Shared Value: Creating Competitive Advantage

Ada Wong
Convenor & Director, The Good Lab

Ada Wong has led a varied career as solicitor, educator and social entrepreneur.  She is a staunch advocate of social innovation, creative education and cultural development.

Ada founded the Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture (HKICC), a unique non-profit organization whose mission is education innovation and a creative civil society.  Among other projects, HKICC founded Hong Kong’s only art high school, the HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity and Ada is the School’s supervisor.

In 2010, she also founded the Make A Difference (MaD) initiative (www.mad.asia), a continuing platform to groom the next generation of creative and innovative changemakers in Asia.  Ada’s latest social venture is The Good Lab (www.goodlab.hk), an inspiring social innovation hub for social entrepreneurship development in Hong Kong.

Ada was an elected member of the Urban Council and Wan Chai District Council between 1995 and 2008 with the last four years as Chairperson of the Wan Chai District Council.  Ada received her BA (Hons) from Pomona College, California, USA and M Ed from the University of Hong Kong.  She is an Honorary Fellow of Lingnan University and Hong Kong Institute of Education.