Ian Holliday (; ; ; born 1960) is a scholar with expertise in British and Asian Government, particularly in relation to Myanmar. He is currently the Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) of

The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a public university, public research university in Pokfulam, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese by the London Missionary Society and formally established as t ...

. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in Social and Political Science at

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in 1982, before completing his Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in Politics at

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in 1989. He taught at

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(1990–99),

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, and

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(from 1999) before teaching at

the University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a public university, public research university in Pokfulam, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese by the London Missionary Society and formally established as t ...

(from 2006). He served as Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences of

for six years. He was appointed Vice-President of

in 2015.

Myanmar

Art

Holliday has been an advocate for assisting Burmese artists who have been repressed by the military government in Myanmar, in 2014 co-curating an art show for banned artists, as well as writing the book ''Painting Myanmar's Transition'' in 2021.

Books

Holliday is co-editor of the book ''Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar'' and of ''Painting Myanmar's Transition''. He is author of ''Burma Redux: Global Justice and the Quest for Political Reform in Myanmar'', and coauthor of ''Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar''. He is widely cited as an expert on Myanmar (Burma).

References

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