Alex Lo

Alex Lo is an environmental social scientist. He is recipient of the World Social Science Fellowship, Endeavour Research Fellowship, Universitas 21 Fellowship. Pete Hay Prize, Li Ka Shing Prize, Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Prizes, and Ada and Arthur Hill Prize. He was an invited plenary speaker at the International Conference on Regional Development (2016). He is an editorial board member of Environmental Values (White Horse Press) and Population and Environment (Springer), and Associate Editor of Geographical Research (Wiley), the journal of the Institute of Australian Geographers. He is the coordinator (convener) of the postgraduate programme on climate change science and policy.

Lo played a lead role in a number of successful external grant applications. His ongoing projects are supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, University Grants Committee (Hong Kong Government), the Regional Studies Association (UK), and Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund. He is commissioned by the Hong Kong Government’s Environment and Conservation Fund to assess the impacts of its flagship funding programme, and involved in a collaborative applied research project funded by Australia’s National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility. Previously he led several other research projects on climate change governance and politics, which were supported by and Australia’s Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia with co-funding from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Lo received his PhD from the Australian National University in 2011, followed by a permanent lectureship at the Griffith University in Australia, a position he held until 2015. Previously, he held a research appointment at Vienna, Austria, and coordinated environmental education projects for the Hong Kong Government. Since 2018, he has been and Adjunct Professor at the Guangzhou University, China. He is currently a Panel Member of a Belgian national research council (Research Foundation Flanders) under the Science and Technology of Constructions and the Built Environment panel (W&T9).