Professor Julia Tao Lai, Po-wah
BA MSW HKU, PhD East Anglia
Professor
Biography
Julia Tao is professor in the Department of Public and Social Administration. She is concurrently also the Chief-of-staff of the University. She took her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Hong Kong, and received her PhD from the University of East Anglia in the UK. Her PhD thesis "Moral Foundations of Welfare: A Comparative Study of Chinese Confucianism and Deontological Liberalism - A Case Study of Hong Kong" was awarded the Lord Bryce prize in 1992 for best dissertation by the Political Studies Association in the UK. She was a visiting fellow of St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University in 1999. She has written on Confucian ethics, bioethics, environmental governance, health care reform and comparative philosophy and has published in Journal of Applied Philosophy, Journal of Social Philosophy, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, and Journal of Philosophy East and West. Professor Tao was the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences from 1995-1999, the Founding Director of Governance iin Asia Research Centre (GARC) and the University's acting Vice-President (Development and External Relations) in 2009. She is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Feminist Bioethics and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.
China Bioethics, Trust and the Challenge of the Market (ed.), Springer, New York, USA, 1 August 2008.
'Between Market and State: Dilemmas of Environment Governance in China's Sulphur Dioxide Emission Trading System" , Environment and Planning C-Government and Policy , Vol. 27 (1), 2009, pp. 175-188 (with D Mah).
Governance for Harmony in Asia and Beyond, (co-ed.), Routledge, 2010.
Research interests
Ethics
Comparative philosophy
Environmental policy and healthcare policy
Teaching interests
Social and political philosophy
Bioethics and Environmental Ethics
Public Policy
Acting Vice-President (Development and External Relations), 1 January - 30 November 2009
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