of comparative education policy, comparative development and policy studies, and social development in contemporary China and East Asia. In particular, he has contributed to the field of social change and education policy in a variety of ways, not the least of which has been his leadership and entrepreneurial approach to the organisation of the field. His recent published works have focused on comparative social development and social policy responses in the Greater China region and East Asia. He is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Asian Public Policy (London: Routledge) and Asian Education and Development Studies (Emerald), and is a Book Series Editor for Routledge and Springer.
 
Alongside his research, Professor Mok also maintains a direct engagement with society. He identifies himself as a public intellectual who seeks to serve the wider community with impact. This service currently takes the form of participation in a number of government commissions and committees, and in projects such as the HKJC-funded promotion of ‘smart’ ageing in the local community.
 
In 2010, Professor Mok was appointed as Changjiang Chair Professor – a national distinguished chair professorship in social sciences – by the Ministry of Education, People’s Republic of China, and served at Zhejiang University, China. Appointed as an Honorary Professor at the University of Durham, UK, and a Visiting Chair Professor of South China University of Technology, China, he was also named as one of the Top 50 Scholars in University Governance Research in China by Changjiang Research Institute, China.
 
Research interests: comparative development and policy studies; comparative social policy and governance; comparative education policy
 
Research output: https://scholars.ln.edu.hk/en/persons/ka-ho-joshua-mok/publications/